bah, someone donated an ibm thinkpad 770x to a department in the college of engineering and they asked me if i could install winxp on it, office xp, etc.
its an ok machine, p2 300mhz with 320 megs of ram.
the frikkin problem is that there's not enough resources to run all the hardware that came in the laptop + 2 lousy extra devices (cdrom + network card).
neither of these, not an A drive comes with the laptop, and is required. when i put both in, there are multiple IRQ conflicts. when i take the network card out and leave only the cdrom in, there are no resource conflicts, but the sound device is still not recognized unless i manually disable and enable the device. i've even tried changing the resource settings around, but no go.
damn that ibm for making their laptops without enough resources for even two addons!@!()#*$&@)(&$)@#(&%@)%(&!#@
its an ok machine, p2 300mhz with 320 megs of ram.
the frikkin problem is that there's not enough resources to run all the hardware that came in the laptop + 2 lousy extra devices (cdrom + network card).
neither of these, not an A drive comes with the laptop, and is required. when i put both in, there are multiple IRQ conflicts. when i take the network card out and leave only the cdrom in, there are no resource conflicts, but the sound device is still not recognized unless i manually disable and enable the device. i've even tried changing the resource settings around, but no go.
damn that ibm for making their laptops without enough resources for even two addons!@!()#*$&@)(&$)@#(&%@)%(&!#@
