Article ID: 310772
Article Last Modified on 5/17/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
This article was previously published under Q310772
SYMPTOMS
A Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) device that works correctly in Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, and Microsoft Windows 2000, may not work correctly in Windows XP. If this problem occurs, a black exclamation point (!) on a yellow field is displayed on the device in Device Manager. Additionally, no resources will be allocated to the device.
CAUSE
This problem can occur if the PCMCIA device has its configuration information in common (working) memory instead of attribute memory (where the Card information structure (CIS) and configuration registers are mapped). The Pcmcia.sys driver in Windows XP does not recognize such devices, and because of this, does not allocate resources to the device.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322389 How to Obtain the Latest Windows XP Service Pack
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:
Date Time Version Size File name Platform
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25-Oct-2001 08:07 5.1.2600.17 116,352 Pcmcia.sys Intel
25-Oct-2001 08:07 5.1.2600.17 310,784 Pcmcia.sys ia64
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows XP Service Pack 1.
Additional query words: pc card
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