RE: [Thinkpad] 570 Recovery

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:53:58 -0400, Slammed wrote:

Sorry this is a bit late on the reply, I've been really ill the last few days.

>HI All,
>I have a 570e (2644-6AU) that I recently purchased. I have installed a new
>40Gig drive and now need to load a operating system. I chose Win 98 SE as
>I had a copy and that was the native load. Getting it to work has been a
>real trial. I have all the drivers and loads from IBM but getting them to
>all work together hasn't gone all that well. At this point I will say that
>it works barely!

What seems to be happening? I have that exact same model of machine personally and at work (3 of that model at work with various ultrabase
configurations). I'm more than willing to help as much as I can (sorry I don't have access to any preload CD's).

>I am looking for a recovery disk for this machine. I will take what ever
>you have. I would like the original Win 98 load if someone has it and
>would make me a copy. If you only have the W2000 recovery I will go with
>that. I just want this thing to work like it should with all the drivers
>loaded.

>Doing this by hand is a real drag. I just went to the IBM site and it
>isn't working again. I can't find the device driver matrix they used to

http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-46VTSZ

There is the device driver matrix for the 570/570E. The trick is to make sure you get the support files and
install those too. They have registry entries that are required. Those are the first things I generally load.

>have available either. These are really good machines but the work you
>have to do to get it to run is something else. Maybe I should go with
>linux? Nah!

I love my 570E. I take just the laptop itself to the library or to a coffee house to work on it and it's nice to have something
so light.

I hope this helps if you needed more help.

Robert

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Received on Fri Oct 3 09:02:10 2003