Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 05:17:40 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Possible driver file conflicts w/combo modem on L70
Hey Pres! Thanks for looking at this for me. >Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 19:40:20 -0500 >From: Pres Waterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > First problem: The system shuts down during boot if the card is in >the >system. I can insert it after boot, and the system will see it >and let me >use it to make a dial-up connection successfully. > > >This concerns me. There are only 2 instances I have seen a PCMCIA card crap >out a computer. One, a Compaq Aero would shut off as if the ( wireless LAN >)card was shorted. Two, if the PCMCIA socket on a L100 was set in BIOS to >CardBus/16bit and the card was NOT CardBus, so the need is to set the >socket to PCIC/Compatible. Thanks to Toshiba for putting in PCIC >Compatibility even though CardBus is all the rage. The CardBus is NOT, NOT, >NOT backwards compatible. Well... as the 70CT doesn't know from Cardbus (did it come along after 79CTs?), that problem in BIOS doesn't seem likely. I haven't looked yet, but I doubt there's any mention of Cardbus in BIOS. The other thing is that the card works fine on the 50CT. Boots just fine without shutting down mid-boot like the 70CT. I'm leaning wayto the Intel/Xircom tech guy's guess that it's something in the way W98 is set up on the 70CT, or some file it's loading that is conflicting. Maybe a re-load of W98 uis due. > >I'm wondering if there might be a confict with an entry in the >'Network >Adapters' section 'Device Manager' that I can't delete. I >can only see >the entry in 'Safe Mode'. It's an entry for a >Megahertz combo that I >couldn't get going either. It can't be >deleted. I get a message saying >that it must be removed with the >'parent device'. But that entry in >'Multi-function devices' is >gone, no doubt when I deleted the drivers for >that Megahertz modem. >I don't have the modem or drivers anymore. I >wonder if there is any >software that can clean up this entry. > > > >Ewwwwwww. This is where I would have gone. I'm looking for software. A lot refers to registry cleaning... none to device manager, but then I guess the latter is bascially a function of the former. I did search registry for the old Megahertz modem, and found 2 or 3 references. I was hoping to find a reference to a driver file it may have been loading so I could try to move/disabale it. But I found no references to any driver files in the Megahertz keys that my search came up with. I suppose I could delete the keys without causing any problems... but then I really don't know that much about registry, or whether that would cause some other havoc. > >I tried disabling that Megahertz driver in 'Safe Mode'. But the >problem >persisted. I'm not sure if you can set the 'disable in this >profile' >option in from Safe Mode, or if you have to boot into a >profile first. >Problem is, without the original card inserted, you >won't see the driver >in a full boot into Windows. None of my PC >Card drivers appear there >after a full boot to W98 until I actually >insert the card. That said, I >only HAVE one profile. But it's only >a guess that this old Megahertz >driver is the source of the >problem. It sure seems like it if disabling >it make problem #2 >above go away. I suppose he problem could be with >these files, or >some files relating to it that the L70 has and the L50 >doesn't. >BTW: The L70 has same installation of W98 as the L50. > > > >Another thing I thought odd was that Windows wants to set up the >Xircom >on Com 5 on the L70 where the 2 other modems I've had got set >up on Com 3. >And for some reason, Windows set up ALL of the modems >successfully om Com >2, albeit at differ times. They haven't been >set up at the same time. I >did remove all the drivers for old >modems on the L70 to try to get the >Xircom working... all but this >Megahertz entry in 'Network adapters'. > > > >Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated! > > > >Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww. You see NOTHING in Multifunction, and you see a ghost of a >modem child you can't get rid of? How about a network adapter / >child? That's where the 'ghost' is, as you refer to it, in the 'network adapter' section. There's nothing for the Megahertz modem in 'Multi-function devices'. >Did you go into control panel...modems and delete the modem from >there? >How about device mangler? There's nothing in Control Panel/Modems for the megahertz, and only the one problem reference I in device mangler (loveit!) that I mentioned. I could be barking up the entirely wrong tree here too. There may very well be some conflict with some other file on the L70 that isn't on the L50's installation of W98. I've seen a few instances where device mangler (so approprate here) didn't indicate any conflicts with installed device drivers, though the device in question resused to work until other driver files were substituted. 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