A Yellow Exclamation Point May Be Displayed on the ATA Flash Card Entry in Device Manager While the Laptop Is Docked (320048)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
This article was previously published under Q320048

SYMPTOMS

For certain laptop computers, if an ATA Flash Card device is present in the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) device slot while the computer is inserted in the docking station (hot-docked), a yellow exclamation point (!) may be displayed on the ATA Flash Card entry in Device Manager. The ATA Flash Card device does not work while the yellow exclamation point is present.

WORKAROUND

To work around this issue, remove the ATA Flash Card device from the PCMCIA device slot before you insert the computer into the docking station, and then reinsert the ATA Flash Card device after you successfully dock the computer.

REFERENCES

For additional information about this issue, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

295629 Enumeration Problems with Cardbus Cards in Texas Instruments Cardbus Controllers

276602 Device Manager Reports Code 10 for Device and Does Not Assign an Available IRQ

268452 Multiple-Function Cardbus Adapters Are Assigned Overlapped Resources

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Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:1/14/2006
Keywords:kbHardware kbprb KB320048
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