NI-FBUS PC-Card detected wrong

[Markus Klein]

We want to use PCMCIA-FBUS Series 2  PC Cards in new Dell laptops with Windows 7 64 bit.

After installation of nifbsw401.exe and a reboot, I am inserting a NI-FBUS PC Card.

The FBUS card is not detected as NI PCMCIA-FBUS card, but as PCMCIA MTD-0002.

The driver for this card is then not found and I can't use the card.

The behaviour is identical with several of our NI PCMCIA-FBUS cards and with two identical Dell Laptops in every combination.

The cards are working fine on other laptops.

Is this problem known and are there any solutions known?

Thanks

[Really_Two]

Hi, You said it can work in some other laptop. Are these laptops also installed with Windows 7 64 bit OS?

[Markus Klein]

Yes, the cards are working fine on other laptops with Win 7 64 bit, also on other desktop machines with PCMCIA-PCI slots.

In the meantime, I found that PCMCIA MTD-0002 is a kind of default manufacturer id if there goes something wrong reading the card identification.

When I'm starting an emergency windows booting from CD based on Win 7 32 bit, I also get MTD-0002 as identification

My guess is now, that the NI-FBUS PC Cards are not compatible with the PCMCIA slot and/or the board chipset of this Dell Laptop.

Are there any experiences from other users with PCMCIA slots in Laptops that are not working with the NI-FBUS cards?

[LastOne]

What's the model, or service tag of your Dell laptop?

If possible, please try to find another PCMCIA card (not NI-FBUS PC card) to test if the PCMCIA slot and controller works well.

Here are some suggestions:

1. Upgrade BIOS driver to the latest version.
2. Upgrade PCMCIA (SmartCard) controller driver to the latest version.

[Markus Klein]

I upgraded the BIOS and the Chipset/PCMCIA drivers earlier without any improvement.

In the meantime I tested the PCMCIA slot with 4 other PCMCIA cards.

2 of them results in a blue screen, 2 others also have an unknown manufacturer id.

I will contact Dell support, this looks like a hardware problem of my Dell Latitude E5520.

Thanks for the hints.

[Tako Riet]

Hello Markus Klein,

Any news on this problem?

Regards,

Tako

[Markus Klein]

Dell changed the motherboard of the laptop and now PCMCIA cards are working, also NI-FBUS Series 2 cards.

Therefore this was not a problem of incompatibility or the NI-FBUS card but of the Laptop PCMCIA card slot itself.

We will need to have the board of the second identical laptop also changed.

This seems like a general problem from dell which is solved in the meantime, but I could not get more exact information about this.

Thanks for the useful hints to solve this problem.