Removing/Reinstalling PCMCIA Drivers

[jerry4dos]

Does anybody have a good tip for "forcing" Win95 to re-install PCMCIA drivers?

Sometimes a driver installation goes wrong, and I wind up with an incomplete set of drivers, but not incomplete enough for Windows to recognize the incompleteness and call for the driver installation CD again.

I can remove the PCMCIA socket driver shown in MY COMPUTER/PROPERTIES, and it gets reinstalled at the next boot, but all the card drivers that were there before I removed the socket driver are still there.

My solution has been to reinstall Win95 and start fresh. (This is a "test" computer, so this is not a big problem, but it's still a nuisance.)

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Jerry

[Robert M]

Hmm..
PCMCIA cards should automatically load the correct driver if they are supported.
How can you be sure the drivers are not completely loaded?

Not sure if this would work.
What if you loaded the correct real mode PCMCIA driver for the intended PCMCIA card?

Do you have the real mode driver for the PCMCIA card?

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;136553

[jerry4dos]

Hi Robert:

How can you be sure the drivers are not completely loaded?

During the initial "Windows has detected new hardware" sequence, Windows asked me for the location of the driver installation disk. During the installation, an error message appeared: "Setup has detected the following decoding error 'Cannot read this setup (.CAB) file.' Setup will attempt to recover from this situation."

Now, when Windows boots, the new device appears as "working" in my System Tray, but it is not actually working. I think SOME of the drivers were loaded (but not all), and Windows thinks it is installed already -- so it doesn't ask where the driver installation disk is.

I downloaded a new driver package from the Internet, but I don't know how to get Windows to ask me for the location of the driver installation disk again. The only way I have found to get that option again is to reformat and reinstall Windows.

What if you loaded the correct real mode PCMCIA driver for the intended PCMCIA card?

I don't know how to test this card in "real mode" (at a Command Prompt, according to your MS link). I've only been able to make my PCMCIA cards work after I've run the "32-bit PCMCIA Card Socket Wizard", which, I think, means they are running in "Protected Mode."

Thanks for your interest. I'm bookmarking the MS link you sent -- maybe something will "click" in my head someday, and all this will suddenly make sense. In any event, my card is now installed and working, which the important thing.

Jerry

[Murf]

1. From Control Panel, select Add/Remove Hardware, click Next
Select No, click Next

2. Scroll down the list of hardware types, select PCMCIA socket, click Next
Click Have Disk...

3. Enter the location of the driver files, and select OK

4. Ensure that "PCMCIA Controller" is highlighted, and click Next

You will be warned that the I/O range has been set to 03E0-03E1 (or similiar) - this is fine; click Next

5.You will be asked to insert your original Windows 95 media, and files will be copied to the hard drive

6.Click Finish

7. You will now be taken through the PCMCIA Wizard, which will help you configure 32-bit PCMCIA support. You may be prompted to allow a removal of previous drivers you have tried to install - this is OK.

[jerry4dos]

Hi Murf:

I'll give it a try when I get back from vacation.

I know I've tried REMOVING the PCMCIA Controller from the DEVICES list, and then Windows will take me through the 32-bit Wizard again, but I've never been prompted for "removal of previous drivers". After I get through the Wizard, the System Tray icon still displays the non-working PCMCIA device as "working OK."

I'll poke around some more next week. Thanks.

Jerry

[Murf]

Vacation WHAT"S THAT

If your on Vacation what are you doing in VRDR, you just love us too much....

[jerry4dos]

I know -- Can you spell "addiction"?

[Robert M]

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;140901
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;171787