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Re: Olivetti Laptop D33/C, SVGA Hualon, HM 86304

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From: Massimo Baschieri
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 00:00
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:57:28 +0200, Rolf Hemmerling
<hemmerling@geocities.com> wrote:

>a) VESA driver for MSDOS. I got UNIVBE 4.3, but the TESTVBE.EXE program
>fails (?)

I've never seen VESA drivers for that machine.

>b) SVGA drivers for WIN 3.1 (for WIN 95, for WIN-NT 3.51 or WIN-NT 4.0),
>for LINUX. The standard LCD drivers for CGA,EGA,VGA for WIN 3.1 are
>available. 

Laptop D33/C doesn't perform SVGA graphics.
 
>d) Is there any setup utility ?

No, but you can access the ROM built-in setup in order to configure
the machine.

>e) By what keypress may I get into the ROM setup ?

CNTRL+ALT+SHIFT+ CANC (keep pressed the fist three keys with the left
hand, then press CANC with the other hand)
 
>f) By what keypress may I switch the Turbo function and the other

ALT+CNTRL+F Key (not all the functions are active, for some functions
you have to run a program called HOTKEYS.EXE first, the program is
part of a support disk delivered with the PC)

>I understand that I get trouble if I load the german keyboard
>drivers of MSDOS, but I was not able to do any of these functions even
>witout any keyboard driver
>
Probably you'll find a specific keyboard driver into the same support
disk containing hotkeys.exe. 

>i) What types (manufactorer, diskname, capacity, disk parameters)
>of harddisks may I install as replacement for the 100 MByte harddisk ?
>Unfortunately, 40 MB of the 100 MB are marked as "defect" and I donοΏ½t
>know how to do a low-level formatting ! Any idea ?
>
The max capacity of hard Disk you can install on this machine is
200Mb, very hard to find nowadays; you can try to install an Hard Disk
greater than 200Mb but it will work like a 200Mb one (if works).


Bye,
       Max.
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From: max45@ittc.it (Massimo Baschieri)
Subject: Re: Olivetti Laptop D33/C, SVGA Hualon, HM 86304
Date: 1997/09/21
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