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Failed load of Plug and Play
IBM Thinkpad T20 with windows 98se
After an F Disk ther was always one device that couldn't be identified but the PC seemed to work well enough. Recently had problems that cumulated in the 3com 10/100 mini PCI ethernet adaptor not working properly with an unidentified fault. Fixed the missing device at last (Power Management) but left with an annoying set of problems including another unrecognised device (PCI simple communications device) and a boot up problem "Resource conflict - PCI Bus:00, Device:03, Function: 01. Couldn't figure out why the device wasn't being recognised. IBM detected some missing drivers and loaded all but the driver for the 3com mini pci adapter which it says it has loaded but it always reappears in the installation program as required and not installed. ABout this time i noticed that Plug and play software device enumerator wasn't there under system devices. Used the add hardware but this hangs when it gets to copying devices. With some patience it does finally seem to see the CD to load but PNP never appears in the device list. I did try the "have disk" approach with copied machine.inf but couldn't find more than a passing reference to this method. Besides, machine .inf says [detect.devinfs] *pnpOAOO=machine2.inf etc. Any ideas? |
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Failed load of Plug and Play
Did you use the system restore that shipped with your computer after you
partitioned & formatted? If the system shipped with Win98 and you did not use the system restore or recovery from IBM, then I would first do that. Many drivers for laptop computers are proprietary and are not included on the retail Windows disks. IBM will have included all of the drivers for your computer as shipped so that restoring the system will install these. I would expect all original devices on your system to work after restoring the original system and if an original piece of hardware doesn't work, that suggests hardware failure and I would contact IBM. If your system shipped with Win98 and you are installing Win98SE, I would still do the restore to get all the essential drivers for your system and then upgrade to Win98SE. Once this is done, I would go to the IBM web site and run the IBM driver check utility to update your drivers automaticaly to the newest versions from IBM. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...id=TPAD-MATRIX PattyL "jmw" wrote in message ... IBM Thinkpad T20 with windows 98se After an F Disk ther was always one device that couldn't be identified but the PC seemed to work well enough. Recently had problems that cumulated in the 3com 10/100 mini PCI ethernet adaptor not working properly with an unidentified fault. Fixed the missing device at last (Power Management) but left with an annoying set of problems including another unrecognised device (PCI simple communications device) and a boot up problem "Resource conflict - PCI Bus:00, Device:03, Function: 01. Couldn't figure out why the device wasn't being recognised. IBM detected some missing drivers and loaded all but the driver for the 3com mini pci adapter which it says it has loaded but it always reappears in the installation program as required and not installed. ABout this time i noticed that Plug and play software device enumerator wasn't there under system devices. Used the add hardware but this hangs when it gets to copying devices. With some patience it does finally seem to see the CD to load but PNP never appears in the device list. I did try the "have disk" approach with copied machine.inf but couldn't find more than a passing reference to this method. Besides, machine .inf says [detect.devinfs] *pnpOAOO=machine2.inf etc. Any ideas? |
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Failed load of Plug and Play
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? |
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