I have an R51 computer for Work. I got my charger for my IBM A31p mixed up with the work charger because they looked essentially the same. We had a problem with charging the R51 until we swapped chargers. Now all is fine.

Thomas

To All, What is the function of the internal connector pictured in the following photo. Background. The connector was broken off and I cemented it back on so as to avoid the heat of solder. I felt the connection was good but it has been found the sound cuts out when a cd is played. Is the connector ...

Dear Thinkpad Experts, My Thinkpad 770Z display is dark. I could see faint shadows of the program windows and but full illumination does not occur. I tested the thinkpad on an external display and it works when connected to a moniter. At first I was able to get the lcd screen to light by putting it ...

Greetings... Why would a novice consider taking two junk A31 computers apart and cross breeding them into a whole complete A31p, if they didn't know what they were doing.... The only answer seems like... to risk some money and try to learn something :roll: I talked to IBM and they said they would be...

I have an A31p that I am told the Video Controller Adapter is bad. Is this a part that I can replace without full dissassembly? Where is it located? and if the replacment of the Video Controller Adapter did require disassembly is there a technical service manual available for this machine on the web...

We loaded the original 95 recovery CD for the 770 and at the point just after the cd drivers were installed just before you agree to the license agreement for windows 95, we stuck in a Recovery CD for a 770X (because the 770X CD had a newer load of Windows 98. The recovery completed successfully and...

If you have it working please send me a few images of your device manager especially the Sound Video and Game Controlers section. Can you take some snagit snap shots with SnagiT and send them to me. We need specifics of what the IDE controllers are on your load We need to know what Mpeg driver your ...

This thread is dead and we will not return to it. Recommend others not waste as much time trying to get IBM 770's to play DVD's with out simply reloading the original software on a separate partition and then loading a new operating system on a second partition and making the machine dual boot. In t...

We created a new post: Black DVD Player Screen, Ibm 770 WinSE Has got us stumped And followed through with the problem for a while. With Lack of support for Windows 98SE and No help for this aging computer from IBM were out of luck. This thread is dead and we will not return to it. Recommend others ...

Its not looking good. The problem is that this is a very specific machine and a very specific issue. Its like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Could be a file or something in the custom load from the manufacturer IBM that enabled the 770 to play DVD's IBM is not available to comment since they...

The plot thickens as the following were done to try to get more than a black screen when DVD's are played on this Thinkpad 770 W98SE Load. As you recall Mediamatics DVD Player and its update are being used as the application along with an EVA or Mpeg card for hardware support. The latest an Greatest...

Good Ideas. Were using the IBM CD1M Mpeg-2 Decoder Card driver for our mpeg driver. Is that the same one your using. It was loaded again at the end after all the Mediamatics DVD express software and its updates were loaded. On a side note************ We had a recovery CD for Windows 95 but it carved...

Windows 98Se was loaded to a blank hard drive using IBM instructions that included the suplemental files. The APM registry change and the Monitor registry change were also made right after installation. The system is an 770 thinkpad is IBM 95491AU with a 233 Mhz processor and 224 meg of ram. Then th...

We had to start over again... because we were loading the IBM DVD Decoder Card this was the driver ment for the 770Z on our IBM 770. DVD symptoms are a black screen during playback. The hard disk flickers like the DVD player is working and the light on the drive flashes like the DVD is reading. We h...

The DVD Drive played prior to the reload of SE, we have tried several store bought DVD's. We don't have any copied DVD's on hand to try on this machine. Were downloading a trial version of Power DVD to try and would like to update the firmware on the CD/DVD drive. Do you know how to look up the firm...

We are having trouble getting the DVD playback for the 770 up and running. We used MPEG driver IV for Windows 98/2000 - Thinkpad 770 for the driver for our MPEG card. this is Document ID - DSHY-46FRPA http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46FRPA The symptoms of the failed playback ar...

Loading with the 98 supplemental files as you said and following IBM instructions on their website resloved the hard disk controller issue and many others just like you said. We are finished loading all the drivers and the media-matics dvd player. Although we loaded all the drivers for the dvd playb...

We looked at the Supplemental files diskette and thought it was for the 770E and above. We will start over and reload using the supplemental files diskette and see what happens. Thank you.

Dear Technician, Thankyou for taking a look at our question. We will return to the question frequently through out the day so your not wasting your time. We started with a boot disk from boot disk.com to get cd support and to format the HD. After which time we ran the 98SE CD and installed the Opera...

My CPU Registers 40C Operating Temperature during normal operation. When the Sim2 Game is played the CPU Temperature rises to 67C and that is with a fan blowing on the back of the A31p Laptop at the place on the back where the case is luvered to suppily the insides with air. Without the fan I get gr...

Simms2 is now playing but It seems necessary to put a fan blowing on the back of the laptop to keep it very cool. Without the fan the temperatures were reaching 140F and faults and graphics glitches were occuring. Apparently Sims2 really tests what the A31 is made of. No more problems Summary of wha...

In Windows XP go to the following place... Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Managment 1) Initialize the Disk your working with 2) Format the disk You should be ready to use it then. If you have a service contract with IBM I have in the past found their technical support ve...

Display developed lines while a program called Dr. DivX was encoding a video. Looks very strange we almost need a picture to describe this but It now seems like the video is screwed up. Newest driver has been enstalled problem developed while computer was sitting idle. Could be the video issues go f...

In addition to the graphics corruption with Sims2 my computer also had a problem with Office 2003 and display corruption. I elected to switch to Office 2000 and have not had a problem since. It may be that when the hardware is stressed, it overheats and that the display issues arrise. The weather he...

When Sims2 was loaded for my daughter, the game ran fine for a while and then I would get display corruption. Kind of like patterns and lines on the screen. A reboot corrects the problem. At no other time do I have this problem. The makers of Sims2 Electronic Arts site recommend shutting down all pr...

A31p 2Ghz/1Gig Memory XPpro- started to hang on log off and shut down. The problem was not every time but intermittant. Often if A31p was shut down right away after boot up, it would shut down just fine. The following trouble shooting was conducted.. (Its a long read so you can skip to the bottom if...

Purchase price off ebay was about $65 shipped to the door for a 6 gig hard drive that fit smoothly into my 760C. Format and Win98SE install not a problem.

According to the specs on the detailed specifications page for the 760C model 9546 type U28. The computer will take is 40mb and no more. Be sure not to order 144pin memory any memory for this computer that has a key or knotch cut into the memory simm. This model takes 88 pin memory as follows: 8 bui...

The 760C was a rare beast. It uses 88 pin memory and a different dimm card. When I tried to install the dimm card used for the 760E/ED/EL/ELD it simply physically doesn't fit. The thickness of the card with the memory installed is too big to press down into the space in the back of the computer mean...

IBM has portable drive bays available the plug into the pc card slot. I don't know if this will help but you can find them on ebay. After you use it on this machine you may be able to keep it handy for future jobs so you can get your money's worth. You may even have a drive from another thinkpad tha...