Thinkpad T21

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surgo · #1 Post by **surgo** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:18 pm

Hi,

I have Thinkpad T21 (from Europe) and on this machine is not recovery partition with Windows 98 SE and I have not IBM installation CD. I have original Microsoft Windows 98 SE. After I install it on T21 and add all drivers Ultrabay 2000 has bad icon in tray (has red cross on CD-ROM icon) and If I remo DVD-ROM and insert Floppy drive computer freeze. Drivers I download from http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... IGR-4JSQHB

Ultrabay driver from http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-41987

At last chance I install CMD Ultra DMA IDE driver for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 but nothing happen.

Pleas help me ..

I will be happy if anyone send me or upload on some share sevice screens of Device manager with expanded nodes. I thing that important is IDE controller driver.

Thanks

yorgos · #2 Post by **yorgos** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:06 am

Hi Surgo,
I have the same machine and I am very happy with it. I will not tell you what to do but I will tell what I did and after that it’s up to you to decide what to do!

I installed windows XP SP2 (windows 98, sucks) on it and then the ThinkPad Utility for the Drivers to work. It works fine but a bit slow. Keep in mind that it’s an old machine so that’s normal. As alternative you could use Windows 2000.

After that I installed Ubuntu Linux as dual boot! Linux is performing much faster and all hardware is detected!
Now I have two operating systems installed!

In order to do all that I created separate partitions on the hard drive during windows installation. One for windows, one for Linux and one common as shared for mp3’s, photos and… etc.

For simple student work T21 is perfect!

My next step will be to upgrade the Hard Drive with a bigger and faster.

Hot swap is not possible for Ultra bay at least with an old BIOS version. I very recently upgraded my BIOS but did not have a chance to check it.

Good luck and marry Christmas.

Yorgos!

surgo · #3 Post by **surgo** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:39 pm

Hi,

thank you! This notebook is for one women, not for me. I have Sony VAIO. She had Win98 (original from IBM) and it was been very very slow. I reinstall it but I wasn't make device manager screen. Now ultra bay don't work without restart, before I reinslall it all fork perfect

Second problem is that in device manager i have one unknown device. All drivers I install.

On my machine I have Linux - Debian it is good but in work I must work on WinXP.

Yes T21 is good notebook.

Surgo

yorgos · #4 Post by **yorgos** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:52 pm

Dear Surgo,

Did you do a manual installation on the drivers? It would be much better to install the ThinkVantage utility and let it do the installation of the drivers for you, automatically!
This way you should not have any unknown devises!

If this is the way you did it, well just format it and redo the whole process again.

That’s as far I can go for you mate!

Cheers,
George

Website · #5 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:07 pm

I believe that the Software Installer (Thinkvantage) that is being referred to won't work on the T21 with Win98. Software installer will only work on systems with Win2K and WinXP.

Surgo, can you open your device manager, and create an image of it, so that we can see what is missing?

surgo · #6 Post by **surgo** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:48 pm

Yes Software Installer (Thinkvantage) don't run on Win98SE. I make some screen shots ...

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9015 ... gerkm4.jpg

and I upload PDF file with system info

http://trans3.wz.cz/devices.pdf

(print to file from device manager) but on T21 I have Czech Win98SE. I hope that it isn't problem for you.

Thank you

Website · #7 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:42 pm

OK, since I had a little bit if a problem figuring out some of the items in your language, I am giving you a link to my Device Manager (T21 with Winxp).

Use the process of elimination to see what you have, and what is left over. I think that it is the ACPI/Battery, but to be honest...I just can't concentrate right now. The image has my device manager open over your photo, so that you can compare them side by side.

Link

pianowizard · #8 Post by **pianowizard** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:26 pm

I can't read Czech but can tell you that when I install Windows 2000 or 98SE on Thinkpads, the device that's most frequently not automatically installed is the "IBM PM device", which is for power management, and none of the items shown in the screenshot resembles that.

Msmax · #9 Post by **Msmax** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:13 am

I have installed T20 notebook and the only problem was with the ACPI driver.

File is called "79ku03ww.exe".

MSmax

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