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Hi, just picked up a 770ED at a garage sale. It has all manuals, a cd drive, floppy drive, power cord, and is very clean. But, it also needs a hard drive. I was hoping to find a T series, but this is what I found so i bought it.

I would like to fix / upgrade this for my wife, but after reading this thread I still don't know what hard drive to find for it or how to even upgrade. Could someone point me in the right direction? I have built desktops, but have never played with a laptop.

Also, can I load XP on this?

Thanks for your time,
Rodger

rdkng07 wrote: I would like to fix / upgrade this for my wife, but after reading this thread I still don't know what hard drive to find for it or how to even upgrade. Could someone point me in the right direction? I have built desktops, but have never played with a laptop.

You can use any notebook hard drive as long it is a ATA-6 drive.

Example i my 770Z i have a 80gb 5,400rpm fujitsu drive.

Also, can I load XP on this?

Yes! Just to make it run fine upgrade the ram to at least 256mb.

rdkng07 wrote:Could someone point me in the right direction?

If you haven't already found these pages on IBM's web site, you may want to bookmark them for future reference:

Product information - ThinkPad 770ED

Hardware Maintenance Manual Thinkpad 770

Hey! rdkng07 look what is on sale right now

Thanks for the replies.

OK, turning on the laptop I get errors 161, and 163. I set the date and restart, and get errors 163, 173. I changed the date and time last night but it was back to 2000 and 00:00:00 this morning.

The battery light is blinking orange and it reads 0% on the indicator with a number 1 on it.

I did manage to hold F1 and get into the configuration or EZ-set up area last night. Can’t get in this morning for some reason. If I hit restart from this area it will boot to windows but stops there. The windows 98 sign will show but it hangs there and the hard drive stops.

So it seems that the watch battery is bad and I need a hard drive. The hard drive in it is a 6G, I really don’t need one any bigger than that but I can’t find a small hard drive that is an ATA-6. Would an ATA-3 or 4 work?

Thanks,
Rodger

rdkng07 wrote: So it seems that the watch battery is bad and I need a hard drive. The hard drive in it is a 6G, I really don’t need one any bigger than that but I can’t find a small hard drive that is an ATA-6. Would an ATA-3 or 4 work?

Yes get a new CMOS battery and did you have time to check the link to an auction selling the cd drive a 20gb hardrive and a 128mb pc100 ram? That is just what you need.

Yes get a new CMOS battery and did you have time to check the link to an auction selling the cd drive a 20gb hardrive and a 128mb pc100 ram? That is just what you need.

yeah that's a great deal, I'd be all over that if I had a paypal account.

Hi cmarti

I looked at the deal but I have a cd and from my understanding the ram would not work. I pulled and looked and I have pc66.

Thanks,
Rodger

rdkng07 wrote:Hi cmarti

I looked at the deal but I have a cd and from my understanding the ram would not work. I pulled and looked and I have pc66.

Thanks,
Rodger

Rodger, a pc100 ram will work fine in your machine, example of that is that before i did the upgrade of my 770z to PIII i was using a pc133 256 chip.

In fact i have two for sale.