RE: [Thinkpad] 570 Recovery

Robert,

Thanks for your reply. And a big thanks to all who replied with help. I
seem to have solved the problem with a pre-load disk from my A20p. I used
it to recover the system and then loaded the necessary drivers and wala! I
haven't found any difficulties yet and everything works as it
should. Sometimes you get lucky.

Again, my thanks to all who chimed in to help. This list is the best bunch
of people around.

Cheers, Bill Lueders.

At 07:52 AM 10/3/03, you wrote:

>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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