IBM 600 Thinkpad

[compbrat]

Need a little help.

I have an old IBM 600 Thinkpad which my company gave to me as they are upgrading.

The specs are below.

I wiped the drive and installed Windows 98SE. The system operates fine. However, the laptop display will only display 640X480 resolution, and the viewable area only occupies the center 1/3 of the total screen. It is clearly a vid driver problem.

I've toyed around with the various drivers on the Win98 CD, but nothing seems to work. Is it the driver? Am I missing a file? Is there something I can download to fix this?

Under Device Manager I have two items appearing with the dreaded EXCLAMATION MARK highlighted in yellow.

The first...Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller

The second....Unknown Device...which appears under Other Devices.

IBM 600 Thinkpad
Pentium II
32MB RAM
CD-ROM
External Floppy Disk Drive (not USB, not serial...I'm not sure what the formal name for this short/flat pin connector is)

Thanks, folks.

 

[HannibalX]

98SE doesn't have the drivers, you need to go to the IBM support page and download them. Just use XP or Win2k and your set.

 

[compbrat]

XP won't load. NOT enough resources.

2K I don't have.

The point of this is that the kid wants to play legacy games. This is a PERFECT choice for legacy games like Mech2.

I tried the IBM site. I can't find anything.

 

[HannibalX]

XP won't load? Not enough HD space? Not enough memory?

I have ran XP on 600es for years.