Port, Inc.
Port Portable 24X PC Card CD-ROM driver installation
Driver installation
for Windows 95/98
* IMPORTANT *
This disk is not needed for installation under Windows 95/98. The
drivers needed by the MicroCD should be contained within your Windows
files. If a driver file is reported as missing during the installation
of the MicroCD under Windows 95/98, please verify the existance of the
MSHDC.INF file within your Windows files or contact your PC manufacturer.
If the DOS PCMCIA software layer was already installed on your
machine when Windows 95 was first installed, you should be able to
edit the CONFIG.SYS file and see that the lines concerning the
PCMCIA socket drivers have been REMarked out. Normally, the
Windows 95 Installation Wizard REMarks out these lines when it
detects both a PLug & Play PCMCIA hardware and a Plug & Play machine
BIOS at installation time.
There are at least two such lines, one for the Socket Services
driver and the other for the Card Services driver. An example is
given below:
'REM Socket Services Driver : DEVICE = XXXXSS.SYS'
'REM Card Services Driver : DEVICE = XXXXCS.SYS'
If these lines are not REMarked out in CONFIG.SYS, you should try
again to install the appropriate Windows 95/98 PCMCIA Socket Driver
from the Windows 95/98 Control Panel running the program 'Add New
Hardware'. If this does not succeed, i.e. if the above lines are
not eventually REMarked out, this probably means that your machine
does not support Plug & Play PCMCIA and that you can only install
traditionnal so-called REAL MODE DOS drivers. In this case,
follow the manual instructions to install the DOS and Windows 3.x
PCMCIA CDROM drivers which should still work fine under Windows 95 in
REAL MODE.
To check that the PCMCIA socket hardware has been dully recognized
and installed by the Windows 95/98 Installation Wizard, you should
see your PCMCIA socket hardware in the list of installed devices
given by the 'Device Manager' (click on 'System' in the 'Control
Panel' and then 'Device Manager' to display the list of installed
devices).
When the CDROM PCMCIA card is first plugged into one of the
PCMCIA sockets, once the PCMCIA socket hardware has been mounted by
Windows 95/98, the Installation Wizard will pop up a window informing
you that a new piece of hardware has just been found and
request you to select a driver for this new hardware from the
following options :
. Windows default driver,
. Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer,
. Do not install a driver,
. Select from a list of alternate drivers.
Select the second option, 'Windows default driver'
and follow the instructions given by the Installation Wizard.
The CDROM drive should be recognized after installation without
rebooting.
If by mistake, you have installed some other driver than
the 'Standard ESDI/IDE driver', which you can check from the list
of installed hardware from the Device Manager under the 'Hard Disks'
heading, you should Remove this driver from the list, pull out the CDROM
card from the PCMCIA slot, insert it back and start the installion
anew.
There should be now two new entries in the list of devices displayed by
the Device Manager, one under the heading 'CDROM' which shows the
model of CDROM drive (e.g. TOSHIBA CDROM XM5xxx) and one extra entry under
'Hard Drives' with the name of the device driver 'Standard ESDI/IDE driver'.
In most cases, there should be two such entries, one for the internal
IDE hard drive and another for the CDROM drive. The same driver is
used for the CDROM hard drives and CDROM drives.
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.