[Thinkpad] Re: IBM selling PC operations including laptops Thinkpad Digest, Vol 15, Issue 6

From: Laurence Spiegel <tahiti444-thinkpad_at_yahoo.com> Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 10:30:56 EST · > ATTACHMENT part 3.1 message/rfc822

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Peter Crighton
> ATTACHMENT part 3.3 message/rfc822 
From: Peter Crighton 
CC: 
To: Peter Crighton 
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:04:15 +0000
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] CDROM missing / Hard Disk controller code 10 /
compatibility mode
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:23:06 +0000, you wrote:
>I have lost access to the CDROM and the hard disk is in compatibility
>mode.
>
>I've checked everything I can find on Microsoft
>(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;130179)
>relating to this and can't find the answer.
>
>I have recently bought a docking station and installed the drivers for
>that - not sure if the problem occurred at the same time.
>
>My laptop is a T20 running Windows 98SE.
>
>I had this same problem on a 760XD laptop and forget how I solved it
>(might have been a case of removing a program!).
>
>Has anyone come across this and fixed it? Here's as much info as I can
>think of:
>
>There are two Standard Bus Mastering IDE Hard Disk Controllers. I have
>removed and re-installed them to no avail. They are there and working
>when on the docking station and the CD is accessible. Off the docking
>station they both have a yellow exclamation mark and report "not
>present, not working properly or not have all the drivers installed
>(Code 10)". The driver is ESDI_506.pdr.
>
>Drive C and D (two partitions on the one hard disk fitted) are
>reporting using MSDOS compatibility mode filing system.
>
>Any help much appreciated!
Solved - but not sure why?
I tried one last time to let Windows detect new hardware (I found a
note that this is how I'd sorted it before). 
I answered no it's not in the list after the hardware were not found
in the plug and play search. Then the hardware was found in the
non-plug and play (despite already being present in the device
manager).
Halfway through the detection/installation of drivers the computer
re-booted (without warning) and now it's all working.
If I do another scan for new hardware there is still an IDE disk
controller in the list - but I'm going to leave it there for fear of
breaking the installation again!
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From: "Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS)" 
CC: aklist04@comcast.net
To: thinkpad@stderr.org
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:33:32 -0500 
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] synchronizing time on a 560x (Win98 Lite)
Andrew:
While there's a million of these programs, I use tclock. The author's site
is in Japanese but if you google it, you'll find lots of places that have
it. Latest version is 2.2.8. Does everything you want (shows day, date,
time, synchs, can be a different color/size), is free, and runs on
W95/98/NT/2000/XP. (Although there is a tclocklite for XP I just found, the
regular tclock works fine on XP for me.)
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> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 05:50:58 -0500
> From: Andrew in Ann Arbor 
> Subject: [Thinkpad] synchronizing time on a 560x (Win98 Lite)
> To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> 
> My poor old 560x has the classic Win98 clock bug, at the moment the 
> clock in the tray is about 5 hours slow so I've either got to 
> fix it or 
> turn it off.
> Although I've never been shy about switching off features in Win98 I 
> think that even a stripped down system (800 Mb C: flash drive, Win98 
> lite) should be able to perform basic wristwatch functions.
> Can anyone recommend a time synchronization utility that will keep me 
> more in line with everyone else's clocks?
> For that matter is there a way to display the date in the tray (for 
> those really confusing weeks)
> 
> Thanks to all.
> -- 
> Andrew in Ann Arbor
> 
> ATTACHMENT part 3.5 message/rfc822 
From: "Debian Linux" 
To: 
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:40:25 -0500
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] hARD dRIVE aPAPTER - cABLE pOSITION
A general guideline for any HDD is that the red/positive power lead will
always be next to pin#1 of the data cable (designated on the controller card
and/or by a red stripe in the ribbon cable).
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From: Dan K9ZF 
CC: aklist04@comcast.net, thinkpad@stderr.org
To: "Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS)" 
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:47:51 -0500
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] synchronizing time on a 560x (Win98 Lite)
I've used NmeaTime and Dimension 4, both worked fine for me.
Good luck,
Dan
[proud owner of a 560x with many miles....]
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From: "Julian Thomas" 
To: thinkpad@stderr.org
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:11:33 -0500
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] hARD dRIVE aPAPTER - cABLE pOSITION
In , on
12/02/04 
at 04:40 PM, "Debian Linux" 
typed:
>A general guideline for any HDD is that the red/positive power lead will
>always be next to pin#1 of the data cable (designated on the controller
>card and/or by a red stripe in the ribbon cable).
This may not be true for SATA drives.
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> ATTACHMENT part 3.8 message/rfc822 
From: "bill at thinkpads dot com" 
CC: thinkpad@stderr.org
To: "Rob Bell" , "Jim Fleegens" 
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:43:32 -0500
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad model lines
rob got it right except the X40 does NOT take an optical drive without the
base..
it DOES support a USB optical drive..
up to and including a DVD writer..
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Bell" 
To: "Jim Fleegens" 
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad model lines
> The A was always the flagship, packed with the newest technology and not
> skimping anywhere. Large screen, often 3-spindles, big drives, etc.
> However, they A31p is the latest iteration and that's been out a while.
> There really hasn't been a new flagship to take the place for a while.
> the A is essentially the successor to the 770.
>
> R is kind of like an A series... fairly large with a full-size ultrabay,
> usually large screens. It just isn't quiet as 'cutting edge' as the A
> is (was?). It saves some cost by using more plastic and slightly less
> capable technology.
>
> The T series is the thin & light corporate laptop. Not so small as to
> sacrifice many features like the X, but usually with a step down in
> screen size from the A and R. The T is typically very cutting edge in
> technology except maybe for the video card which is good but not
> bleeding edge. The T is the successor to the 600 series.
