PCMCIA cardbus driver not functioning

[Al M]

Ed,

I put another file up.  It is called Ed2.zip.  Let me know if that works for you.  Cheers.

Al M.

Applications Engineering

National Instruments

[In-Phase_Ed]

Hi Al,

All went well with your second upload.  I cleaned out my laptop as directed, however I still have the same issue associated with the non-loading cardbus driver for my PCMCIA port.  Uninstalled the driver and reinstalled it, rebooted and it still came up with error 31 indicating it could not load the driver.

I had to get back into the mode of LabVIEW programming, so I then loaded LV8.0 back on my laptop.  All went well until I attempted to load disc 1 of the drivers.  Got the following error message....

The installation of LV8.0 continued on in spite of this message and appeared to load everything I requested.  Needless to say, this message really surprised me after performing the "cleanup" associated with your downloaded files.

Anyway, as stated above, I now have LV8.0 on my laptop so I'm not sure exactly what we can do from this point forward regarding any further troubleshooting actions.  I'm sure you can understand the driving need for me to get back into the programming mode again...it was either that or get fired for lack of productivity!

Sure would like to be able to use my PCMCIA port again....

Ed

[Al M]

Ed,

I'm not sure why you would still have another installer/uninstaller service running even after you reboot.  You could try booting into safe mode to get this service to not run on startup.  Also, you could try simply going to Task Manager and stopping it before trying to load the drivers.  It's possible that something has become messed up in your registry since the initial incorrect install of the GPIB driver.

You would have to talk to the PCMCIA bus driver documentation to find out what, if anything, is wrong with it.  Cheers.

Al Majkrzak

Applications Engineering

National Instruments

[f.grasdepot@laposte.net]

Hi,

waooow ...

could you summarize what to do and not to do whan installing a PCMCIA
board on a PC having NI driver already installed please ...

Regards,

FG

[Al M]

FG,

If you already have the correct NI-488.2 driver installed for your device you can follow these directions:

Windows 2000/XP/Me/98, Macintosh

1. Reboot the computer. FG

2. If the PCMCIA-GPIB is not already inserted, insert it into a free PC Card (PCMCIA) socket.

The card has no jumpers or switches to set, and you do not need to power down the system when you insert it.

Windows NT (PCMCIA-GPIB only)

1. Power off your computer.

2. Insert the PCMCIA-GPIB into a free PC Card (PCMCIA) socket. The card has no jumpers or switches to set.

3. Power on your computer and start Windows.

This documentation can be found on page 70 of the following document:

http://digital.ni.com/manuals.nsf/websearch/48204060A7158413862570050046691F

Cheers.

Al M.

Applications Engineering

National Instruments