Hi! I just got my first hpc, a rather beat up
(but cheap
) MP780 from ebay, but the only thing giving me trouble is the CF slot.
Upon inserting a cf memory card, I get the "do you want to run on battery power?" message, then after pressing okay, it says "Unidentified PCCard Adapter / Enter the name of the driver for this PCCard," and in the entry box there are often differet names such as "unknown card in socket 2" or "network card", etc.
I've ruled out the cf memory cards, because I've tried several, and they all work fine in the 780's PC card slot with a cf-pcmcia adapter. Also, in netbsd, the error given is "bogus CIS." Since it doesn't work in netbsd, I don't think it's a windows driver problem, though I tried entering 'atadisk.dll' in the driver message box, as well as installing the OS update from nec.
Strangely enough, two or three times I've put in a card, and it has shown up in My Computer like normal, but 90% of the time, I get the error message.
As far as repair, I've tried cleaning the contacts with rubbing alcohol, which didn't help too much.. but I guess trying more cleaning would be a good plan. The pins don't appear bent either.. so I'm kind of stumped. any ideas would be greatly appreciated
But anyway, thanks for the great resource that this site is.. I've found so much information already