I got my T43 yesterday and everything on it seems to be working great.
It had Win7 installed, so I booted it up to get hardware data. Come to
find out it didn't have the ATI chipset as the seller said, but has the
Intel chipset. I got it for $40, and since it'll just be running the
BBS, I am not too worried about it. So I kept it. 

I first tried to install eCS 1.2MR, and was getting trap errors on the
first reboot during the install. So I got my OS/2 4.52 CDs out and
tried it and had the same issue. TRAP errors on the first reboot during
installation. After multiple attempts and REM device drivers, I figured
out it was the APM drivers.

After I figured that out I re-installed eCS1.2, then I tried to get the
latest Firefox running. That turned into a nightmare of missing
packages, missing dlls, blah bleh... I doubt I'll be doing much surfing
on the machine so I decided to not spend any more time on it, but I
knew I had junk spread out all over the drive, so I reinstalled fresh
again. 

Some config.sys tweaking and copies from backup. It's ready to take
over the BBS. But I am leaving town this weekend, so I'll wait till
next week and transfer files one evening, then shut down the VM and run
it on the 43. 

I might pickup another T43 to experiment with getting SSDs running on
them. Or maybe just go back to a T42 since those seem to like PATA SSDs
better. 

Kev

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