Re: [Thinkpad] TP600X forgets PCMIA cards

Did you DL and install the .inf files from the website.
Sometimes it is just about impossible to get a ThinkPad to work properly
without the IBM recovery disk.
----- Original Message -----
From: "RICHARD GORDON" <rrgordon@bellatlantic.net>
To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>; <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:49 PM
Subject: 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 15:08:34 2003