Thanks for the quick reply. This forum and its posters have been a huge help.

Thanks for the advice! I have found a PCMCIA cd-rom from panasonic that hooks up to a PCMCIA II card. Is the PCMCIA II slot a 16 bit or 32 bit slot? It seems like it would be 16 bit because according to IBM's hardware mantinance guide the 760c has two PCMCIA II slots. Thanks again for the help.

Cool, thanks for your help.

Thanks for the tip about SCSI drives, I didnt even think of that. Do you know by chance if I could load windows 98 using a SCSI card and drive if I have a win98 boot disk?

Hello all, I am new to the forum and have just purchased a Thinkpad 760c laptop. I have read through a great deal of posts on this forum and they have been extreamly helpful to me. I was hoping to find an external CD-ROM drive that I could plug into one of the PCMCIA slots. I know my PCMCIA slots ar...

I don't know very much about laptops but my guess would be that the processor is overheating. I have had several pc's that acted just like yours is, and what I found was that the heat sink for the processor was not in very good contact with the processor, and thus was overheating. I hope this helps.