>
> The G series is to be avoided unless it will sit on a desk most of the
> time. It is bulky and not leading edge. Kind of the 'budget' corporate
> desktop replacement.
>
> The X is small & light, leaving out some features and reducing
> everything - like screen size, disk space, etc. I don't think it has
> the ability to have an optical drive in it without a separate media
> slice, which is somewhat like a mini dock.
>
> I'm sure others will chime in and add to my info or give their own
> opinion on it.
>
> Later,
> Rob
>
>
> Jim Fleegens wrote:
>
> > I'd appreciate if one or two people could give me a very simple/brief
summary of the different TP lines. I've shopped on the IBM site and pulled
up a map that compared them, but I never really understood. Actually, I can
be more specific: I think the G is the cheapest and bulkiest, and the X is
the smallest and lightest--where I'm stuck is, what is the difference
between the R and the T. (I have a recently acquired A31P, and so I also
wonder, in this scheme, where would the A fit in, or what is it's
replacement. (and I also still use my 600e.))
> >
> > Thanks. J.
>
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> ATTACHMENT part 3.9 message/rfc822 
From: "Matt" 
CC: 
To: "Thinkpad list" 
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:58:31 -0600
Subject: [Thinkpad] I.B.M. Said to Put Its PC Business on the Market
Just read this article in the Friday's New York Times.
They're selling the whole pc hardware division:
(Snipped)
"While I.B.M. long ago ceded the lead in the personal computer market to
Dell and Hewlett-Packard so it could focus instead on the more lucrative
corporate server and computer services business, a sale would nonetheless
bring the end of an era in an industry that it helped invent. The sale,
likely to be in the $1 billion to $2 billion range, is expected to include
the entire range of desktop, laptop and notebook computers made by I.B.M."
"According to the people close to the negotiations, I.B.M. is in serious
discussions with Lenovo, China's largest maker of personal computers, and at
least one other potential buyer for the unit. Lenovo was formerly known as
Legend."
"in the most recent quarter, I.B.M. ranked a distant third in worldwide PC
sales, with 5.6 percent of the market, according to Gartner, the market
research firm. Dell was the leader with 16.8 percent of the world market,
and Hewlett-Packard, which has absorbed Compaq Computer, had 15 percent."
"To trim costs, I.B.M. has steadily retreated from the manufacture of its
PC's. In January 2002, it sold its desktop PC manufacturing operations in
the Untied States and Europe to Sanmina-SCI, based in San Jose, Calif.
I.B.M. now confines its role in PC's to design and product development out
of its offices in Raleigh, N.C., with all the I.B.M.-brand desktop or
notebook computers made by contract manufacturers around the world."
> ATTACHMENT part 3.10 message/rfc822 
From: chris bayley 
CC: thinkpad@stderr.org
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:02:22 +0100
Subject: [Thinkpad] A31 backlight problem
The backlight on my A31 (2652-D5A) is/has failed.
The backlight illuminates with a reddish hue for a few seconds (5-10) 
after power on then flickers for a second and dies, the display remains 
barely visible.
I read a couple of other posts which finger either the inverter or the 
CCFL tubes (i.e the LCD panel)
I think the problem may be the inverter. I have measured the voltage 
during power on and this far exceeds 500Vac for the time the backlight 
is on and then falls to 0V.
Can anyone tell me the approximate operating voltage for the backlight ? 
( By my very limited understanding is should be about 180Vac ? )
Alternatively if in fact the backlight tubes are dead/dying is this then 
the behavior one would expect of a healthy inverter ?
TIA
Chris
> ATTACHMENT part 3.11 message/rfc822 
From: Daniel Burwitz 
CC: Daniel Burwitz 
To: thinkpad@stderr.org
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:10:47 +0100
Subject: [Thinkpad] A30/p Embedded Controller Update = Danger,
Will Robinson!
Hi All
It seems, I am having the same trouble as described in 
Matt's article on the ThinkPad mailing list 
http://illuminati.stderr.org/pipermail/thinkpad/2004-August/012775.html
After upgrading the Embedded Controller Program of my 
ThinkPad non-IBM batteries get rejected.
Please, could you advise me on how to downgrade the 
ECP again?
I tried to downgrade. But the diskette utility refuses 
to work, because there is "no fully charged battery". 
How to work-around this, other than by using an IBM 
battery?
I am using the ThinkPad Model 2652 D5G. The label on 
the bottom calls it A30. But IBM's driver download 
site identifies it as A31.
BIOS: 1.08 - 1GET36WW
Embedded Controller Program: Updated to 1.03 - 
1GHT16WW from 1.00 - 1GHT13WW
ECP 1.03 contains also the Enhanced battery control, 
same as your ECP 1.06
>From the release notes:
This release supports the following system:
- ThinkPad A31p 2653-Hxx/Jxx/Lxx/Nxx
- ThinkPad 
A31 2652-Axx/Bxx/Cxx/Dxx/Exx/Jxx/Kxx/Mxx, 2654-Cxx
... snip ...
<1.02 - 1GHT15WW>
-(Fix) Fixed the unexpected system restart during 
standby/resume
operation, caused by fault recognition of a 
non-existing
secondary battery.
-(New) Enhancement of the battery control.
1.03 - 1GHT16WW>
-(Fix) Fixed problems introduced by the previous 
release, 1.02 -
1GHT15WW.
- Password prompt appears twice even if the 
Power on
password and the Hard disk drive 
Password are identical.
- Fail to resume after suspend.
The replacement battery is from a company called 2-power.
Thanks a lot in advance
Daniel
________________________________________________________
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Senior Consulting Engineer
Adobe Systems Europe Ltd.
Tel: +44 1603 226739 Fax: +44 1603 226800
e-mail: dburwitz@adobe.com
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