From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Fri Dec 03 1999 - 13:24:26 EST
>
>I've got a TP560 2640-10U (72M, 2G, P133) running Win
>95 OSR2 with a Motorola Mariner combo 28.8 modem and
>ethernet PC card.
>
>The last couple of weeks ole "Stinky" has been weirding
>out on me bigtime, so I finally broke down and reinstalled
>W95 and all the other bloatware. Amazing, how much much
>more sprightly the machine is now. If you've been running
>95 for a while, I urge you to try the occasional reinstall.
>
>Problem is, I can't make the friggin thing suspend any more.
>Start->Suspend, Fn-F4 and the Stop button on the PC Card
>(PCMCIA) Properties control panel all freeze the machine
>but good.
I've had some problems suspending my 701 (also Windows 95a) but
not recently. I use an IBM PCMCIA Home and Away card for
ethernet, and an IBM PCMCIA 33.6 modem for telecommunications.
Each works perfectly, but I can't use them at the same time
because the dongle of the Home and Away would need to be in the
same spot as the butterfly keyboard (if in the top PCMCIA slot)
or the dongle of the modem (if in the bottom PCMCIA slot).
Anyway, they work fine, and at the moment "Suspend" works fine,
too.
>
>I've heard there can be problems suspending laptops with
>PC card ethernet cards under 95,
Have you tried reinstalling the Service Pack and all of the bug
fixes? There is a site (maybe more than one site, but not at
Microsoft!), which tells you which ones to do and in what order.
That's one reason I'm loathe to reinstall. It takes longer to
do the bug fixes than the operating system, because frequently
you have to reboot after each fix. There "ought to be" a batch
file that reboots for you ...
FWIW, I use DUN 1.3.
>but what bugs me is
>that Suspend used to work before I reinstalled everything.
>I've tried installing different versions of the Motorola drivers,
>and fiddling with various settings, but all to no avail. Has
>anybody out there experienced the same thing? I'm pretty
>much at my wit's end now.
>
-- cheers Jonathan
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