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I recently had to get a new hard drive, and therefore, a new windows installation. Everything is working great except the modem. I downloaded the driver from the ibm website, and if I try the setup.exe in the "oldmwave" directory, it says it can't detect the plug and play device. When I try setup in "disk1" directory, it says I need to reboot before continuing. But it doesn't work. I somehow finally got a thinkpad dsp control panel applet, but it's no good and when I try to uninstall it, it says the driver can't be removed at this time. I've tried installing the dsp manually, and then the oldmave setup comes up, but it says that "the diskette is missing files, setup will not continue", going on to say, "setup has completed successfully". I reinstalled and uninstalled and deleted and copied and updated and moved enough to make a person dizzy. I never remember this happening when I reinstalled the modem on my old HDD. I even got messy and switched modems with another one (which I'm sure can't be faulty)! At Computing.net, someone told me to install the "chipsets" from the original cd, but I got the laptop used, so I don't have it! I tried taking the Mww32 directory from my old laptop HDD to my new one, and I tried installing the oldmwave driver, and updating it to the disk1 one, but it doesn't work. When I manually install the DSP ( which doesn't do anything) it says it detects the modem, Wave, and PhoneLine device; but the last two say they're missing vmaudio.vxd. When I copy the quick test app to the right directory and run it, it finds the modem; but can't access it. I've about had it. A friend said he might get me a pcmcia modem, but I want to get the original built-in one to work. All this has only amounted to a useless control panel applet, a messy hard drive, and frustration.

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

Exactly what file did you download (name) and what type model is your 600E? (ie. 2645-8BU)

I downloaded acpcw32.exe, and it's a 2645. Also, what is a chipset? Is there a difference between that and a driver?

You need to follow the explicit instructions in the readme file acpcw32.txt. Download that from the following site.

ACP modem driver II for Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT - ThinkPad 600/E, 770/E/ED/X/Z

I read that file, but the installation doesn't work. The dsp control panel applet is stuck and won't uninstall, and the oldmwave installation doesn't detect the pnp device. The disk1 installation tells me to restart. NAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!