RE: TP750 / TP755CX : TV tuner

["Aaron W. Brown" <aaron@designcraft.com>]

Hello Joe,

 The "System Program Service Diskette" is a bios/firmware update for a 750.
You can (and should) ignore it.  Your bios revision (already installed in
the flash ROM on your 755CX) is probably the most recent, (v1.44?) and this
is
not the problem.  The TV tuner uses no software to function.  No OS needs to
boot either.
    I have an IBM TV tuner working in a TFT 755CD.  I don't know for sure if
the TV Tuner works in your machine,  and I have doubts.  Your TFT screen
syncs up at 800x600 resolution, right?  Mine only goes to 640x480.  What
does the tuner do when you turn it on and switch it to display on the TFT?
Did you receive instructions/manual for the TV tuner?  I doubt you'd be able
to even push the right buttons to see the TV screen without instructions as
the buttons are not labeled.  Maybe you'll get a smaller (640x480) picture,
who knows?
   Let me know if you want the instructions.

Hope it works,
Aaron.



>Hi,
>
>   Does anyone know if the TV tuner for the ThinkPad 750
>   can be made to work in the ThinkPad 755CX (SVGA, TFT) ?
>
>   I recently got such a tuner.  It comes with a diskette
>   marked "System Program Service Diskette", containing
>   a program which is supposed to be run before installing
>   and operating the TV tuner.  However, when I tried this,
>   it gave me back:
>
>      "Message
>
>       The diskette in the default drive will not run on this system.
>       Your system is now locked.  To restart your system, press
>       Ctrl+Alt+Del."
>
>   The tuner fits in the ThinkPad as a replacement for the diskette drive,
>   is labelled "IBM ThinkPad 750 TV TUNER PACK", and has part numbers
>   FRU P/N 66G6681 and ASM P/N 59G3731.
>
>   My suspicion (well, my hope!) is that this hardware works also in
>   the 755CX, but needs a different "System Program Service Diskette".
>   If anyone has a TV tuner working in a 755CX (SVGA, TFT), could you
>   please check the part number of the hardware to see if it matches
>   the above?  And if so, could you send me a copy of the corresponding
>   "System Program Service Diskette"?
>
>   Or, if you know for sure that it cannot be done, then please tell me,
>   so that I can return the tuner to the seller.
>
>Thanks! -- Joseph
>
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>Joseph Manning / Computer Science / Vassar College / manning@cs.vassar.edu
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