From: TD (ouatic_at_texas.net)
Date: Thu Dec 31 1998 - 12:10:56 EST
Can you email me the 1.11 drivers please? The ftp site still lists it on
their index....but it is NOT there to download.
-T-
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert J. Karp <rkarp_at_mailbag.com>
To: Bruce Markowitz <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net>
Cc: ThinkPad Users Group <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Thursday, December 31, 1998 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: 770ED DVD problem
>No, I'm sorry, but that isn't sound advice. Those drivers won't support
>Win98. The only drivers suitable are the ones IBM labeled version 1.11.
>They are still available on IBM's FTP site. The file name is Vftpdw95.exe.
>But, all of this misses the point. IBM's technical support has gotten so
>unreliable that I fear they cannot be trusted for anything anymore. I
>studied those drivers dated 12/28/98 and I swear to you that they DO NOT
>support the 770/E/ED family. Not at all. They will work only with the
>9397DVD chip which is different than the 9397 chip inside the 770/E/ED. I
>cannot even begin to believe this rediculous behavior on IBM's part because
>it comes after I (and, presumably, others) alerted IBM to the fact that the
>version 1.12 drivers posted previously did not support the 770/E/ED. They
>pulled them off of their web site (but they're still hanging around on
their
>FTP site for some poor unsuspecting soul). You'd think that the next
>version they posted would work but, alas, they're not even close. This is
a
>serious and very disturbing error. And, it comes right on the heels of the
>version 1.27 BIOS slip up where the links for that actually lead to the
>TP600 BIOS files. Not good!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Markowitz <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net>
>To: TD <ouatic_at_texas.net>; Thinkpad List <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
>Date: Thursday, December 31, 1998 9:28 AM
>Subject: Re: 770ED DVD problem
>
>
>>Try loading the W95 video drivers that came with the recovery disk. VPM is
>>an overlay issue, usually cured by a different set of drivers.
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: TD <ouatic_at_texas.net>
>>To: Thinkpad List <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
>>Date: Thursday, December 31, 1998 6:55 AM
>>Subject: 770ED DVD problem
>>
>>
>>>Has anyone tried the latest Video Features IV drivers (ver 1.30) for
>Win98?
>>>After doing a full format and reinstall of Win98 and upgrading to this
>>>driver and the latest video capture driver III....my DVD player won't
work
>>>anymore.
>>>
>>>I keep getting multiple error messages:
>>>
>>>1. "Unable to Locate VPM Provider."
>>>2. MPEGVIDEO Device could not load the files. Abort!
>>>
>>>Can someone please email me the last Video Features drivers for the 770ED
>>>that definitely works with the DVD player? I checked the IBM web site
and
>>>ftp site, but they had already taken the old drivers off. Thanks.
>>>
>>>-T-
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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