Well, over a week and no replies, I guess no one has a solution or no one has seen this problem. Does anyone know of newsgroups or other Thinkpad forums that might be able to help?

I was given a 560 that has an 8081 error which does not detect the PCMCIA cards or slot for that matter. It shows; card services not found unable to register card services driver not installed PCMCIA-ATA Device Driver Version 1.01 Initialization Failed IBM DOS PC Card Auto Configurator Version 2.01 ...