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Please Help! sTUMPED THREE TECHS ALREADY!
here is the error messege I receive when trying to install a PCMCIA ethernet card to my laptop. I have 160MB of ram.
"windows is not able to identify or use the insertyed PC card device because there is no memory area available to communicate with the device. You must make a memory area available before this device can be used. Check your computers CONFIG.SYS file for a memory manager that is excluding upper memory regions between A000 and FFFF. Can anyone help me fix this . I really need to be able to use the DSL line I am payiong 50.00 a month for! I would greatly appreciate any help!
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Senior Member
You lost me.
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Ultimate Member
What O/S are you using? Can you post here the contents of your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat ? Did you enable 32 -bit PC card support in Add/Remove Programs ? Did you install the drivers or correct drivers? When do you get the error ?
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Here is my config.sys contents
DEVICE=C:\PROGRA~1\NET200~1\N2000.SYS 1950
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
REM [Header]
REM == PISETUP Begin Delete ==
REM == PISETUP End Delete ==
REM [CD-ROM Drive]
REM [Miscellaneous]
REM [Display]
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and autoexec.bat
SET DOS16M=2
REM [Header]
@ECHO OFF
REM [CD-ROM Drive]
REM [Miscellaneous]
REM [Display]
SET PATH=C:\PROGRA~1\ORGANI~1;%PATH%
My OS is Win 98
Thanks!
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HI, I tried to find "Did you enable 32 -bit PC card support in Add/Remove Programs ? " the place where you can do this in Add/remove however I can't find an option for this. I have the installation disk with the drivers.
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Ultimate Member
Open Device Manager and see if you have a listing for PCMCIA ethernet or socket? Double click it if you do and view the resource tab for memory range . Actually you can go to System Info in Accessories and select Hardware resources and memory for a complete listing and see whats assigned memory regions between A000 and FFFF. Its been awhile since I had a laptop, but I remember enabling this. A wizard I think. The socket does needs to be enabled, and it may already be enabled. Look to see in Device Manager , PCMCIA prop. that its "Enabled in this Configuration". If so , I'd say your ok.
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Ultimate Member
Its not referring to physical memory, but the memory range. As Rocketmech has explained.
Go into bios and set any unused ports (ie: comm, lpt, serial ports) to none. Reboot the laptop into safe mode and remove any of these devices from Device Manager. Reboot the system and check the pcmcia card.
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Ultimate Member
Also, while in Device Manager, check to see if its sharing the same Memory Range with any other device. Especially the video.
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HI Guys!
Here is the memory range info
x00000000 - x0009FFFF System board extension for ACPI BIOS
x000A0000 - x000AFFFF RAGE MOBILITY AGP (English)
x000B0000 - x000BFFFF RAGE MOBILITY AGP (English)
x000C0000 - x000CBFFF RAGE MOBILITY AGP (English)
x000E0000 - x000FFFFF System board extension for ACPI BIOS
x0A000000 - x0A000FFF Texas Instruments PCI-1225 CardBus Controller
x0A001000 - x0A001FFF Texas Instruments PCI-1225 CardBus Controller
x0A002000 - x0A0020FF Actiontec 56K V.90 Modem
xF4100000 - xF4100FFF RAGE MOBILITY AGP (English)
xF4100000 - xF5FFFFFF Intel 82443BX Pentium(r) II Processor to AGP controller
xF4120000 - xF413FFFF RAGE MOBILITY AGP (English)
xF5000000 - xF5FFFFFF RAGE MOBILITY AGP (English)
xF8000000 - xFBFFFFFF Intel 82443BX Pentium(r) II Processor to PCI bridge (with GART support)
xFFF80000 - xFFFFFFFF Motherboard resources
Would you be able to tell if there should be something there that isn't supposed to be. You guys are starting to talk a bit out of my realm of knowledge(sorry) but I am great at following directions!
Thanks for the help, I will keep trying, if you have any more suggestions ...-Karyn
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Ultimate Member
Is this memory range list from viewing them from Device Manager? Or clicking Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information, click the + on Hardware Resources, Memory
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Ultimate Member
Some graphics cards specify and exclude memory regions.
I can't remember if this applies to ATI but offers some food for thought.
More.
You can check system.ini for a quick check.
eg:
[386Enh]
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
ebios=*ebios
woafont=app850.fon
mouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd
device=*dynapage
device=*vcd
device=*vpd
device=*int13
keyboard=*vkd
display=*vdd,*vflatd
EMMExclude=C000-CFFF ************ *
;Rem TShoot: MaxPhysPage=137FF
MaxPhysPage=12DFF
PageBuffers=32
DMABufferSize=64
Paging=off
device=dva.386
********** look for this line managing memory ranges
and research the relevant hardware documentation.
Last edited by herosrest; 05-12-2002 at 12:34 PM.
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Mod w/ an attitude
If you are using anything from Win95 up to WinXP then you can rename your config.sys file to config.old and rename your autoexec.bat file to autoexec.old and reboot.
All Windows will run without these files. I never allow either of these files on my machines. Manually assigning values and loading drivers went out in the DOS only days. I am very suspicious of the line "DEVICE=C:\PROGRA~1\NET200~1\N2000.SYS 1950 ".
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If all else fails return the PCMCIA card and buy a USB network adapter I think I paid $10-20US for mine and it works like a charm.
You may also be able to Install windows over your current installation (DO NOT FORMAT) with the PCMCIA card in your laptop this has fixed numerous issues of this type for me. You may have to install your programs again depending on your OS, but you will be able to save your data in a new location so you do not loose any of it.
Best of luck to ya,
Arizona
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Wow! Thanks guys! I will work on your suggestions and post the results. As per this question from an earlier reply
Is this memory range list from viewing them from Device Manager? Or clicking Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information, click the + on Hardware Resources, Memory
The memory range was from Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information, click the + on Hardware Resources, Memory.
Does this tell you anything?
Karyn
You all are much appreciated.
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Ultimate Member
Do a search for the file system.ini.
Don't alter it.
Check the section headed [386Enh]
for reference to memory ranges.
You may have an entry similar to : EMMExclude=C000-CFFF.
If so, the specified memory is being reserved for a hardware device.
This will or won't indicate an area to focus upon.
Last edited by herosrest; 05-12-2002 at 10:45 PM.
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