Losing my patience with Win95 and Thinkpad 380XD

[Tasurinchi]

Hi!

Wasn't sure if posting my problem in this thread or in the Windows one, but since I see the later has more issues dealing with XP I decided to post here (note to mods: feel free to move it in case it's not appropriate to have it here).

I have a 380XD (2635-8A0, upgraded to 64MB RAM) with Win95 installed. Everything works fine but the PCMCIA card. I can't get the drivers installed

I've downloaded the drivers from the Lenovo website (Card Soft PCMCIA driver for Windows 95 v5.32.25). Installation runs without issues, but I had to modify the config.sys file (E.g: changing the "device=xxx" lines by "devicehigh=xxx), otherwise Win95 will not boot. After these changes the boot procedure runs well, but then I get the following message:

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CardWizard requires SSPCCRDX.VXD to operate properly. SSPCCRDX.VXD is not loaded

I tried then the DOS drivers from the Lenovo Website, but it won't work either. It brings an error message about Windows protection error and won't boot.

Google didn't brought any useful help apart from uninstall and install again, which I tried about 3x...

Can anybody help with this mixture of ancient hardware & ancient software? I really had to dig deep in my memory to bring up the old DOS knowledge back...

Thanks in advance!

T.

[ajkula66]

I'm not sure whether my answer will suit your needs, but...

Moving to W2K would be my approach, unless you *must* run W95 because of some ancient and well-loved software that only works there. I've used the given OS on similar hardware and was quite pleased, back in the days.

As always, YMMV.

[Tasurinchi]

Moving to W2K would be my approach, unless you *must* run W95

Thanks George for the post. Since this is a fun project my intention was to re-install the original software the Thinkpad was delivered with. I'm not really going to use the 380XD for any serious work, I was thinking in using it for playing old Windows games only

Having LAN access is also not a must, I was trying to do a trip back in time with the old IE explorer surfing some old 80's style web sites I found in a recent article.

[gdrunk]

Just out of interest, what does your autoexec.bat and config.sys look like?