HELP with an old 770 U31

[dduck1934]

I have an old U31 ThinkPad 770 Model Number 9548 and i had to format the harddrive recently and reinstall the OS.

I put windows 98 back on it, and I need to put the ThinkPad Configuration Utility on it, but I dont know which version from the website I need. I have tried the following files.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.ws ... g=en&cc=US

This is for a friend.

Help

dduck

[sickofit]

Here ya go..Easiest way for correct drivers....Just make sure you're looking at your model # 770 at the top....

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... SHY-3PGT93

Later...

Greg St.L

Edit"Also make sure you install the supplement files first after doing a fresh install...gets rid of the IDE problem in Device Manager"

[dduck1934]

I really appreciate the link. I am running into other problems. When I try to install some software like Microsoft Office or something, it will run through the setup partially and then unexpectedly restart the laptop. I dont know if it is a heat issue or some kind of corruption somewhere, but I cant seem to install any software.

I tried copying the files and install them from the Harddrive but it does the same thing. starts then restarts during the setup.

Any ideas?

thanks
dduck1934

[sickofit]

Maybe a bad stick of RAM....Try removing the ones under the door on the bottom,or one at a time,and try again to load software

There is a memory test in easy setup....hold F1 starting up,go into test....memory test takes QUITE a while...

Hope this helps...

Greg St.L

[dduck1934]

I took out the stick of ram and the software installed just fine. I also was able to run the windows updates and everything. I ran the Memory tests from the BIOS and it came out fine.

This might be a dumb question, but does it matter which memory slot the memory stick has to be in? I tried the memory stick into each slot on the bottom and I didnt notice anything different except I got the same errors I was getting before with the memory stick in place.

So it looks like the client needs to buy another stick of ram.

Again thanks sickofit.

dduck1934

[SeanM]

This might be a dumb question, but does it matter which memory slot the memory stick has to be in?

In general, no. It wouldn't cause the problem you're seeing anyway.

However, to be complete, the 770 would take EDO or SDRAM dimms. IF you used an EDO dimm, and IF it were the 64M dimm, it had to go in a particular slot to recognize all 64M. Otherwise it would only see 32M of the 64M.