I am trying to install a cardbus adaptor for my laptop but the intall wizard keeps coming up with "Could not install hardware, an error occured during installation of the device a service installation section in this INF is invalid" What can I do?? Cheers in advance.

try going to the products website, and downloading a driver or installer from there.

jim

try going to the products website, and downloading a driver or installer from there.

jim

Here is the link to the products website: http://www.st-lab.com/stlab_download.html

But unless I am going mad I cannot see anything that says PCMCIA RS232 Cardbus?? to install on windows XP.

http://list.driverguide.com/list/company2590/

It is usually on the cd from the manufacturer. This error usually happens when you try to install a PCMCIA card before you havce intalled the adaptor.

 

HTH

It is usually on the cd from the manufacturer. This error usually happens when you try to install a PCMCIA card before you havce intalled the adaptor.

 

HTH

The adaptor??

The PCMCIA adaptor in the laptop. Ther slot that the card fits into needs to be installed also, hence the INF file error...

 

You should have the software on the CD from the manuf...

I assume you have the latest service packs installed???

Uninstalled it all and started again from scratch started again with Installation file 0xserINF and it came up with "the device was installed correctly but could not be started [Error 0x0000045E]. As for updates they are all installed as far as I am aware.

Can you give some details? Laptop make and model, hardware make and model, drivers etc?

Toshiba Satelite Pro A10, ST LAB RS 232 Cardbus Adaptor PCMCIA RS232. As for information on Drivers I do'nt know?? I am running Windows XP.

Is there any entry in the system and application event logs???

Is there any entry in the system and application event logs???

Sorry mate but how do I find the application event logs, as this has never happened before I do'nt know how to find the relevant info. :o

start, run the type eventvwr. You should have 3 logs, system, application and security.

 

Go to system and start at the top and see if any are showing red. Copy the details here...do the same for app log...

To find teh event logs - Right click My Computer & left click manage.

 

Under that should be Event Viewer - open that and click on Application Logs.

 

Angus in probably right - if you've never used the PCMCIA cards before its probably a driver related issue.

 

j

cheek...of course I am right...lololol

lol sorry mate

 

J

type source category event

Error CFT NONE 1

Error CFT NONE 2

Error Cdrom NONE 7

 

I have loads of the above as well as some yellow warning symbols saying:

Warning plugplaymanager 256

And in app I am getting:

 

Error Application Hang 1001

warning usernv 1517 system

the results from the log should look like this....

This has come up in the bottom box cdrom Error:

0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b8 00 ..h...¸.

0008: 00 00 00 00 07 00 04 c0 .......À

0010: 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0020: 00 f8 6d 10 00 00 00 00 .øm.....

0028: a0 ae 05 00 00 00 00 00 *®......

0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....

0038: 40 00 00 c4 02 00 00 00 @..Ä....

0040: 00 20 0a 12 48 02 00 40 . ..H..@

0048: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........

0050: 00 00 00 00 a8 bf 19 81 ....¨¿.

0058: 00 00 00 00 70 0e b0 ff ....p.°ÿ

0060: 02 00 00 00 bf 0d 02 00 ....¿...

0068: 28 00 00 02 0d bf 00 00 (....¿..

0070: 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0078: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0a p.......

0080: 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 ........

0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

And this in the cft error:

0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 50 00 ......P.

0008: 00 00 00 00 01 00 07 21 .......!

0010: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

the real info is in the top box,,,under description....

And in app errors Application Hang:

0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket:

0008: 31 32 36 38 31 38 32 36 12681826

0010: 39 0d 0a 9..

 

And MsiInstaller :

0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket:

0008: 31 32 36 38 31 38 32 36 12681826

0010: 39 0d 0a 9..

I have loads of the above as well as some yellow warning symbols saying:

Warning plugplaymanager 256

 

Event Source: PlugPlayManager

Event ID: 256

Description: Timed out sending notification of device interface change to window of

 

This event ID is a warning message that you can safely ignore. The warning basically means that an application registered to receive Plug and Play (PnP) device interface notifications but didn't respond to a notification within 30 seconds.

the real info is in the top box,,,under description....

*****x, sorry :o

Here you go: fault bucket 126818269

and: The Device \Device/Cdrom0, has a bad block.

This is what the online help says:

 

 

Details

Product: Windows Operating System

Event ID: 7

Source: Cdrom

Version: 5.2

Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK

Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.

 

Explanation

The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read. The data might be missing or corrupted.

 

 

User Action

Do one or all of the following:

 

Retry the operation.

Clean the physical hard drive.

Use newer media.

 

 

 

Version: 5.0

Component: System Event Log

Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK

Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.

 

Explanation

The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows attempted to read. The data might be missing or corrupted.

 

 

User Action

Do one or all of the following:

 

Retry the operation.

Clean the physical hard drive.

Use newer media.

 

And this:

 

Details

Product: Windows Operating System

Event ID: 1001

Source: Application Hang

Version: 5.2

Symbolic Name: DW_BUCKET_LOG

Message: Fault bucket %1.

 

Explanation

The indicated program stopped responding. The message contains details on which program and module stopped responding. A matching event with Event ID 1001 might also appear in the event log. This matching event displays information about the specific error that occurred.

 

 

User Action

No user action is required.