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michael - thanks again for the suggestion. unfortunately it did not work. any other suggestions welcomed. regards, al our computer support person keeps telling me to switch to toshiba or digital (dec) ... ANYTHING BUT IBM! he says he has installed win95 on many machines around the campus and my thinkpad 755CE - which may well be the only one on the campus - is the only one that has given him problems - several days of trying without success. up-dating everything, bios, drivers, etc etc. but all without success. Alden S Klovdahl / alden.klovdahl@anu.edu.au / fax: +61 62 49 05 25 Sociology Arts / Australian National University / Canberra ACT Australia 0200 On 7 Aug 1996, Michael Verne/VENTANA wrote: > "...anyone have the problem of not getting the pcmcia cards when installing > win95 > over wfwg 3.11, on a thinkpad 755CE? the thinkpad card program just doesn't > detect them, in this case a new media bustoaster and an ibm ethernet card...." > > ~~~~~ > assuming you've wiped out your autoexec.bat & config.sys, and enabled pcmcia > support, i've seen this same problem on a two thinkpads. i was able to > pinpoint it to a resource conflict & the simple solution was to go into device > manager & disable (not remove) the ide controller. after that, the cards came > right up. don't ask my why changing the resources on the ide controller didn't > work, it just didn't. "all this science, i don't understand. it's just my job > five days a week." > > hope this helps. > > Michael J. Verne > Systems Administrator, Ventana Communications Group > michael_verne@vmedia.com > http://www.vmedia.com/michaelv/ > ------------------------------- > If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor > in the other direction. --Dietrich Bonhoeffer > >