(DEJ57) wrote in message ...
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

Hi Dale,

I'm curious--did you inherit the laptop with WIN95b or did you do a clean
install of just WIN95b?

Well, I got this laptop in brandnew conditions in 2001. One seller
here (Germany) stored this Laptop since 1994 and never used it, never
packed it out!
When he asked me to buy it, i didn´t think about it very long. (I
payed 200 EUROS (approx. 200 USD) and it was absolutely worth for me.

With other words i got a brandnew, unused LTE Lite in the original
package in 2001 :-)). Ok, back to the subject. I inherited the 4/33C
with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups (orig. Compaq Version). The Software
was included in the package and also the complete documentation and so
on. All like you buy it in 1994.

The CMOS Battery was empty (The unit didnt boot up at the first time)
so i changed it and at the same time i changed the 510 MB HDD with a
1,1 GB from IBM. This makes the old LTE Lite it more usable for todays
standards. (I used Maxtor Maxblast to override the 620 MB Limit of the
BIOS).

As you can see i know this laptop very well, i did a lot of
investigations about it and i can dissamble it with closed eyes
without damaging anything :-).

After that, i did a clean install of Windows 95b. (I copied the setup
files to the new 1,1 GB HDD before i inserted it).

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought the 4/25E, and the 4/33C, originally came
with WIN3.1.

Seems so, yes. I can confirm it. Maybe, Maybe the last 4/33C units had
Windows 95 installed, but i don´t think so...The LTE Lite´s are
originally Windows 3.x Laptops. But that doesnt mean that they are
incompatibel with Windows 95 *g*. I even run a LTE Lite/25 (20MB RAM)
with Windows 95.

By the way: Windows 95 has "Compaq LTE Lite Support" in its
Systemcontrol. :-)
I don´t know why.

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?

That is right. If you run DOS/Windows 3.x then you need certain
Softpaqs and so to recognize anything in the Dockingstation. I tried
once to dock a Windows 3.11 Lte Lite to the Dock. (the LTE Lite/25
above), but it was so frustating that i kicked out Win 3.11 and
installed Windows 95. And oh wonder, everything was really easy! I
only did some research on the Dock to find info about the Jumpers and
so on. I plugged the big HDD and the CD-R to the single IDE, inserted
the cards and Win95 and the drivers for the cards did the rest.

Now i use the 4/33C to listen to mp3 and for other nice stuff :-)

I hope this info was understandable!

byem,

Euro from Germany