Installing The Cd-Rom Device Driver For Windows 95 - IBM ThinkPad 760E Instruction Manual

Installing Windows 95 Software

Installing the CD-ROM Device Driver for Windows 95

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IBM ThinkPad 760E, 760ED, or 760EL User's Guide
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Start Windows 95 and select My Computer.
2
Click on Control Panel and then System.
3
Click on the Device Manager tab; then see if the Generic IrDA
Compatible Device node has ( C OM1) or ( C OM2) .
If not, do the following:
a) Go to the MS-DOS command prompt.
b) Type edit c:\windows\inf\msports.inf and press Enter.
c) Locate the following line:
% PNP 51 .DeviceDesc%=NoDrv,
Change this line to:
% PNP 51 .DeviceDesc%=ComPort,
d) Save the changed file and exit the MS-DOS command
prompt.
e) In the Device Manager panel, click on Generic IrDA
Compatible Device node.
f) Click on Remove and then Yes to remove this node
temporarily.
g) Click on Refresh, then Yes to register this node using the
new port definition.
h) Restart Windows 95.
This section describes how to disable unnecessary DOS/ W indows
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CD
CD-ROM device driver.
If you installed Windows 95 on a blank hard disk drive without
DOS and Windows, Windows 95 has automatically installed a
generic ATAPI CD-ROM device driver for your ThinkPad's
CD-ROM drive. You do not need to do the following procedure.
Go to "Installing the Enhanced Video/ M PEG Device Driver and
the Video CD Player for Windows 95" on page 212.
PNP 51
PNP 51