On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:09:53 RayBay wrote: > And the Thinkpad edition of Windows XP Professional is a special version. > It is not like other versions of Windows XP
Huh? Can you elucidate please? --STeve Andre' > > ----- > > This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. > > ... .... ..... ...... ....... Oscar Wilde > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey Race <[email protected]> wrote: > > It doesn't run on the Acer machine running WXP, but it > > does on the Thinkpad running WXP. > > > > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:35:53 -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: > > >On Wednesday 05 August 2009 12:09:26 Jeffrey Race wrote: > > >> I bought a CD which will not load in my 600X on W2K; if I load the > > >> executable the machine hangs. The same happens on an Acer running > > >> W2K. > > >> > > >> However when I place it in the drive of my T43 running WXP, it > > >> auto-runs perfectly. > > >> > > >> Questions please: > > >> > > >> What can I do to diagnose the problem of not running on the 600X? > > >> > > >> How can I get it to run on the 600X? (Perhaps implicit in above.) > > >> > > >> Can I copy the files to the T43's drive and put on a thumb drive or > > >> something, if I can't get the disk to run on the 600X? > > >> > > >> Tks for all help > > >> Jeffrey Race > > > > > >If you can run the programs off that CD on some machines you have a > > >good indicator that the CD itself is good, or at least marginal. This > > > > means > > > > >that you ought to be able to take the code from the CD and stuff it onto > > >something like a USB stick and run it from there, assuming that it > > > doesn't have some sort of copy protection scheme. > > > > > >I have a few CD drives that are "weird". One in particular that drove > > > me buggy for a while cannot read data from the middle area of a CD. At > > > the start and end yes but not the middle. Maddening and it cost me > > > time to figure out why. > > > > > >However, you do mention Win2K and WinXP, so that could be your problem? > > >Try putting the code on a USB stick and verify that it works on the XP > > >machine, and then try it on the Win2K. If that doesn't work let us > > > know. I'm not sure I've heard of a program crashing on Win2K before > > > that was made for XP. > > > > > >Maddening.... > > > > > >--STeve Andre' > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Thinkpad mailing list > > >[email protected] > > >http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thinkpad mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
