It was PCDr Win - it was already installed. Regarding the other OS - it appears to be dual boot with two separate installations of WinXP. The sound card works fine in the other one. Is there some way of copying over the drivers from the one to the other? That would save me the trouble of having to r...

I have been following your suggestions - I am just thinking ahead. PCDoctor showed errors in the sound drivers - it could not play wav or midi. Next weird thing - before contacting this board, I tried something else. On the start up screen, it showed 2 OS choices: Win XP and Windows. We normally use...

Another question: If I do need to run the Recovery CD's - how do I do that? I seem to recall that just booting from them does not work. Is there a procedure to follow?

Dan

The machine appears clean and the sound card appears ok, it is just that there are no drivers! Other suggestions?

Thanks,
Dan

I am not sure how it started, but my wife's T30 will not do anything other than a beep. I checked the device drivers and there are a series of yellow ! by all the audio drivers. I followed the troubleshooter's directions and uninstalled then tried to reinstall one of the drivers, but it just tells m...

Solved! Please see "Post subject: Rapid Recovery Error" under T4x for details.

Dan

Ha! Fixed! Thank you to the people who replied via the forum and via pm. They directed me to the possibility that it might not be the RnR disc, but a consequence of the wipe system used. My employer required the use of the DoD-standard wipe, which apparently wipes out the MBR! So the Recovery CD cou...

I am looking for the "IBM Rescue and Recovery with Rapid Restore" CD for a T42. I purchased the set from IBM and my first use resulted in an initialization error with the restore function. A member on the T42 group recommended that I post here asking if someone could burn a copy of theirs and and se...

The HD was completely wiped according the DoD standards. So I guess it must be a defective CD

Is it possible to get just that utility to start the process? I have all the other disks.

Dan

I tried posting this on the T42 board, but maybe it should be here.... I had to wipe out my T42 and went to use the recovery cd's. It loads up to the Rapid Restore control screen. However, when I click on Restore factory contents, it goes through the warning screens and the 'accept these conditions'...