Thinkpads Forum

Hi

I know this is touched on in some other threads, but has anyone successfully got a Win ME setup on a 760?

It seems that MWAVE upsets WinME, but wondered if there was a workround other than changing the soundcard to an ESS1688 jobbie...

Cheers

Unfortunatly this is not going to be the reply you are looking for, Windows ME, was sort of MS bass Tard Child if you know what I mean. I used it once and although I never had any problems, it was considered terrible.

Driver support for ME was also a shambles, but if you have not already tried using drivers for 98 or even 95 then that would be step A. For a more stable laptop though, you might want to consider win2000, especially if you plan on adding some extra PCMCIA cards, or even a Digital Camera.

Hope this helps a bit.

...sadly W2k has Cardbus driver issues on the 760 that were unresolved my MS.

It is the need for better USB support albeit through a USB-PCMCIA interface that I need. Even though I have not got a clean install (I have to disable the MWave sound for it to boot), it already sees my large array of Thumb drives straight out the box, wheras W98 only sees one specific 64Mb drive and even if I put an identical 2nd model in, it won't see that!

I am working towards using the Midiport for MIDI-ing and so far W98 seems to have a bug in its *.idf file structure for the Tpad...

I have to suggest something else to try and help, based on your first post, you are wondering if (correct me if I am wrong) you can change the internal sound card that came with your thinkpad?

Check out lenovo's Website, go to support tab and fill in the specs for your laptop, and in there give you a list of all removable stuff for your laptop, either that, or give me your model number, and I can look for you.

furiousmonkey wrote:you can change the internal sound card that came with your thinkpad?

You can change it, back in the day we would build 760XL's and 760XD's out of spare parts often using 760ED's and EL's for donors.
The first 760 I ever bought was 90MHz 760CD I ended 'upgrading' to a P120 (what a PITA)

That is seriously a really cool thing. I am so glad I got a thinkpad.

Did you find any part numbers from the lenovo site? I browsed that site for both of my thinkpads, to come up with a list of things I thought I could upgrade, and then I asked on the forum.

Just found something really interesting.

http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~przemy ... 760xd.html

Its a DIY 760XD webpage, pu together buy a german guy, who translated some of the page.

not with the ess card though me is up to 45% faster than 2k/xp
with triones chipset drivers,and is 100% bullet proof too
all drivers loaded without a glitch even on 64mb ram.
if you got the mwave undoubtably you will encounter problems unless you
disable the audio in 95/98 device manager + or ibm utility dos manager before the upgrade to me ,then leave it disabled for good in ,otherwise you will corrupt
the boot (acts like a bad virus)the ess upgrade was the best thing i done on 76x.
see below qc compatabilty.