I've got a fujitsu Lifebook 435 (built in 96) and it originally had Windows 95 on it. I can't get it to start and I'm going to install a different OS on it and I want to use Windows NT 4.0, will it work?

Microsoft still list NT4 details: http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstat...

Unless you have all the correct drivers I'd be wary. NT4's PNP was limited at best. Check on line for NT4 drivers for that laptop. If you do get NT4 running you really must install SP6a to keep it running. NT4 famously downed all the networks on an American guided missile cruiser leaving it, as the Captain so neatly put it, "with the offensive capability of a rowboat with a shotgun!" That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. - Admiral William Leahy

I tried NT4 on a laptop and found it impossible to get the PCMCIA drivers going for a network card or modem. Stephen Fox Windows 2000 5.00.2195 SP4 PENTIUM III 600MHz; 768MB RAM DELL OPTIPLEX GX1 DESKTOP 80GB

As mentioned, getting drivers can be a problem. PCMCIA hardware certainly was run on NT4, but you didn't say whose PCMCIA you have. Search the newsgroups for your Fujitsu Lifebook. For example: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.... Hope that helps

If I remember correctly, NT4 has no built in PCMCIA drivers, I used Card Manager which was a proprietary product but did work well but not the easiest piece of software to configure. That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. - Admiral William Leahy