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TP 380XD,385XD - Considerations for Windows NT

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Windows NT Considerations
o Hibernation is not supported for drives formatted with NTFS in Windows NT 4.0.

o CardWizard does not support RI resume on Windows NT 4.0.

o CardWizard does not support 3270 and 5250 Emulation cards on Windows NT 4.0.

o CardBus PC Cards are not supported on Windows NT 4.0

o Multi-function PC cards are not supported on Windows NT 4.0

o Boot from PC Card HDDs are not supported on Windows NT 4.0.

o ZV Cards are not supported on Windows NT 4.0.

o Windows NT does not support plug/unplug operation for PC Card during suspend mode.

o When using an IBM PCMCIA Token-Ring card under Windows NT 4.0, use the Token-Ring device driver IBM provides, not the Microsoft PCMCIA
Token-Ring driver.

o To use IBM CD400 CD-ROM drive on Windows NT 4.0, CD-400 device driver must be Version 2.0 or later.

o PC Card Power Management on Windows NT has the following limitations
- Suspend in AC mode - modem, ATA, Flash PC Cards do not enter standby mode.
- Hibernation in AC mode - Network modem ATA, Flash PC Cards do not enter hibernation mode.
- Hibernation in battery mode - SCSI and CardBus PC Cards do not enter hibernation mode.

o In Windows NT, when you play a movie in screen expanded mode, you may see a noisy screen. You can recover it by disabling the expanded mode using Fn and
F8 key.

o LDCM in Windows NT 4.0 may not to show any information on its application window if the log-on operation is completed before loading all system modules.

o Position/size is not adjust when stopping full screen playback with MediaPlayer then returning to desktop with 64K color modes under Windows NT 4.0.

o An exception error occurs when playback Indeo AVI file with ActiveMovie on the system that customer installed IE4 into under Windows NT 4.0.

o QuickTime movie playback quality problem (random small rectangle-blocks appears on video) on Windows NT 4.0 with IE4.01.

o Under Windows NT 4.0, ATA cards do not go into suspend/hibernate if ATA card is mounted in AC mode.

o ATA Boot is not supported under Windows NT 4.0.

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Date Created

18-05-98

Last Updated

30-04-99

Revision Date

06-05-2000

Brand

IBM ThinkPad

Product Family

ThinkPad 380XD, ThinkPad 385XD

Machine Type

2635

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