Hi Patty L,
thanks for your reply.
This was a recon notebook with nothing on it.
I downloaded all the drivers from IBM to start and then loaded a WIN98SE OS
from CD. This is not necessarily for this IBM machine (if there is a
diference between OEM CDs).
I since loaded the IBM Vantage updater which updated some drivers and
applications. One of these fails to load but it didn't flag Plug and Play as
an issue.
Under the desktop My Computer properties, device manager, system devices, i
do not find plug and play.
Using AIDA32 and looking under devices\windows devices i find 9
installations of plug and play running.
Under physical devices AIda32 identifies 35 PnP devices.....
I can't find plug and play bios and biod.vxd is missing.
Any ideas?