First Post! Couple of ?'s

[mr2nr]

Hi I have just purchased my fifth T42 and thought I should join this forum .

I love these laptops as I don't have many issues and for 4-6 years old and holding up like they do you really can't go wrong (like you can buying a netbook ). My latest T42 was a 15" model and it didn't state it in the auction and I had a HDD from a friend who had a 14" T42. Well thinking I could just slap it in it would work I was disappointed when it never would see the HDD. But upon further investigation the 15" has a deeper HD pocket so my caddy was preventing it from seating the pins . I would think these would have adjustment holes but couldn't find any so I just removed the cover and it slid in and worked just like it should. But I plan on getting the correct caddy.

So this leads to the first question is... Can you use a 14" HDD caddy in a 15" T42?

I still have to find the correct Wireless card driver for the T42 2379 DXU. I have been through them all and to no avail. I didn't uninstall every time though so that might be causing the issue. Anyways I have the IBM recovery disk which i will try or I also have a copy of Windows 7.

So my second question is... Will the IBM recovery disks resolve more driver issues than Windows 7 or what wireless XP driver should I be focusing on for a 2379 DXU?

Thanks for any help guys. I have already used a lot of info searching.

[ajkula66]

Welcome to the forum!

Hard drive caddies are the same between 14" and 15" T4x machines, but the covers are not. I'd strongly suggest getting one, they're less than $10 on fleabay.

Your wireless driver:

http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... wc05ww.zip

After downloading it you must go into C>Drivers>Win>Wlanint and run the setup file from there.

Hope this helps.

[mr2nr]

Thanks for the driver. It didn't install saying it was a later version of the one that was installed!!??? So apparently I had installed the new version which didn't work. So I manually loaded the driver on the file you gave me and it works. Talk about a pain . Thanks again!

I am still interested in how many T42 users are using Windows 7 with 512 of Ram and if it is even advisable?

[ajkula66]

I wouldn't run W7 without 1.5 GB at the very least.

[mr2nr]

I wouldn't run W7 without 1.5 GB at the very least.

Any operating system that needs more than 1GB I don't need . I really wish Google would put something out. With 4 different smart phone Operating systems do you think we could have more than three for PC's!!!!