Type II PC Card in Inspiron 8200?

Studiorecluse,

Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.
Yes, the system will support a Type-II PC Card.
Here are the PC Card specs:
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CardBus controller
Texas Instruments PCI 4450/4451 CardBus controller
PC Card connector
Supports two Type I or Type II cards or one Type III card)
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Dear Karell,

Read your comments on the above.  I need some help as well.

Mine is I8100 and I've bought a Hi-Speed USB2.0 Notebook Card which cited a system requirement of 32-bit Type II Cardbus slot.  I tried it on my I8100 and it's installing okay but not coming up with USB 2 port.  Is this not compatible with the adapters which I can see are the Texas Instruments PCI-4451 Cardbus Controller.

I'm afraid I'm no expert in this field and it's frustrating when all you want is get your USB2 Hi-Speed Portable HDD going.

Thanks.

Chris

Ceepee,

What is the brand/model of the card you purchased?

Karell,

It's Belkin Hi-Speed USB2.0 Notebook Card and it says 'installs easily into any 32-bit TypeII CardBus slot.

Chris

Ceepee,

Ok, when you say "it is not coming up with USB 2.0 ports" what do you mean?
Does the card not show up in device manager?
If you connect devices to the card, do they not show up?
USB device work with the card, but not at USB 2.0 speed?
Does the card include a power adapter?
If so, does it work when you attach the power adapter to it?
What operating system are you using?

If it is a resource conflict, you can try turning off different devices in the bios.
Try turning off things like, parallel port, serial port, infrared port, Smart CPU, ect.
Then see if the card works. If the card works go back into the system bios and turn on one
device at a time, until you find the device that was causing the problem.

Karell,

In answer to your questions:

The card shows up in device manager but instead of showing USB 2.0 Port Hub, it was showing USB Port Hub.  Devices connected to the card like 128mb storage devices show up alright, with drives allocated to them.  However, when connecting a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Portable HDD, a message appears in 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon that I'm connecting a Hi-Speed device to a non-Hi-Speed device, etc...  Following this, no drive is allocated and I cannot use the storage device (ie the Hi-Speed Portable HDD) at all.

A power adapter is included and it makes no difference.

I'm using XP Pro.

Resource conflict?  How do I go about turning them off without messing my computer about?

The system requirement in the Belkin Hi-Speed USB2.0 Notebook card does read 'PC-compatible laptop computer with available 32-bit Type II CardBus slot'.

Does this mean that my PC card slot is not compatible?

Thanks.

Chris