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Transnote PCMCIA Weird?
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:18 pm
by fuji_man
OK, I just got a new IBM Thinkpad USB 2.0 cardbus for my Transnote. While the unit will detect all the PCMCIA cards I throw at it except for a no name USB card, it refuse to even detect the card.
I am running XP and the thing doesn't even detect any hardware change when card is inserted.
What could be wrong here? Could it be voltage or what. I read that this card will work with transnote, and I really like to have USB 2.0 for this thing could anyone help me, please
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:30 pm
by whizkid
Welcome to the forum!
I'm guessing you might need a driver for the card.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:50 pm
by fuji_man
Thanks for the welcome
Well, I don't even able to get the driver thing yet, it is not even detect the present of the card to allow loading of the driver, it is as if the card is never there to begin with.
I try booting the thing with the card inserted while connected to my USB key with LED indicator, but the LED light never light up all though the bootup, so seems that it is not getting power or something, but I don't get why would all other pcmcia card get power but not this one...
Give me some time, I will try this sucker on another laptop to make sure it works............
What is the chances a new card don't work......
Any suggestion in the mean time will still be great, thanks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:46 pm
by andyP
Are you by any chance running win98? in which case whizkid is probably right.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:52 pm
by fuji_man
As my original stated, I am running XP
Also about the inkmanager, beside downloading it anyone know how to extract it from the recovery disc?
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:56 pm
by andyP
oops, missed that - sorry
have you the possibility to try the card in another notebook? If it still isn't recognised, I'd tip that the card is a dud.
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:33 pm
by fuji_man
I just get a chance to plug it into another thinkpad T42 it is detecting prefectly... so WTF could be wrong????
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:18 pm
by fuji_man
so no one is able to give me any suggestion?
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:45 am
by fuji_man
Ok, more info for whoever understand this.
I went into Event Viewer of XP and an error under PCMCIA shows up went I inserted the card
I read that error 10 is a power issue, but I turn off all the not needed items like infrared and disable PCI power managment, but still not doing it.
BTW my bios is 1.02, anyone have the same bios and able to run the card? Also the sort works with my wifi card and the usb card will work on a different thinkpad so I dunno what is the issue
Please anyone after reading this have any idea of how to fix it, please let me know
This is what it say
Source: PCMCIA
EventID: 10
Description
The description for Event ID ( 10 ) in Source ( Pcmcia ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: \Device\Pcmcia0.