D600 + WinXP PRO SP2 - PCMCIA CF Card Reader Problem?

Question

After I installed SP2, I found that I can no longer use the PCMCIA - Compact Flash adaptor to access any CF memory card. The system can detect the card, and tries to install "PCMCIA IDE/ATAPI Controller" automatically. However, at the last stage of the installation, it says "An error ocurred during the installation of the device, Driver is not intended for this plaform."

Can anyone confirm this problem?

Any way to solve it?

By the way, everything else works find after the upgrade to SP2. I had the V09 of BIOS and upgraded to V13 after installed SP2.

Thanks!

rehlers · Answer

I wish I could help, I have the same exact problem. I actually put a fresh install of XP SP1 on first, then upgraded to SP2 immediately. My compact flash worked fine before, but now I get the exact same error you do. I have the exact same laptop. Here's all my hardware info:


WinXP Pro SP2
Latitude D600
512MB
Pentium M 1.6Ghz
40g drive
Dell Truemobile 300M Bluetooth module
Dell Truemobile 1450 Wireless module
SanDisk CompactFlash PC Card Adapter
Transcend CompactFlash 45X 512MB

_sNOW_ · Answer

i have the same problem either, but I installed windows xp with sp2 slipstreamed. (fresh install)

Before that, my notebook ran with winxp + sp1 without any problems.

Here's my hardware configuration:

XP + SP 2
DELL INSPIRON 8200
512 MB RAM
60 GB HDD
NoName PC Card Adapter (CF Type I + II)
Transcend CF 45x 256 MB + IBM Microdrive 1 GB

It seems, that this is a common problem - i hope M$ will fix this error soon!

so long

sNOW

rehlers · Answer

Great news! I got it working. I hope this works for everyone, but what I did was:

1) Download the latest driver from Dell for 'Intel Mobile Chipset', and install it.

2) Pop my flash card in, go to the control panel. You'll see the driver for it listed with a little yellow !. Right click on it, chose uninstall.

3) Once uninstalled, remove flash card. Now plug the card back in.

4) Windows searches around for the driver, and this time it actually installed correctly and let me use my compact flash!

Good Luck!

binaryni · Answer

I had no luck trying what you did. By the way, do you install the latest PCMCIA driver? Message Edited by binaryni on 09-03-2004 01:42 AM

rehlers · Answer

hmm, i don't believe so, I do not remember ever installing a PCMCIA driver specifically

_sNOW_ · Answer

hello, i installed the latest chipset driver, but there's still no go! any good news? greets sNOW

Arouet · Answer

Hi,

I tried the following as suggested by someone:

1) Download the latest driver from Dell for 'Intel Mobile Chipset', and install it.

I ended up having the machine requesting an emergency rescue disk! I was able to recover by booting from the XP installation disk, but it was quite a scare.

BTW, the driver now works -- I can read the Sandisk CompactFlash reader. Go figure....

binaryni · Answer

My Inspiron 4150 has the same problem.

binaryni · Answer

Finaly find a solution:

http://www.intrasection.com/pjmorr/archives/2004/08/driver_is_not_intended_for_this_platform.html

basically rename windows\system32\drivers\atapi.sys to atapi.sys.old

insert the cf-pcmcia adaptor IMMEDIATELY after the renaming

if you can not rename the file, get this wonderful freeware:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

search file handle "atapi.sys" to see which process opened it, then close that handle

then you can do the renaming

Good Luck!

Message Edited by binaryni on 11-09-2004 12:02 AM

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