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Name: bizzo Date: September 28, 2002 at 08:12:15 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: 233 32mb
Comment:
I have a compaq lte 5400 with only an internal floppy drive and hard disk.
I formatted the hard disk after a series of disasters trying to upgrade to win98. I bought a Vintech PCMCIA external cd drive accessable through the pcmcia slot. Problem: having installed dos 6.22 I still can't get the pcmcia slots to activate. I even tried installing win 3.11 but still did'nt help...
Should I just bin the damn thing or can any one tell me how to get the pcmcia drivers loaded so that I can access the cd drive to install win98.
Any help would be so gratefully accepted....thanks!
Name: Brown1955 Date: September 28, 2002 at 08:22:23 Pacific
Reply:
Card and Socket Services In order to use a PC Card slot in the computer, Card and Socket services must be loaded, typically at system startup. Card and Socket Services software is generally included with laptops that have PC Card slots. It also comes packaged with PC Cards.
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Response Number 2
Name: easy Date: September 28, 2002 at 09:18:59 Pacific
Reply:
you might try some of the dos drivers located here http://www.cdrom-drivers.com/companies/1120.htm
Summary: I recently aquired a compaq LTE 5300 but I had to clean the hard drive off. I have an external cd-rom and the drivers for it but I can't get the pcmcia slot to initialize on boot up. I know it is mi...
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