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Recently acquired quite a steal of a deal on a 755C on feebay; nearly mint condition and a handful of accessories all in a high-end IBM carry case.

I installed a copy of Windows 95 on it and am in the process of getting the various hardware components set up. Once that has me stumped is the sound card. Windows 95 doesn't recognize it if I do a hardware scan and I can't seem to locate drivers for it online.

Anyone have some tips so I can get sound working?

Thanks for the link RBS.

I had, in fact, run across that article a couple days ago. The links to the downloads of the utility diskettes were dead but I was able to track them down on an enthusiast's FTP server. I did install them but they do not appear to have drivers, per-se, but rather a set of utilities to set options of the hardware.

I continued digging just now and was able to locate an version of the IBM PC driver matrix page referenced as containing drivers for these legacy systems on archive.org (http://web.archive.org/web/200202120002 ... E|9545|7BE); from there I was able to find the required driver file .exe name I was looking for (aftps140.exe) on another enthusiast's server (http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/ft ... s/mobiles/).

Now I have sound.

Out of curiosity, are you using the hard drive your 755C came with, or another one? I've been working on my 755C the last few days. Glad you got your audio working - looked around and somewhere it mentioned devices in config.sys, which I believe included Windows 95. My current problem is getting a CF card over 512MB to work in my machine so I can install 95 (and NT and etc).

It's the original 360 MB (IIRC) disk. I acquired it with a factory 3.1 install and wiped it for 95 after taking an image of the original install.

theterminator93 wrote:It's the original 360 MB (IIRC) disk. I acquired it with a factory 3.1 install and wiped it for 95 after taking an image of the original install.

I don't suppose you would be able to allow me to download the image of the factory install? Do you know if it came with the demo program as well? I actually have a semi-original install for the 360CE and both original installs for the 701 series. Still trying to find these for the 755's.

I'll put it up on my web server this afternoon and PM you a link. I can't recall what "stuff" was on it (I know it had MS Office), but it did have a few ThinkPad related items in a separate program group in Program Manager. I'm not sure how intact the original install is since the computer came to me from the original owners - a utility company in New England - and things were obviously added to it.

Thank you. If you're also interested, I have preloads of the 701C/CS (both DX2 and DX4). I actually pasted a dropbox link in another thread several months back. I don't remember where my 360CE came from, but it had the same situation - other stuff was added to it.