anybody have experience with a Nec Z-1?

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~ Avery Anderson~ wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm "working" on a "very slow" Nec Z-1 running windows 98. It belongs to a
> friend's daughter. I never saw one of these things before. They were made
> and sold in 1999 and maybe early 2000, for $2,500.. They were onto
> something with this, too bad they discontinued it. Nec also removed all
> references to it from their website. They took a laptop screen and married
> it to a motherboard mounted vertically behind the screen resulting in a one
> piece computer, much like the apple Imacs. Anyway, what I was wondering was
> if anybody wiped one of these and reinstalled win98? I'm concerned it may
> have some proprietary drivers for an obscure sound chip, etc., and finding
> that out after the format isn't such a hot idea.
>
> Speaking of that, is there a directory in a win98 system that has the
> drivers for the whole system in it or are they scattered all over the place?
> If they are in one place I could burn a cd and not have to worry about
> finding them later, etc.
>
> It's a pentium 3 running at 450 MHz, and has an 8 gig hard drive.
> Everything's integrated. The only design flaw I can see is they went with a
> wireless keyboard. Which is ok as far as that goes, but they omited a
> keyboard port. No ps2 ports at all. Because of that, I couldn't
> communicate with the machine until I got the keyboard from the owner, which
> of course, held things up for another week.
> Thanks for any ideas on this,
>
> Avery
>
>

NEC says these folks provide support for those machines:

http://www.priorityonesupport.com/

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well go into device manager and see what is listed for the sound and video
you should be able to get a pretty good idea of what is in the system and
you may
be right, the drivers may be proprietary. BTW I remember that system being
sold
wow what a memory. I just can't remember anything my wife tells me to do.


"~ Avery Anderson~" <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:MtidnYowhd7r4uTfRVn-pg@comcast.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm "working" on a "very slow" Nec Z-1 running windows 98. It belongs to
> a friend's daughter. I never saw one of these things before. They were
> made and sold in 1999 and maybe early 2000, for $2,500.. They were onto
> something with this, too bad they discontinued it. Nec also removed all
> references to it from their website. They took a laptop screen and
> married it to a motherboard mounted vertically behind the screen resulting
> in a one piece computer, much like the apple Imacs. Anyway, what I was
> wondering was if anybody wiped one of these and reinstalled win98? I'm
> concerned it may have some proprietary drivers for an obscure sound chip,
> etc., and finding that out after the format isn't such a hot idea.
>
> Speaking of that, is there a directory in a win98 system that has the
> drivers for the whole system in it or are they scattered all over the
> place? If they are in one place I could burn a cd and not have to worry
> about finding them later, etc.
>
> It's a pentium 3 running at 450 MHz, and has an 8 gig hard drive.
> Everything's integrated. The only design flaw I can see is they went with
> a wireless keyboard. Which is ok as far as that goes, but they omited a
> keyboard port. No ps2 ports at all. Because of that, I couldn't
> communicate with the machine until I got the keyboard from the owner,
> which of course, held things up for another week.
> Thanks for any ideas on this,
>
> Avery
>

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Thanks, David , I regisstered, and they have all the drivers.

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Good news on two fronts:

1. The link David provided works and has all the drivers.
2. So does the help routine on the computer.

There was a "NEC Support Center" icon on the desktop so
I clicked on it to see what would happen, and it launched a
wizard for fixing hardware problems among other things.
Stepping through the video thing, after it told me video
drivers were on the restore CD, and I told it I didn't have
one, it asked me if i wanted it to see if there were any
drivers on the system it could use. I said OK. It said
trying that might bork the system, and if the system gets
borked it's on me, so is it ok to continue?,
and I told it yes.

Two reboots later I had it back to normal
plus an additional option was added, 24bit true color,
which I'm using.

I love the design of this thing. Truly, I think NEC made a
big mistake not continueing this model. The entire computer
takes up about 1/3 the space of a 15" CRT monitor.

Avery

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"~ Avery Anderson~" <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:MtidnYowhd7r4uTfRVn-pg@comcast.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm "working" on a "very slow" Nec Z-1 running windows 98. It belongs to
> a friend's daughter. I never saw one of these things before. They were
> made and sold in 1999 and maybe early 2000, for $2,500.. They were onto
> something with this, too bad they discontinued it. Nec also removed all
> references to it from their website. They took a laptop screen and
> married it to a motherboard mounted vertically behind the screen resulting
> in a one piece computer, much like the apple Imacs. Anyway, what I was
> wondering was if anybody wiped one of these and reinstalled win98? I'm
> concerned it may have some proprietary drivers for an obscure sound chip,
> etc., and finding that out after the format isn't such a hot idea.
>
> Speaking of that, is there a directory in a win98 system that has the
> drivers for the whole system in it or are they scattered all over the
> place? If they are in one place I could burn a cd and not have to worry
> about finding them later, etc.
>
> It's a pentium 3 running at 450 MHz, and has an 8 gig hard drive.
> Everything's integrated. The only design flaw I can see is they went with
> a wireless keyboard. Which is ok as far as that goes, but they omited a
> keyboard port. No ps2 ports at all. Because of that, I couldn't
> communicate with the machine until I got the keyboard from the owner,
> which of course, held things up for another week.
> Thanks for any ideas on this,
>
> Avery
>

Have a look at www.driverguide.com

Signup (it's free) and perform a 'simple search'. Type in : NEC Z-1

Returns 5 drivers. 1 x Network adapter, 1 x Creative sound drivers, 2 x
Video drivers, 1 x Multimedia keyboard utility.

TheDysk