Re: Windows 2000 and TP760ED

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From: James Lai (orialv21_at_mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Oct 03 1999 - 18:06:04 EDT

RC2 is already out and happily using it on my TP600. ( PII300, 5.1G, 196MB
ram )

If your laptop is not NT certified, there is not guarantee that if will even
run W2k.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Morrow <penzance_at_icanect.net>
To: Paul Khoury <pkhoury_at_loop.com>
Cc: ThinkPad List <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 and TP760ED

> Paul...
> wait for the RC-2..
> the mwave that you and i can get right now is not, IMO, correct for either
w2000 or NT..
>
>
>
> Paul Khoury wrote:
>
> > I've run into a problem with NT. This might be more of a software issue
than
> > hardware, but anyways - In NT 4 (which I'm running now, and it runs
quite well),
> > however (since I'm using a small hard drive now), I use it to play MP3's
in my car
> > quite a bit, and with the HD being only 1.4GB, I run some apps off my
TP750
> > (through the network one way or the other).
> >
> > Only problem is when I suspend, I lose that connectivity.
> >
> > In Windows 2000 however, everything works *except* for sound. It
install's it's own
> > mwave drivers. If I try to install over it, it complains. I've tried
using the NT4 drivers
> > with minimul success (only sound during boot), and Win98 drivers with
less success.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions, or would I be better off waiting for
Win 2K
> > Release Candidate 2 (which I'll be obtaining from a seminar on Oct. 12)?
Or
> > is this machine not too suitable for Win 2K?
> >
> > On a side note, I upgraded to 80MB, and despite Win 2K asking for a P166
minimum,
> > it runs quite well on my machine otherwise.
> >
> > Paul
>
> --
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>
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or i just don't care..
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