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[yazsey]

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 colours, small fonts. When i tried this with the TP i got only interesting geometrical patterns on screen.
Sooo.. plz could someone make me wiser about the 760EL video card used in this 12.2" TFT beastie. My learning curve is at the point where i have only just found out that F1 gets you into easy-setup (yuk!).. but how do you get into any kind of useful setup area to find hardware info and change power settings for example..
This is my first post, how'm i doin?

[whizkid]

I believe your machine came with IBM DOS and its INTERSRV software. It allows you to transfer files over serial or parallel in DOS. I think that software is available in FreeDOS now. Check FreeDOS.org to be sure.

Another way to transfer files is to format the drive in the 760EL, move it to another machine and copy files there. Put the drive back in the EL and run setup from there. I've used both methods and found Intersrv to be much more convenient.

The EasySetup using F1 is the only access normal users have to the BIOS.

[yazsey]

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 laplink for windows which involves just 2 floppies. although this is pre win95/98 in origin the version i have has w95 support and therefore enables you to see fat32 partitions on the w95 computer youre transferring files from. ive managed to get the display working at last with just one of the display driver options in w311 setup (vga 640 x 480 v3.0) and ive just transferred 127mb of files from the win98 folder on the w98 cd on the remote machine. i could have copied to a fat32 partition first but laplink sees the cd drive anyway along with all the other drives and drive letters are identical too.
thinking about it now, no matter which dos client/server program i used, although it would mean less stuff to install than my current method, i would have to create a fat16 partition and copy files to that before i could start to transfer, in order for fat16 dos to be able to see where to get the w98 install files from.
onyway.. on this "easy-setup" being the only access allowed, i cant believe this is for real.. just how are you gonna be able to change all the various power conservation settings, amongst other things? anybody know something on this? after all the name "easy-setup" implies there must be an "advanced-setup" facility too, or howabout "ordinary-setup" because changing power settings is ermm.. not rocket science is it?

perspective; i have two 760EL with 12.2"tft and two 760EL with the older 11.5 dsdn screens. i also have one 560 with tft and three 560 with dsdn, oh and an old 755C that works good except the charging circuitry does not seem to be talking to the battery for some reason - battery stays cool.

[whizkid]

thinking about it now, no matter which dos client/server program i used, although it would mean less stuff to install than my current method, i would have to create a fat16 partition and copy files to that before i could start to transfer, in order for fat16 dos to be able to see where to get the w98 install files from.
onyway.. on this "easy-setup" being the only access allowed, i cant believe this is for real.. just how are you gonna be able to change all the various power conservation settings, amongst other things? anybody know something on this? after all the name "easy-setup" implies there must be an "advanced-setup" facility too, or howabout "ordinary-setup" because changing power settings is ermm.. not rocket science is it?

Transferring files is a bit of a pain, but there's another, faster method: Networking. I've never tried getting DOS networking going, though. Be my guest!

As for the power settings, IBM provided DOS, OS/2 and Windows software to change those settings. Others have written software that works with Linux too. IBM calls theirs the Configuration Utility.

[yazsey]

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 time about battery revival, oh and maybe start another one about swapping a dstn screen for tft.

[whizkid]

Software and Device Drivers - ThinkPad 760, 765 series

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-59734

The Configuration Utility for Windows 95 (and maybe others) has the DOS version too.

[yazsey]

thnx, ive actually ended up here >

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... BOD-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 trying to get Laplink for Dos so i can boot from that on floppy (or maybe install is necessary first?) and transfer w98 install files down a parallel cable to an empty d: partition and install to an empty c: partition. having to install dos, w311 and llw first then connect to a source PC is ver lengthy job each time i want to install w98. unless i get a cd drive working on a parallel cable of course - no knowledge on how easy that might be though.

[Nolonemo]

yazsey, you have PM