Re: [Thinkpad] TP600X forgets PCMIA cards

Is this an IBM install or a retail install?
----- Original Message -----
From: "RICHARD GORDON" <rrgordon@bellatlantic.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:16 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] TP600X forgets PCMIA cards

> Greetings,
>
> my TP600X is driving me crazy !
>
> Model 2645-4EU with 589,248 KB reported and running Win 2000 with SP3. All
> appropriate driver upgrades installed from the IBM TP support site
>
> With a fresh install of W2K this machine will readily allow installation
of
> PCMIA cards (various brands of network cards) which will operate perfectly
> UNTIL the machine is either shut down or allowed to go on standby for the
> first time.
>
> Upon rebooting or reawakening W2K detects new hardware but declines to
find
> the relevant drivers from its own collection and refuses to find drivers
on
> the card manufacturers CD or floppy which was used to install the card in
> the first place. Result is non operating PCMIA card "of unknown
> manufacturer"
>
> If the HD is wiped clean and W98 is installed EXACTLY the same thing
happens
> after card installation and the machine is shut down and rebooted for the
> first time.
>
> BUT The same PCMIA cards operate perfectly on my TP600E also running W2K
> with SP3
>
> The only possibly relevant difference I can see is that the 600X has Texas
> Instruments PCI-1450 CardBus controllers while the 600E has Texas
> Instruments PCI-1251 CardBus controllers.
>
> To my non technical brain it does seem to be a CardBus issue because all
of
> the cards have problems in the 600X but they all work just fine in the
600E
> and the OS's are the same.
>
> I have RTFM'd, searched the IBM web site and Googled to no avail and now
I'm
> beginning to doubt my sanity.
>
> All suggestions gratefully appreciated.
>
> Richard
>
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