PCMCIA on laptop stopped working for no reason.

[notfred]

A friend of mine was over earlier with his 400mhz P2 laptop. He was using a netgear PCMCIA 10/100 nic, and a PCMCIA netgear 802.11b card. Anyway, another friend of mine gave him an old PCMCIA modem. He plugged it in, windows recognized it, and he continued working with the other two cards. Next time he shut the machine down and booted it up, none of his PCMCIA cards would work. Any suggestions would be helpful. He'd post this himself but all his network cards don't work.

 

[fell8]

Go into the device manager and look for problems.

 

[notfred]

Best advice ever. Next time my car breaks down, remind me to "open up the hood and look for problems".

 

[fell8]

What if it's the trans or in-tank fuel pump?

 

[The Stigenator]

guys

the card controller works (meaning windows 2000) sees the card controller controlling the pcmcia slots. but the slots dont work.

i feel they might have blown. I set the system for shutdown and while it was doing so I switched the cards around (i gave back the network cable to tai)..

I assume that might have caused it but i have done that before.. i am afraid i might have shorted the port (not the cards).

Is that replaceable? Its a dell latitude CPi-R400GT.

this sucks, my new place is quite small so bringing up a huge monitor and desktop is useless.. and more over I would like to have wifi access at school. Right now I am in my department computer.

Do help..

Tyler.. i will buzz ya in a while.

 

[newbiepcuser]

Originally posted by: fell8
Go into the device manager and look for problems.

Go into the device manager, look for yellow exclamination marks (!). See if windows can give you description of the problem such as device driver etc.

1. If its device driver, reinstall the device driver. Most of the time they should be located in the winnt\system32 folder for Windows 2000/XP.

2. 2nd option, with the cards inserted. Delete the items in the hardware manager. Reboot the system. You can insert one card at a time and let Windows rebuild the device driver.

3. The_good_guy might be right on the failure of the hardware. Esp if they are no errors showing up in device manager.


Good luck, sorry if I couldn't help you more.

 

[The Stigenator]

im going to delete the cardbus manager, but i doubt that is it..

tyler and I plan to take it apart today to see if there is anything we can do.. but I highly doubt it.. I think my PCMCIA slots are toast..

and that's what I am going to go with for the moment.