PCMCIA cards showing up as MTD-0002 no matter what I do

mtd-0002 :

http://www.elandigitalsystems.com/support/pfaq/mtd0002.php

http://www.driverforum.com/bios4/6813.html

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Notebooks_Wireless/Q_21406245.html

http://www.ndc.com.tw/support/insfaq/nwh61003.htm

I wonder if there is a conflict with a BIOS setting............        altho W2K... might give you a direction

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274509

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319326

sorry, meant to include this link also... fat fingers make big noses

Ok guys I am going to go through all of this link by link and see what I can accomplish!

Thanks for all your help guys! The most promising solution so far that was submitted is http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319326 - as a bonus that link also has the first real explanation of what MTD-0002 is and a technical explanation as to why it is happening! Whether I can fix it or not based off of this explanation remains to be seen. I did look up the memory resources that the pc card host adapter was using and it matched what the article described. BUT My biggest obstacle is finding PCMCIA.SYS version 5.1.2600.42... the version I have here is 5.1.2600.2180 which I THINK is less then 5.1.2600.42. But even if it is a higher version there is still the chance that the later versions of PCMCIA.SYS lost the "fix" they put in in version 42. SO IF ANYONE CAN FIND PCMCIA.SYS VERSION 5.1.2600.42 THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!! I don't think its included in SP2 because I tried reinstalling SP2 and I still have this version of pcmcia.sys in my %windir%\system32\drivers directory. So the fix they suggest in that article doesn't seem to work.. atleast not without PCMCIA.SYS version 5.1.2600.42!

Now for the rest:

regarding: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274509 and http://www.ndc.com.tw/support/insfaq/nwh61003.htm and http://www.driverforum.com/bios4/6813.html (same solution) unfortunately there is not any of those options in BIOS. Though I have upgraded my bios to the latest version to see if those settings might have been added in but still no dice. Its amazing how many others have this same problem. I tried just disabling the soundcard in windows device manager with no luck.

regarding: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Notebooks_Wireless/Q_21406245.html  - yep, I'm definetly not the only one :(

regarding: drivermagic, very good idea in practice but unfortunately it appears that software came bundled with adware of some kind. I figured it would even though the TOS didn't mention it. But after install suddenly a "search window" for altavista kept popping up. After I uninstalled it the window went away, FYI. Anyways the software didn't know what to do with the MTD card and I'm afraid to download any of the other drivers for fear of my adware but if I get more desperate I may try "their" drivers.... Most of the ones they suggest are ones you can't even download anyways since it just helpfully says "you can find this on the windows cd"


regarding: http://www.elandigitalsystems.com/support/pfaq/mtd0002.php - Huh. Very interesting. Though I'm not using their hardware I still tried to get the link to download the software but they never sent. Huh.

HMM.

If anyone can come up with that pcmcia.sys file I need, I tried googling for it for a while but maybe you will have better results then I, or if anyone has ANY OTHER links/ideas, then that would be great.. thanks!

PS

The significance of the number 42 here is not lost on me :P

Look here :pcmcia.sys

http://www.dynamiclink.nl/htmfiles/rframes/info_sys/info_p/19.htm

Thanks for the link to that pcmcia.sys file http://www.dynamiclink.nl/htmfiles/rframes/info_sys/info_p/19.htm ... unfortunately that site does not let you download the file. It appears to be the wrong version anyways though.

Keep trying!

some more Lite reading........ may/may not pertain

http://www.quatech.com/support/rs232cf_faq.php

i think you can extract it from the cab files

nobus-- which cab files are you referring to? The ones that come on the Windows XP cd? Thanks

oldgreguy- Hey that link gave me an idea and I was able to locate the Windows 2000 version of that pcmcia.sys file that has the fix mentioned in MS KB article 319326. I got it from here http://www.elandigitalsystems.com/support/supportfiles/hotfixq319326/English_UnitedStates/Q319326_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe but unfortunately thats only the 2000 file. I need Q319326_WXP_SP1_X86_EN.exe or Q319326_WXP_SP2_X86_EN.exe but cannot find it :(

And Microsoft doesn't seem to have it either.. I wish they had a repository of all their old fixes... if ANYONE has Q319326_WXP_SP1_X86_EN.exe then or Q319326_WXP_SP2_X86_EN.exe please help!

Thanks guys.

yes, the ones in the i386 folder let you extract them with the expand command
Create the test folder in the C: root, then use following command(if d: is your CD drive with the XP cd

expand d:\i386\pcmcia.sy_ c:\test

Master Tinkering Device indeed hehehe though in the msft kb article they say its a "memory card". Huh.

I will try to expand from the i386 folder to see what version of PCMCIA.SYS I can come up with.. so far I have yet to find 5.1.2600.42 which is what I think I need.

5.00.2195.6664..... win2K SP4
5.1.2600.2180........winXP SP2

these are the versions I found on the systems around here

Give me some more time to try out the solutions you both have provided and I'll award some points.

Just a few more days.

Well I tried all the solutions. No one could tell me the answer to what MTD meant, but that wasn't the primary objective. The primary objective was never achieved :( and I ended up getting a new laptop and putting this other
one to other non-wifi needed uses.

I will, however, split all the points between oldgreyguy and nobus, thanks for your efforts!

However I didn't do a good job of following up, sorry about that-- and I did not ever try installing one of those old pcmcia.sys files into windows to see if that would fix it. So if anyone else is looking for this, and I know they are, try that.

The thing that bothers me the most is that we never found a reasonable explanation for why it was doing this. I'm glad we tried though, it was a noble effort.

Asta la Windows Vista.

Its gonna be great.... VISTA comes along and all our problems will be solved.........................


thanks for stopping by EE

bill