From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sun Jan 17 1999 - 02:04:45 EST
Warren..
there is a V.90 upgrade out now..
what happened to your 770ED just might be related to the bios upgrade you did..
unless you follow instructions precisely, it can trash the system board flash
memory..
Warren Tan Wing Wah wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied! I sent it back to IBM and they repaired it is
> less than 18 hours! The motherboard and processor were replaced.
>
> While I must admit that the service was good, I still can't phantom how a
> machine as ridiculously expensive as this can just fail after a few days. I
> mean, even my cheap Acers didn't do this to me. Or am I just the unlucky
> one with the one-machine-in-a-million failure rate?
>
> Two other issues I wish to discuss with the list:
>
> 1. I'm no fan of Windows, but I've grown to use the "start" button on
> keyboards quite a lot. Imagine my surprise to see the Thinkpad without the
> start button on the keyboard! I'm using Windows 98 now, any ideas how I can
> reprogram the left "ctrl" key to become the "start" key?
>
> 2. The modem is horrible. It's not my phone line, because both my desktop
> and my Xircom 56k modem using the same phone line can achieve 46000bps
> rates. My el expensivo Thinkpad's modem, shame on it, has only been up to
> 32000 max. Any suggestions on improving it? The v.90 upgrade didn't help.
> Or are we all befalled with this same fate?
>
> Thanks, happy computing!
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