Hi,
I;m not holding my breath with this one as it seems fairly complicated.
OS: Win XP SP2
Laptop: Dell Latitude C400
Problem Device: Wireless LAN PCI Card (realtek 8180)
This laptop is fairly old, which I happily use for web browsing and not much else. Due to it's age, I use the Wireless card in the PCMCIA slot (Only 1 slot available). Recently, it failed when I inserted the card. When checking Device Manager I get 9 occurences of the same device under "Unknown Devices". PCI Device with #2 to #8 after each duplicated occurence.
All have the message above.
I have thoroughly searched the internet and have found other topics, but none mention the multiple occurence under unknown devices that I could find.
Attempted fixes include re-installing the driver, failed.
Changing permisions in the registry, failed.
Restoring registry to a prior date, failed.
deleting registry keys, Which changed the (#2 to #8) to (#9 to 15#), failed.
I have also found suggestions of clearing the driver cache, and also checking msinfo32 to no avail.
BTW: The card works fine in another machine.
I also have a PCMCIA USB 2.0 card which does not even register when pushed into this slot. Other suggestions include IRQ settings which I now nothing about.
When checking the resource tab, it states the device is not using resource because it has a problem.
Can anyone think of a way I can revive my PCI Device in this PC, or is the PC slot completely stuffed? Is there anyway to check the PC slot is OK?
Software?/Hardware? I don't know.
Many thanks
Kempes
I;m not holding my breath with this one as it seems fairly complicated.
OS: Win XP SP2
Laptop: Dell Latitude C400
Problem Device: Wireless LAN PCI Card (realtek 8180)
This laptop is fairly old, which I happily use for web browsing and not much else. Due to it's age, I use the Wireless card in the PCMCIA slot (Only 1 slot available). Recently, it failed when I inserted the card. When checking Device Manager I get 9 occurences of the same device under "Unknown Devices". PCI Device with #2 to #8 after each duplicated occurence.
All have the message above.
I have thoroughly searched the internet and have found other topics, but none mention the multiple occurence under unknown devices that I could find.
Attempted fixes include re-installing the driver, failed.
Changing permisions in the registry, failed.
Restoring registry to a prior date, failed.
deleting registry keys, Which changed the (#2 to #8) to (#9 to 15#), failed.
I have also found suggestions of clearing the driver cache, and also checking msinfo32 to no avail.
BTW: The card works fine in another machine.
I also have a PCMCIA USB 2.0 card which does not even register when pushed into this slot. Other suggestions include IRQ settings which I now nothing about.
When checking the resource tab, it states the device is not using resource because it has a problem.
Can anyone think of a way I can revive my PCI Device in this PC, or is the PC slot completely stuffed? Is there anyway to check the PC slot is OK?
Software?/Hardware? I don't know.
Many thanks
Kempes