Dear All,

I am probably boring everyone to death with my problem... but hang in plzzz

Short: when i insert a PC Card in my PCMCIA drive, the computer crashes.

Facts:
- Dell 5100 Inspiron (2,4 Mhz; about a year old. All firmware updates installed)
- Windows XP Home (all the updates installed)
- PC Card: Tornado 211G 802.11G (same problems reported with D-Link, Netgeat, Belkin, et cetera)

When is de-activate the CardBus controller drive, i can insert the PC Card. But as soon as the driver is activated again, the laptop crashes.

I tried to install the drivers for the PC Card first: no luck.

I don't want to jump into conclusions, but there seems to be a problem with the CardBus Drive driver. The CardBus drive is a Texas Instruments PCI-4410.
There are no new drivers (5.1.2600.0, dated 1-7-2001, digitaly signed MS))

Surfing the internet, i found a lot of victims (the Compaq Evo 1020N has the same problems... and the same CardBus drive).

On the microsoft support site, i found:
( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;295629 )

CAUSE
On an ACPI-enabled computer that uses certain Texas Instruments CardBus controllers, inserting a CardBus card that does not support power management can result in a continuously asserted Power Management event (PME) being signal by the controller. This causes the card to be continuously re-enumerated.

But this article is about ME en 98... not XP...

Dell doesn't want to help me, i cannot go to Micro$oft for support (OEM Dell...) the shop where i bought the PC Card (Beat It: NEVER buy there...) doesn't want to take the stuff back. Tornado, manufacturer of the PC Card, is looking for a sollution too. (i keep THEM posted :-) )

So... anyone?