IBM ThinkPad Feature Program for Windows NT ============================================ This documents describes how to install IBM ThinkPad Feature Programs on Windows NT and provides some technical information using this Utility Program. Before installing this program, read carefully how to use this program. 1.0 Installation ----------------- To install this program, follow the instruction below. 1-1 Start Windows NT (V3.51 or higher) on your ThinkPad 1-2 Insert this Utility Diskette into your floppy drive (A:) and go to Windows NT "File Manager". Select drive A on the File Manager menu. 1-3 Double click "INSTDRV.EXE" to run this program. ThinkPad Feature NT device driver is installed in your system. When this driver is installed, following message appears on the NT DOS screen session. "Installation complete for ThinkPad Feature NT driver. Shutdown and restart Windows NT. Run INSTALLN to install ThinkPad Feature program after Windows NT is started." Note: If you have already installed old version ThinkPad Features and running Fuel Gauge program, close this program before installing the device driver. If not, "DLL load error" message will appears. 1-4 Shutdown and restart Windows NT. Go to Windows NT "File Manager" and select drive A. Double click "INSTALLN.EXE" to proceed to install the ThinkPad Feature program. Follow the instruction appears on the screen. 1-5 Logoff Windows NT and log on again to start using ThinkPad Feature program. Fuel Gauge program icon will be automatically created and will become active on the screen. 2.0 Using ThinkPad Features ----------------------------------------- This section describes how to use the ThinkPad Features, Fule Gauge Program and Personalization Editor. Refere to ThinkPad Features Online Help for the general information. This section contains some unique information associated with Windows NT environment which are not included in the Online Help. 2-1 Fuel Gauge program ---------------------- On the fuel gauge screen, clicking the "suspend icon" is defined as the following manner depends on which ThinkPad you are using: ThinkPad 755CE/755CSE/755CX/755CD/755CDV/760C/760CD : Clicking "suspend" icon will make the system going into Stand-by instead of going to suspend. Set the system going into suspend mode will cause erroneous situation on NT such as delay of Time of day clock during suspend, erroneous power down for certain devices after resuming the system. To avoid this situation, clicking the suspend icon does not make the system going to the suspend state but stays with standby state which makes LCD is turned off, HDD stops and CPU in the low speed if there is no busy state detected by the system BIOS. There is a "hibernation" icon on the same menu but using the hibernation function is not recommended because of the same reason of suspend. ThinkPad 755C/360C/360CS/370C/345CS: On these ThinkPad, clicking the "suspend" icon does not work as Standby but going to suspend. It is not recommended to use this button to suspend. On some ThinkPad, "hibernation" icon appears on the same menu but it is not recommended to use because of the same reason of suspend. 2-2 Suspend/Resume options at Power Mode Setting ------------------------------------------------ If you set "Will not suspend even if LCD is closed" as an option at Suspend/Resume options on power mode icon menu, this option is used as the following manner on Windows NT environment: This option allows not only inhibiting the suspend operation at LCD is closed, but also inhibiting ANY suspend condition such as Fn+F4 suspend key, suspend selection at battery gauge icon menu, automatic suspend with suspend timer and low battery suspend. To set this mode effective, click this option on the menu and "save" it. Then shutdown and restart NT. When you boot NT, this mode becomes effective. WARNING: YOU MUST MANUALLY SHUTDOWN THE SYSTEM WHEN LOW BATTERY CONDITION OCCURS. SYSTEM DOES NOT GO TO SUSPEND AUTOMATICALLY AT LOW POWER BATTERY. 2-3 Inhibiting suspend operation -------------------------------- You can inhibit the automatic timer suspend mode using the "Power" mode menu on ThinkPad Feature. Unless you specify "Will not suspend even if LCD is closed" option at suspend/resume option, it is required at least to set the following power mode in order to avoid going to suspend: - Set the "Power Mode" to "Customized" - Set the "Suspend time" to "0" (disable timer suspend) Save the above option and set the power mode as "Customized" mode to take the change effective. Disabling automatic suspend will avoid the erroneous situation occurs on Windows NT. 2-4 Others ---------- Although ThinkPad Feature provide you almost the same menu for device mode setting, it does not mean that all device are supported under NT. For example, enabling Infrared Port by this program does not mean that you can use Infrared port. Without installing the necessary device drivers and application program, it is not possible to use the infrared port. As of today, there is no infrared device drivers/application program run on NT. So, setting this port enabled is not meaningful. Device mode setting menu does not always provide you the all device can be available under Windows NT. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* NOTE: ** NO WARRANTY ** ANY USE BY YOU OF THE SOFTWARE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED FOR USE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 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