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Compaq LTE Lite 4/25E & Docking Station
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I have an REALLY old notebook here that I want to use for instant messaging- and get those things of the machine I use here. It's annoying to have everyone bug you at once when your trying to work. The problem is that the note book doesn't pick up anything from the Docking station except power. Is there a software program that should be running on it? |
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The problem is that the note book doesn't pick up anything from the Docking
station except power. Is there a software program that should be running on it? If you want a HDD in the dock to be seen, yes, but not for a modem, I don't think. I'll send you some info on 4/25 if you want--email me directly.... Dale |
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This is old info from the back of my brain.
On the docking station there were a couple of switches, labeled A-B & C-D Make sure that the switches are in the A and C positions when you boot up the laptop. These were swap drives A and B or swap drives C and D functions, it may be trying to boot from the non-existent drive in the docking station. As I said , this is old info, if you can't find the switches, then I'm thinking of the SmartStation. Does the laptop boot without the docking station? Good Luck, Mike in Houston "Venum" wrote in message news:wWDRa.12$If5.8@lakeread06... Hello- I have an REALLY old notebook here that I want to use for instant messaging- and get those things of the machine I use here. It's annoying to have everyone bug you at once when your trying to work. The problem is that the note book doesn't pick up anything from the Docking station except power. Is there a software program that should be running on it? |
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No the problem I have is that it will not pick up the docking station at all
so I cannot get the network or cdrom to get recognized "Mike Calkins" wrote in message y.com... This is old info from the back of my brain. On the docking station there were a couple of switches, labeled A-B & C-D Make sure that the switches are in the A and C positions when you boot up the laptop. These were swap drives A and B or swap drives C and D functions, it may be trying to boot from the non-existent drive in the docking station. As I said , this is old info, if you can't find the switches, then I'm thinking of the SmartStation. Does the laptop boot without the docking station? Good Luck, Mike in Houston "Venum" wrote in message news:wWDRa.12$If5.8@lakeread06... Hello- I have an REALLY old notebook here that I want to use for instant messaging- and get those things of the machine I use here. It's annoying to have everyone bug you at once when your trying to work. The problem is that the note book doesn't pick up anything from the Docking station except power. Is there a software program that should be running on it? |
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What operating system are you running on the laptop?
Mike "Venum" wrote in message news:ZSJRa.681$If5.188@lakeread06... No the problem I have is that it will not pick up the docking station at all so I cannot get the network or cdrom to get recognized "Mike Calkins" wrote in message y.com... This is old info from the back of my brain. On the docking station there were a couple of switches, labeled A-B & C-D Make sure that the switches are in the A and C positions when you boot up the laptop. These were swap drives A and B or swap drives C and D functions, it may be trying to boot from the non-existent drive in the docking station. As I said , this is old info, if you can't find the switches, then I'm thinking of the SmartStation. Does the laptop boot without the docking station? Good Luck, Mike in Houston "Venum" wrote in message news:wWDRa.12$If5.8@lakeread06... Hello- I have an REALLY old notebook here that I want to use for instant messaging- and get those things of the machine I use here. It's annoying to have everyone bug you at once when your trying to work. The problem is that the note book doesn't pick up anything from the Docking station except power. Is there a software program that should be running on it? |
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"Venum" wrote in message news:wWDRa.12$If5.8@lakeread06...
Hello- I have an REALLY old notebook here that I want to use for instant messaging- and get those things of the machine I use here. It's annoying to have everyone bug you at once when your trying to work. The problem is that the note book doesn't pick up anything from the Docking station except power. Is there a software program that should be running on it? Hi Venum, I have an REALLY old notebook... Hey it is not old, it is only 8-9 years old. *g* I saw that you have Win95 running onm that Laptop. Well then everything should work! I use Windows 95b on my COMPAQ LTE Lite 4/33C with 1,1 GB HDD, Windows 95b and 20 MB RAM. The Dockingstaion is equipped with a 10/100 MBit Network-Card from Compaq, a 16-bit Soundcard from Compaq, a CD/CD-R from Compaq (yes i am able to burn CDīs with the lte lite) a Streamer from Compaq and a 2,1 GB HDD from Quantum. All is working fine with Windows 95b! At the beginning i docked the Laptop into the DS and everything was recognized automatically by Windows!! I only needed the Drivers for the cards and so on and i remember that i need to set a jumper, but everything else was installed by Windows. Windows even created the Hardware profiles..that means it detects if the Laptop is docked or not and loads the correct profile. Very cool. Maybe i had just luck ?! :-)) European |
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All is working fine with Windows 95b! At the beginning i
docked the Laptop into the DS and everything was recognized automatically by Windows!! I only needed the Drivers for the cards and so on and i remember that i need to set a jumper, but everything else was installed by Windows. Windows even created the Hardware profiles..that means it detects if the Laptop is docked or not and loads the correct profile. Very cool. Maybe i had just luck ?! :-)) European I'm curious--did you inherit the laptop with WIN95b or did you do a clean install of just WIN95b? Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought the 4/25E, and the 4/33C, originally came with WIN3.1. Maybe the change in OS came with the 4/33. Special programs needed to be loaded to get DOS/WIN3.1 to recognize anything in the dock, from what I understood, and perhaps these programs were already loaded when you got the laptop? Dale |
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