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flynnguy
Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 8
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:22 am Post subject: problem with USB cable on laptop |
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I have an IBM thinkpad A31 and I bought a USB cable and it works on one of the HP machines at work but not on my IBM thinkpad A31 or another thinkpad that I have access to but I can't remember what model. Mine is running XP and the other is running windows 98.
I plug it in and it says:
Found New Hardware
USB IO Controller
then I go through the setup selecting Universal Serial Bus Controller and then have disk and choose the inf file and I get this error:
The specified location does not contain information about your hardware.
Anyone have any ideas? On the Dell machine at work it woked flawlessly.
-Chris |
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Filebug JP1 Vendor
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 74 Location: Mechanicsburg, PA |
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:50 am Post subject: |
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I've recently heard from one other person who tried a USB cable on 2 different IBM thinkpads and experienced the same problems. It is still unclear what is causing the problem. _________________ -Tom |
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flynnguy
Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 8
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Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:40 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, that was me... I was just wondering if anyone else has had the same problem. |
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mtakahar Expert
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 281
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Did you download the driver, put the .sys file in the WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS directory and the .inf file in the WINDOWS/INF directory?
BTW, I couldn't find the driver archive itself (I'm not sure if this is re-distributable, though) or a link to that in the Yahoo! JP1 group. Is it somewhere less obvious, or am I just missing something?
Hal |
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flynnguy
Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 8
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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yup, tried all of that... it's just not recognized. |
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Mark Pierson Expert
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 3017 Location: Connecticut, USA |
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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Before you attempt to install the driver, make sure the .INF and .SYS files are together in the same folder. When asked for the driver, be sure to navigate to that folder.
Take a look at this driver installation doc to see if it offers any help for your problem. _________________ Mark |
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