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?

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/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TPAD-MATRIX

PattyL


"jmw" <jmw DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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?