Re: Inspiron 8000 - No PCMCIA after installing Vista SP1
- From: "Paul8" <ubrugelig@xxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:18:14 +0200
"Greg Lovern" <gregl@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse
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Ever since installing SP1 for Vista, I can't use the PCMCIA ports on
my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop. They were working fine with Vista until
I installed SP1.
I have a PCMCIA to USB 2.0 adapter, and a PCMCIA to CompactFlash
adapter. When they stopped working after installing SP1, I thought
maybe they were incompatible, so I went to Fry's and bought new ones
that both said they were compatible with Vista.
But I have the same problem with the new ones.
I also have a USB flash drive. It still works fine in the built-in USB
1.1 port, but no longer lights up in the USB 2.0 adapter for the
PCMCIA port. It worked fine there before installing SP1.
Device manager shows no problem at all -- nothing yellow or red.
I tried uninstalling the PCMCIA drivers and rebooting. It reinstalled
them, and they say they're working fine in Device Manager, but still
the same problem.
I tried uninstalling all USB stuff and rebooting. It reinstalled the
USB stuff, and everything still looks fine in Device Manager, but it
still didn't work.
Any suggestions?
Revert back to XP.
You can get XP to work almost like Vista if you want:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9026940
In my family, we are still using several Inspiron 8000 with XP.
The 1600x1200 display is wonderfull.
But sometimes we have to screw down from 32 to 16bit color in order to get optimal
operation.
I don't think it would be a good idea to use Vista on those laptops....
By the way: on one of them, one of the 2 pcmcia is out of order. Some pins are smashed
down.
Have a look at that may be....
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