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Hello,

I'm trying to turn a TP760E into a digital photo frame. My 'OS' is just a DOS 6.22 bootdisk loaded on the HDD. I basically have everything working except it goes to sleep. I have been unable to find any info on how to disable this feature. I've looked in the bios (even upgraded it) and have not been able to find anything that would allow me to adjust the power management settings. BIOS states that the Power Management is version 1.40, don't know if this means anything. Anyone have any suggestions on how to stop this machine from going to sleep?

Thanks

I don't think it's BIOS related. On my TP360 (approximately the vintage of your 760E), it came with a DOS version of the "Thinkpad features program." This DOS program lets you set power features, sound, display, etc from the DOS prompt.

I suspect the power settings of your 760E can be set via a DOS program like this, too. I don't know where you'd find that program any more... I don't know if the version that came with my 360 would work on yours...?? (I could send you a copy)

I did a search for DOS based power management utility and found power.exe. I copied this to c:\ and added a line to my autoexec which seems to start it, but it is still going to sleep. I'll keep looking but I would appreciate any help anyone could offer.

Thanks

I did some poking around and I believe you might solve this problem by downloading the DOS Utility Program PS2.EXE. It appears to be available within the package at the following link:

Configuration utility for DOS

This appears to be the program that leoblob uses on the 360.

Thanks alot RK. In my stumblings thru the web I found mention of PS2 but was unable to find a valid link until I checked back here. Now I can figure this little utility out and hopefully get it to do what I want.

Thanks again

Hi Wj,
I don't quite understand what you mean , " just a digital photo frame", does this mean you have no windows / linux ?? and it just runs photos' allday long ? if it is true, is there a tutorial or guide on how to do that, I want to learn how to do this, thank you in advance

Hi E,

There are hundreds of tutorials out there, just google "diy digital photo frame". Some are bare bones like mine, some are connected wireless wifi to servers and you can load pictures to them without touching them. Some even go online to download local weather periodically.

The one I'm building now is a TP 760E with only a 3.5" drive, no CD Drive. I found an old DOS 6.22 boot disk I had and fdisked and formatted one large (all the HDD) primary DOS partition. I loaded files from the boot disk to c:\ such as config, autoexec, and edit (config loads when you format, and I may have a few other files that I loaded as I needed them, but you'll definitely need edit and autoexec).
I'm using lxpic as my photo viewer and it actually works pretty good. I have a statement in the autoexec calling lxpic on startup with a few switches telling it to do a slideshow, fit screen, and wait 2 minutes before next picture.
I used a laplink with FastLynx 3.3 to load pictures from my XP to the photo frame (115Kps).
Then I had to stop it from sleeping, see above threads. I just loaded PS2 last night and added a few lines in my autoexec to stop the HDD and display from snoozing. I started it this morning and hopefully when I go home for lunch it will still be running.

Good Luck

Ok, I've got PS2.exe loaded. I'm trying to figure out what commands stop the laptop from hibernating. I've created the HFile and have PS2 commands in the autoexec (PS2 disk 00, PS2 HTimer 00, PS2 LCd 00, PS2 POwer 00).
Do I need to create the HFile with these commands (my understanding is that you create the HFile and then do the switches in the autoexec. Is this right or wrong. Any info on setting this up would be greatly appreciated.

I believe that that is correct (insert PS2.EXE commands inside autoexec.bat). I don't know about creating the HFile but if it is needed, then all you need to do is make sure that the file resides in one of the directories on your PATH, presumably the same directory where you have stored the PS2.EXE program.

Just can't seem to stop the hibernation. I was wondering if there is a way to create a loop in the autoexec that would some how reset the count down for the hibernation?