robg, I think the problem could be that the bios setup cannot detect your cdrom drive properly. To verify this, you can go the bios setup, then go into the startup menu, then the power on menu and check if you see a + sign before the cdrom. If the + sign is not there, it means that your cdrom drive ...

I wanted to upgrade one of my thinkpad 390E by changing to a 390X system board. In this way, I will be able to use a Pentium 3 cpu for the notebook. If I simply replace it with a 390X system board, will there be any incompatibilities with my 13.3" lcd and other parts of the 390E? Has anyone tried up...

Thanks for your helpful information. I have just upgraded the harddisk to 10Gb and it works. My aunt has a 10Gb image tank lying around and I dissembled it to get the 10Gb IBM hardisk to use for my thinkpad. Out of curiousity, I used the utility hwinfo32 to check on the system. Hwinfo32 detects that...

I am intending to buy a new harddisk for my 390x. From the IBM website, I found that the maximum size of the harddisk that comes with the 390x is 6.4 and 12Gb. However, the minimum size for a new notebook harddisk nowadays is usually 20 to 40Gb. Has anyone tried a larger harddisk size on the 390x an...