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Bob M.
I have a Dell Latitude c840 laptop that I have been trying to get several
different PCMCIA cards to be recognized and installed properly. It is a p4
1.6 ghz with 2 gbyte ram running XP Pro sp2. One is an Orinoco Silver wifi
card, and the other an RS232 serial port card. In each case, the system
identifies them as an MDT-0002. It did the same thing with a D-Link DFE-650
ethernet card. Also, when I inserted a 3Com 3CXM556 modem, the system called
it an MDT-0000 and said it was a generic PCMCIA memory card. No matter what
kind of PCMCIA device I put in, the computer won't recognize it for what it
really is. System Information indicates this has TI PCI-4551 Cardbus
controllers. The PCMCIA.SYS driver is dated 07/01/2001 and is version
5.1.2600.0. I have tried deleting and reinstalling the drivers for the
cardbus device, but it has no effect on the problem. I have read elsewhere
that it supposedly is related to a Microsoft memory allocation error and that
there was suppose to be a fix in SP2, but that's what my system says I have.
Dell told me the motherboard went bad, which I find hard to believe since
others have reported this error with different machines. I have also read
that I need to find an earlier version driver, but have been unable to do so.
I tried replacing the driver with one from a Windows 2000 machine, but the
Windows automatic file protection feature is not allowing me to overwrite the
existing file.
different PCMCIA cards to be recognized and installed properly. It is a p4
1.6 ghz with 2 gbyte ram running XP Pro sp2. One is an Orinoco Silver wifi
card, and the other an RS232 serial port card. In each case, the system
identifies them as an MDT-0002. It did the same thing with a D-Link DFE-650
ethernet card. Also, when I inserted a 3Com 3CXM556 modem, the system called
it an MDT-0000 and said it was a generic PCMCIA memory card. No matter what
kind of PCMCIA device I put in, the computer won't recognize it for what it
really is. System Information indicates this has TI PCI-4551 Cardbus
controllers. The PCMCIA.SYS driver is dated 07/01/2001 and is version
5.1.2600.0. I have tried deleting and reinstalling the drivers for the
cardbus device, but it has no effect on the problem. I have read elsewhere
that it supposedly is related to a Microsoft memory allocation error and that
there was suppose to be a fix in SP2, but that's what my system says I have.
Dell told me the motherboard went bad, which I find hard to believe since
others have reported this error with different machines. I have also read
that I need to find an earlier version driver, but have been unable to do so.
I tried replacing the driver with one from a Windows 2000 machine, but the
Windows automatic file protection feature is not allowing me to overwrite the
existing file.