Re: I just got a "rig" to play some old Win 3.1/95 and DOS stuff. But I am having a few problems with sound and DOS. (PI

Posted on 2021-02-09, 02:54

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by jholt0147

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First off, the Thinkpads, whilst fabulous machines (no kidding, I have an old 385ED, 600X and a modern T440P) they are most definitely not gaming machines. They were sold as business machines first and foremost, to running Windows (or sometimes OS/2 LOL) and had windows-compatible sound hardware. I …

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Mad experiments with NT4

Posted on 2021-02-07, 05:01

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by jholt0147

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All tests are being done on a Thinkpad 760-ED with parts from an XL and EL. The Specs are Pentium 166MHZ MMX CPU 64MB EDO 16GB CF as primary storage. 8x CDROM 1.44MB 3.5 External Floppy Drive My first experiment is one I've done many times before, though this time it required more due to OnTrack. #1 …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-02-07, 04:30

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Just another small update I now have NT4 booting from FAT32. It required a lot of hocus pocus with partition magic and ontrack and of read/write fat32 nt4 driver. I now have OSR2 MSDOS 7.1 along side nt4 on my single 16GB FAT32 partition. A stable windows environment, and pure DOS for games. Also it …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-02-06, 03:54

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by jholt0147

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The adapter came from a 2.1 GB hard drive + caddy IBM FRU 82H8489. Now I don't know if all 2.1gb drives have the same adapter installed though

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-02-06, 00:58

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by jholt0147

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Sure the CF to IDE adapter I'm using is https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y2N2SVD/ 16GB CF card https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HM9849Z I brought a used copy of OnTrack from ebay version 9.57 the IBM part number is EC D43122 61 v0 T Using the Ontrack software was pretty straight forward. Was …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-02-05, 04:58

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Minor update, replaced 4GB CF with 16GB one. I had to use a Ontrack as BIOS is limited to 8GB or so, but as a bonus I can now boot from cdrom because of it.

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-02-02, 15:41

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I'm considering a CPU upgrade i have the choice between a 150MHz non mmx and 166mhz mmx. would either give me a enough a bump to run FF7 a little more smoothly. I'm pretty much at min requirements which are 133MHz 32MB and 2MB video card direct3d optional Edit: So I went ahead and bought a 166MHz …

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Re: Does Active Desktop adds forward and back buttons to Windows NT4 shell?

Posted on 2021-02-01, 23:15

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by jholt0147

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chinny22 wrote on 2021-02-01, 09:56: You have the go back 1 level icon (the folder with the up arrow) that's almost the same as back. […] Show full quote You have the go back 1 level icon (the folder with the up arrow) that's almost the same as back. I have to ask why does your nt4 screenshot have …

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Re: Computer Reset Build + Full Height Hard Drive Showcase

Posted on 2021-02-01, 19:17

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by jholt0147

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I wish there was a place even remotely like Computer Reset here. In my part of the woods (NW Ohio) finding anything older than C2D let alone 386/486 is impossible.

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Re: Does Active Desktop adds forward and back buttons to Windows NT4 shell?

Posted on 2021-01-31, 19:57

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by jholt0147

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The Windows Desktop Update for NT4/Win95 does add forward and back buttons. Why anyone would want the webby desktop is beyond me it slows NT4 and 95 down and makes them both way more unstable. I edit win95C's setuppp.inf to prevent it from being installed among other things. I suggest before letting …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-01-31, 19:32

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Just some more pictures with ED attached to 3546. I was going to with Office 95 but Lotus Suite seemed more appropriate. Decided to quad boot so it has DOS 6.22+WFW311/Win95 OSR 2.5 + unofficial updates\NT4.0 Workstation\OS/2 Warp 4.52 though NT4 might be on its way out if I can't figure its problem …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-01-31, 11:48

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So some arrivals. Yesterday the 3546, external floppy, CF to PCMCIA, and gameport adapter all arrived. Dock II This was the first thing arrive. It packed extremely well. It is considerably bigger than the 3545. I plug it in and connect the thinkpad and it worked but horrible speaker buzzing. I was …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-01-31, 01:18

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I'm using a Lucent WaveLAN Silver 802.11b for networking. Probably to single best investment I've made it has drivers DOS/w311 to XP and Vista may even have support still Interesting! Does it let you connect to current WPA2, etc. wi-fi networks? under windows 98 and up with a third party client it …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-01-31, 00:47

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emendelson wrote on 2021-01-30, 22:15: Consider putting an ISA network card in the Dock I - I use it to go online from Windows NT 4.0 in a ThinkPad 755XL. I'm using a Lucent WaveLAN Silver 802.11b for networking. Probably to single best investment I've made it has drivers DOS/w311 to XP and Vista …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-01-28, 12:29

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by jholt0147

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I picked up a few more upgrades besides a working LCD for the ED. Most of the photos are from the auctions as most of it is in transit.

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-01-25, 02:11

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by jholt0147

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I couldn't find the IBM drivers so I'm using the cardsoft drivers and thanks for the pointers I was getting occassional lockups I'm guessing the I=c800-CFFF line might be the reason now Config.sys DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=C:\UMBPCI\UMBPCI.SYS /I=E000-EFFF DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF /Q DEVICE …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-01-25, 00:31

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I actually figured out how to get rid of the pause and swap by giving the wavelan driver the settings manually rather than letting the card services auto assign FIguring out the free memory regions was greatly helped with the use of umbchk.exe that comes with umbpci. With this config 624K free. If …

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Neomagic MagicMedia 256AV, NM2200 Sound blaster emulation

Posted on 2021-01-21, 00:31

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by jholt0147

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I have a Dell Latitude CPi-a 366XT and it runs early windows 9x games well enough and dos games in windows run okay. the drivers I have for windows 98 say they are MagicMedia 256AV, NM2200 with sb emulation. I checked the box to enable it but it doesn't seem to enable sound under DOS is there …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-01-20, 21:51

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2021-01-20, 20:36: Where did you find NEW LCD panels. I am looking for some too for a 755. Ebay, either buying a ugly one with a working screen. or i've had real good luck on untested parts only laptops of this era

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-01-20, 20:11

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by jholt0147

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So just a update. The screen I ordered for the 760 ended up being the wrong one. My fault not taking it apart and checking the model number and instead used information from thinkwiki.org. on the upside I have managed to get dos 7.10 (striped myself from a win98se install) and windows 3.11 wfw …

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