PCMCIA-GPIB on a PCI-PCMCIA adaptor in desktop does not work

[fpataro]

I installed a PCMICA-GPIB card on a desktop running windows XP using a PCI-PCMCIA adaptor.
The software is version 2.1. The system sees the card but when the Wizard tries to talk to it it gets an unknown error. Has anybody experience this problem.

[NI-488.2 master]

PCI-PCMCIA adapters can be quite a pain to get working correctly. I usually have to do some registry tweaking to get things to work properly.

Go to the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Pcmcia\Parameters

Look for the following DWORD values in the key:
DisableIsaToPciRouting
Interrupt

If those DWORD values don't exist, create them. I believe that DisableIsaToPciRouting should be set to 0. I believe that Interrupt should be set to 1. You may need to play with these values a bit.

Refer to these Microsoft KBs for some more info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;257458
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327947

I hope this info helps you out.


Craig A.
National Instruments Engineer

[fpataro]

Craig,

I added the DWORD values to the registry, but it did not make a difference.

Thank you for the input.
Francisco