gah! so much happening here all of a sudden after such a long time without a reply *_* mm.. thinks :idea: i do have 4 dstn 560's and 1 tft 560 so i could take the keyboard surrounds of off one of each type to confirm how the plugs compare.. if necessary to settle this dispute.. the reason i have a s...

k, thnx for the reassurance. ima still try to pickup spares laptops off of ebay or screens by themselves but ebay uk hasnt turned up much yet and it jus seem 2b low-life with sad listings so far but i guess ill grab me a tft screen or two soon.

thnx, ive actually ended up here > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=BBOD-3MANBD and am downloading uttpfw95.exe "Configuration utility for Windows 95/98 - ThinkPad 365, 380, 560, 760" which is a weighty 5.4mb and the assoc text file uttpfw95.txt. im still ...

if i could pick up a 12.2" tft screen from a later 560 in good condition, would it be just a straight swap job to replace a dstn screen on an older model 560, does anyfolk kno? i have a 133 with tft and four 100's with dstn. this stuff was bought to sell on at a small profit, but id rather try and s...

i have five 560's one with battery missing when bought. the other four seem to have good batts - surprised? yes i was, after my experience with nimh batts on five compaq machines i bought. did all 560's have li-ion from new? am thinking of trying to either buy a couple of dead batteries cheap off of...

re: IBM calls theirs the Configuration Utility.. i guess ill have to search for this on somewhere like DriverGuide, or does someone have a link they could let us have? thanks for your help whizz, its taken me so long to get back here to acknowledge your reply.. im now going to start a new post, this...

thnx whizkid for your input, i will look at the freedos site. i agree its better not having to mess with moving hdd's around but i not sure how stressful it might be trying to make friends with intersrv.exe when laplink is so user friendly - although as i said i dont have the dos version, only lapli...

Alas.. i have no laplink for dos so im having to install laplink for windows (3.11) so i can transfer w98 install files and therefore get round the problem of having no cd on a 760EL. Ive done it on a compaq LTE5130 without any problems having found out the display needed setting as 800 x 600, 256 c...