I have recently bought an IBM Thinkpad 600E with a clean install of Windows 98SE, which has worked brilliantly until a couple of days ago. I was attempting to install a friend's scanner (without the driver disk, thinking Windows may pick it up) when I accidentally (and quite stupidly) clicked "Finish" in the "Add New Hardware" wizard with no devices selected. It seemingly removed and then re-installed all of my drivers. Since then, I have had the following device conflict:

intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller (Code 15) - this device is causing a resource conflict

I have also had issues with the advanced power management settings (driver seems to miraculously disappear and only re-install when it feels like it... sounds stupid but I can't see any patterns or reasons as to why it would do this). On top of that, I also had the following conflict:

Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC (code 12) cannot find any free IRQ resources to use.

Which was fixed by removing and re-installing the device. The same method has not worked with the intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller, as even when Windows re-installs the device it still has the same conflict. When the soundcard had this conflict, I saw this for the IDE Controller:

intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller (code 29) BIOS for the device did not give it an IRQ

It has now gone back to the "code 15" conflict.

On top of this, when my laptop starts up, I see the "IBM Thinkpad" screen, followed by a cursor, then the screen goes blank and the computer restarts and loads windows, however runs incredibly slow.

Is there something I'm missing? Should I simply format the hard drive and re-install everything? I'm really stuck here, I need answers!

Lisa

I been trying to install updated modem drivers but they wont install. When the Windows will search for new drivers appears it wont find the drivers. any ideas? sorry I can't help you with your proplem. I have a 600e too

I've been having problems with a ThinkPad 570, mainly the Intel Bus Master entry in device manager conflicts with the two other bus master entries... I did some looking around and one person noted that after they installed IBM's INF supplement that it worked fine so you might want to try to get all the latest drivers from IBM, search around for that INF supplement on IBMs site, and grab the latest chipset drivers from intel... that seemed to clear up my problems

I finally was able to fix this problem. Here's what I did: Downloaded the Windows 98 Supplement for the Thinkpad 600E from IBM's website: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/w98sfdit.exe File extracted to c:\drivers\win9x\supp Double-clicked c:\drivers\win9x\supp\apm2apm\apm2apm.reg and restarted. The conflict was then gone.