From: Edward Mendelson (edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 12:07:32 EST
That's a headache I'm all too familiar with, but it's almost certainly
solvable. Using the Fn-F1 setup while Windows is running, assign audio
to IRQ7 and the printer port to IRQ5. (Yes, I know, I know - those
aren't the standard assignments, but that seems to be what IBM had in
mind for the defaults for the 701). Reboot and use Windows Device
Manager to change the assignments in the device manager to match the
ones you assigned, if necessary.
Edward Mendelson
----- Original Message -----
From: "ron" <ronjulian_at_email.com>
To: "Think pad list" <thinkpad_at_stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:40 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] [Fwd: 701 woes]
>
> I have 2 701's. I like the little door stops. But I am having a bad
time
> with the floppy printer port with both of them.
>
> During boot up, While windoze is loading, Fn F1 brings up the cmos.
> There it shows that the "Parallel/Diskette port is assigned a port,
IRQ
> Etc.
>
> After Windoze loads and is up and running, If you go back into cmos,
the
> port is Disabled. If you shut down Windoze and go to a dos prompt, the
> port is still disabled. If you reboot, the port is on until Windoze
> loads and turns it off.
>
> In dos, if I hot swap/install the FDD and run a Dir on A:, it fires up
> and gives me a Dir. BUT, The cmos still shows that the port is still
> disabled. But I can not access a printer.
>
> All that to ask this, How do I get the port to stay on?
> Ron.
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