Can anyone suggest why a machine which has been working perfectly well suddenly hangs during bootup while loading IBM2SS14.SYS?


This happened to me yesterday with a Thinkpad 600 which I've had for several years. If I comment out the line in CONFIG.SYS with IBM2SS14.SYS it boots fine, but obviously without network capability. If I leave it in, it hangs within 10 secs of booting whilst displaying that IBM2SS14.SYS is being loaded (using Alt-F2 at boot).


I have tried changing the version of the driver, as well as Dani's versions of the driver to no avail.

Could this be some sort of hardware problem?