Re: [Thinkpad] TP600X forgets PCMIA cards

Bruce Markowitz wrote:
> 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
>
>

It's a retail install Bruce and so is (was) the Win 98 install. The machine
operates perfectly with either install EXCEPT for the PCMIA slots.

Richard
>> 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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Received on Tue Sep 2 14:55:08 2003