I just installed a new 80GB HDD in my 3500 and got everything working
except two items. There is a group of small apps called FPC Utilities
that come with no installation instructions and I can't seem to get the
touchscreen driver to work. Can anyone tell me how to get the
touch-screen working again? The hotpad driver is installed and working,
but I don't get the on-screen bar-graph display of the brightness or sound
volume settings. I think those are part of the FPC utilities, but I am
not sure.

I managed to install the OS using only a second computer, DOS boot floppy,
and a USB hub to allow a USB keyboard and mouse to connect to the tablet
at the same time.

I am running win2k pro sp4, 256 MB ram, and 80 GB HDD.

Kataji kenai!

F

Not sure what you're attempting to do, but the Tablet PC bits are not
supported on Windows 2000.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"fugu" <fugu@poisonfish.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.02.11.05.29.34.479000@poisonfish.net ...
>I just installed a new 80GB HDD in my 3500 and got everything working
> except two items. There is a group of small apps called FPC Utilities
> that come with no installation instructions and I can't seem to get the
> touchscreen driver to work. Can anyone tell me how to get the
> touch-screen working again? The hotpad driver is installed and working,
> but I don't get the on-screen bar-graph display of the brightness or sound
> volume settings. I think those are part of the FPC utilities, but I am
> not sure.
>
> I managed to install the OS using only a second computer, DOS boot floppy,
> and a USB hub to allow a USB keyboard and mouse to connect to the tablet
> at the same time.
>
> I am running win2k pro sp4, 256 MB ram, and 80 GB HDD.
>
> Kataji kenai!
>
> F

The tablet has a passive digitizer that is made to look like a mouse. The
machine originally came with win2k, so I am just trying to get a larger
HDD operational.

The crux of the problem is that the machine has only 1 HDD, no FDD, no
network port, no CDROM drive, just 1 USB port and a serial port. I need
to copy the win2k install files to the HDD on a partition other than the
boot partition so that I can install win2k to the boot partition. I got
it to work by putting the HDD in a desktop PC, installing DOS on C: and
putting the windows files on D:. Then I pull the HDD from the desktop
machine and install it in the tablet and run winnt.exe from D:. but the
DOS partition is too small for the installation so it makes a new
partition called E: and installs win2k there. On boot-up I am presented
with the choice of booting either DOS or Win2k. So far OK, but the driver
for the touch screen digitizer wants to install files on c:, but the OS
is on E: so the drivers don't work.

I need to get win2k onto the C: partition so that the touchscreen
digitizer drivers will work.

Now I am trying to use gparted to partition the HDD and copy win2k install
files to the D: partition. I need to make C: bootable somehow so I can
access the D: drive once the HDD is back inside the tablet.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

F

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:03:06 -0800, Chris H. wrote:

> Not sure what you're attempting to do, but the Tablet PC bits are not
> supported on Windows 2000.

You might want to check in one of the newsgroups which support Windows 2000,
or contact the manufacturer's support section. This newsgroup is for
support of Tablet PC functionalities on computers which use them.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"fugu" <fugu@poisonfish.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.02.12.03.47.48.242872@poisonfish.net ...
> The tablet has a passive digitizer that is made to look like a mouse. The
> machine originally came with win2k, so I am just trying to get a larger
> HDD operational.
>
> The crux of the problem is that the machine has only 1 HDD, no FDD, no
> network port, no CDROM drive, just 1 USB port and a serial port. I need
> to copy the win2k install files to the HDD on a partition other than the
> boot partition so that I can install win2k to the boot partition. I got
> it to work by putting the HDD in a desktop PC, installing DOS on C: and
> putting the windows files on D:. Then I pull the HDD from the desktop
> machine and install it in the tablet and run winnt.exe from D:. but the
> DOS partition is too small for the installation so it makes a new
> partition called E: and installs win2k there. On boot-up I am presented
> with the choice of booting either DOS or Win2k. So far OK, but the driver
> for the touch screen digitizer wants to install files on c:, but the OS
> is on E: so the drivers don't work.
>
> I need to get win2k onto the C: partition so that the touchscreen
> digitizer drivers will work.
>
> Now I am trying to use gparted to partition the HDD and copy win2k install
> files to the D: partition. I need to make C: bootable somehow so I can
> access the D: drive once the HDD is back inside the tablet.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> F
>
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:03:06 -0800, Chris H. wrote:
>
>> Not sure what you're attempting to do, but the Tablet PC bits are not
>> supported on Windows 2000.
>

The problem has been solved.

Thanks!

F


On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:43:42 -0800, Chris H. wrote:

> You might want to check in one of the newsgroups which support Windows 2000,
> or contact the manufacturer's support section. This newsgroup is for
> support of Tablet PC functionalities on computers which use them.

fugu shared these words of wisdom:

> The problem has been solved.

May I kindly ask:
"HOW" ????

These forums are anything but a "one-way-street" ....

Rainald