FireWire PCMCIA card wont work on my laptop!

[kormaster]

Bought this firewire pcmcia card from newegg.com Newegg.com link



USB IEEE 1394 2 Port Hi-Speed Card Bus PCMCIA for PC or Mac. The transfer rate are 400Mbit/sec, and very useful for DV, MO, HDD?etc, and some other devices with 1394 interface.
Specifications:
PCMCIA Type II
Fully supports provisions of IEEE 1394-1995 Standard for high-performance Serial Bus and the P13
Supports up to 63 devices that can be run simultaneously on a system
Supports Windows 98SE,Windows ME,Windows 2000,Windows XP
l Supports MAC OS 8.6 , 9.1

I connected an external firewire casing with a 48x LITEON CD-R... all to my laptop DELL LATITUDE C600

The card wont work.. has a big exclamation mark saying that the device is not availble.... tried again few hours later, the device is recognized but now there is memory conflict everywhere... IM SO MAD

SHould i just get myself a expensive name brand pcmcia card?? like adaptec or soemthing... sigh.. just was trying to save money... help!

 

[corkyg]

Sounds like you may be trying to use a 32 bit Cardbus PCMCIA card in a 16 bit slot. What year is your laptop?

 

[thorin]

Are you sure your laptop is "PCMCIA Type II" compatible.

Thorin

 

[kormaster]

Oh no... TYPE II not compatible with my laptop?
This laptop is only 1.5 yrs old... got it from my school last yr.. july of 2001 it is Dell Lattitude C600 model.... it should support TYPE for sure... this is the spec off the dell.com for my latptop
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CardBus controller Texas Instruments PCI 1420 CardBus controller
PC Card connectors two Type II cards in any combination;
one Type III card used only in the lower connector
The lower connector supports zoomed video (ZV) cards on computers running the Microsoft® Windows® 95 or Windows 98 operating system. The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 operating system does not support ZV.

Cards supported 3.3-V and 5-V
Type II and Type III PC Cards (including memory cards)

ATA cards that emulate IDE hard-disk drives

I/O cards such as modems, LAN cards, wireless LAN cards, and SCSI cards

PC Card connector size 68 pins
Data width (maximum):
PCMCIA
16 bits
CardBus
32 bits
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given that.. i still dont know what is wrong... help guys...

 

[kormaster]

bump please.. i really need help!

 

[kormaster]

come on people.. help me... please.

 

[FishTankX]

I'd try trying it ina friend's laptop, before you declare it non functional. If it is nonfunctional, RMA it. If it isn't nonfunctional, why not call their techsupport line (If they have one) and ask them what the memory conflcits and such, mean? Or maybe, even call the people that made your laptop, and see if they can help you.

 

[thorin]

Do you have trouble with any other PCMCIA cards? (Test both slots?). Did you call 1-800-HLP-DELL ?

Thorin