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Hi all;

Thanks for the answers to my earlier questions. I am loving my new 240X!

I am having trouble getting the Portable Drive Bay CD ROM Drive recognized. The error returned is that device cannot start.

I think the PCMCIA slot works, as I have used an ethernet card in it for a little while, no problems there.

When I attach the PDB2K, and try to load drivers, I get the error message. I am not using an external power adapter on the PDB2K. Should I be? Is that a limitation of the 240x PCMCIa slot, that it does not supply sufficient power??

In device manager, the Texas Instruments IDE PCMCIA slot is functional, but the entry for the Drive Bay itself has a yellow triangle over it. Driver fails to install.

I run PCDiagnostics, and the PCMCIA slot fails the test. (But it has worked with the NIC!)

Have checked the IRQ, and even set them back to default to no avail.

IF it is the slot that is bad, is changing the slot with a new one sufficient to over come the problem, or could the problem be further into the system??

Thanks for your insights. Sorry to be so long winded, but these are the things I have tried so far. . .

I wonder if it's because of the driver issue only. Try get into safe mode, remove all the archive drivers from the device manager that you are not using, and then reboot into normal mode without insertting the cdrom pcmcia card. Get the cdrom pcmcia card ready (unzipped if need to) and then insert the card in. The system normally would pop-up the "add new hardware" window for you to follow its instructions to install the driver. I am not familiar with PDB device but according to 307 IBM website it should come with batteries maybe you need to put in those?

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