From: Robert J. Karp (rkarp_at_mailbag.com)
Date: Thu Oct 22 1998 - 19:00:44 EDT
I wish I could sit with you and observe your troubles. My OSR2 installation
on my 770E was the most rock solid installation I've ever had (but I
installed clean) ... not even the slightest of troubles (same box as yours
sans internal modem as I had the MPEG card and DVD installed)). I tried to
assist you with your IR problem by sharing with you what worked for me but,
again, it's difficult to do not being there to see in real-time. About the
only thing I can suggest to you is to re-format and install clean. Severe,
I know, but it isn't an inherent problem with Win95 and it isn't a hardware
design issue since, again, my OSR2 installation was rock stable (I wish
Win98 were so).
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken <kenzo_at_free-music.com>
To: Ray <ray_at_gallup.net>; turgut kalfaoglu <turgut_at_egenet.com.tr>
Cc: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 3:34 PM
Subject: [TPALL] So many problems with the laptop
>Ray <ray_at_gallup.net> wrote:
>>But most of us do not have failures. Most Thinkpad owners have very good
>>luck... and for the most part... a failure in one machine is corrected
>>before it becomes common to all machines... IBM must read this list...
>
>>On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, turgut kalfaoglu wrote:
>>|Just out of curiosity; I am impressed with the failures people have; just
>exactly how do you use
>>|your machine? On this list, I have seen cracked hinges, cracked displays,
>cracked cases!
>
>I have had incessant problems with my TP 770ED, and Windows 95 OSR2.
>Although I've pretty much blamed Windows every time, nonetheless it IS the
>OS the machine shipped with, and it's pretty frustrating just how many
>problems I've had. Still unresolved:
>- Haven't gotten the IR ports to work;
>- Can't get original MPEG decoder to work (and therefore presumably can't
>play DVD's);
>- Experience blue screen crash of "VPIC" usually when I close the display
>(suspend when closed is disabled) when the screen has already turned off
>from idle state, and then after recovering from that a) I cannot hibernate,
>and b) when next I restart the machine, Windows will start up in 640x480
>mode instead of 1024x768 mode;
>- Built-in modem dial-tone detection doesn't work (had to put a messy fix
>into the registry, which slows the dialing process down);
>- Built-in modem speaker won't turn off using normal Windows setttings (had
>to add "M0" to initialization string, which is annoying because I'll have
>to go there and remove it to turn the speaker back on).
>
>Also, does anyone know why the machine has to do so much work (hard drive
>access, other applications slowed down) every time I open and close the
>display? (Again, I have the "suspend when closed" option off.)
>
>I'd be having a lot more troubles if it weren't for the helpful people on
>this list, which I think speaks even worse for IBM. And, here I still am
>with problems the list hasn't helped me with, either.
>
>Scared to try Linux, for the lack of full hardware support available there.
>
>Are these experiences typical? Do owners of non-IBM laptops have more or
>fewer problems?
>
>Ken
>- kenzo_at_free-music.com
>- - http://free-music.com/ken/resume
>
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