Recently I have tried out ReactOS 0.4.13 (latest release) on my IBM ThinkPad T42 laptop. It sort of works but not too well. But first things first, here are the laptop's specs:
- Intel Pentium M 735 Processor at 1.7 GHz
- 1.25 GB of DDR RAM
- Fujitsu 40 GB IDE Hard Drive
- Intel 855PM North Bridge, Intel ICH4-M South Bridge
- ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 Graphics with 32 MB Video Memory
- Analog Devices AD1981B AC97 Audio (integrated)
- Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet (integrated)
- Intel 2200BG Wireless LAN (miniPCI)
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My USB flash drive seemed to work fine under this version of ROS. I could browse the drive's contents and read files. Saving files, however, seems glitched. One time when I futilly tried to shut down properly and was about to push and hold Power button, I realized that I forgot to copy some files. The text file has been properly written. I took a screenshot of glitched UI drawing in Paint and saved it directly to the flash drive. No errors were reported. However, while I was holding down the Power button to turn off the laptop, I got a BSOD as in the attached picture. I guess this could be related with the flash drive, because when I tried to open the screenshot on my main computer, the file turned out to be corrupted.
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There's one more thing worth to mention. The laptop does not have the COM/RS-232 port directly on its chassis. It is however accessible via the port replicator. I tried fetching debug information this way and it worked just fine.
Hope this report helps anyone.