Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:02:01 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 70CT - Replacment hard drive? - Installing Win98se
- MP3
Player
From: "Jon DuQueno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Success :P
Terrific! (so far...)
Seems the problem was caused by using XP to format the primary partition in
Fat32. I tired re-formatting the primary partition in DOS (Fat16) on the
libretto then copying the files over in desktop and win 98 installed fine
:)
Think it was a problem with installing Win98 to a Fat32 partition. BTW I
checked in fdisk and the primary DOS partition was always set to active.
Interesting, as previously you complained about not being able to, "switch
to the c: drive... error "Invalid drive specification." That sure sounded
like XP had done it on that occasion:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15809.html
I've installed the Toshiba utils, got floppy drive working and most
importantly Doom 2 with sound :P
Did you really get Doom to run with sound enabled? I had the darnest time
with that on my 70 years back. As I've written, I hadn't bothered to
install the Libretto sound drivers, as the ones from 98SE seemed to be
working for everything else fine. But I couldn't get sound enabled in DOS
until I finally installed them.
Tried playing some MP3's in Windows media player 6 and was disappointed
with
the choppy playback.
Wow... It's so odd, but par for computers, that this happens for some people
and not for others. I've never had problems with choppy audio playback from
MP3s... well, unless a bunch of apps were getting loaded at boot, and
sapping system resources. Antivirus apps are the biggest culprits. Try
running Start > Run > MSCONFIG and seeing if there's anything in there you
can disable. Or do an Ctrl-Alt-Del, and stop everything but 'Explorer' ...
and you can leave 'SysTray'. If that doesn't free up enought resources to
play MP3s, I'm not sure were to go from there. Oh... do you have the 16MB
RAM upgrade to boost the L70 to 32MB RAM?
Also tried installing winamp 3 but it won't play any
MP3's... What media player is best? Should I download Windows Media 9 or
try
one of the older versions?
The WMP in W98SE should work fine. Check your system resources and disable
things as described above, and try it again. Winamp 3.x was a hog.
Download the last version Winamp 5 that was released before they stopped
development on it which was: winamp504_full.exe It went back to more of the
the Winamp 2 model. You could try older versions of Winamp if that fails.
Is it worth installing the latest Toshiba sound and video drivers? The
windows 98se default drivers seem up to date anyhow...
I don't think the Lib video drivers are necessary. And if you're getting
sound in DOS from DOOM, I don't think you need to install the Lib audio
drivers.
And one last thing, I can't find the little cable for the network card so
may have to buy another (I want windows updates, file transfer and web
browsing) does this look ok?
www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=31879&doy=19m10
"Compliant with PCMCIA 16-bit PC Card Standard" << Looks good. It's not a
32 bit cardbus card.
Matt
Wanted: 110 motherboard or bare bones 110 system
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