PCMCIA Cards being ID'd as MDT-0002

[Guest 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.