SystemSoft CardWizard Software for NT4
The P-Series drivers are designed to work with both the standard Windows NT support for PCMCIA cards and third party Card & Socket services utilities.

It must be noted that there are some limitations with the standard PCMCIA driver for Windows NT. The driver (pcmcia.sys) does not provide for dynamic resource allocation and "Hot Insertion" of PCMCIA cards. (Insertion while the PC is running.) For some applications such as Wireless LAN the card is inserted before boot anyway. However, if the card is removed at any time, this can lead to operating system crashes.

There are also other restrictions when using the standard drivers that can lead to an unusable system; for instance the PCMCIA ATA disk driver (atdisk.sys) requires exclusive use of IRQ9, but unfortunately on some motherboards IRQ9 is allocated to another device, and this can lead to the OS failing to boot when an ATA drive is inserted. Also the PCMCIA driver cannot always cope when the P-Series adapter is inserted in a motherboard slot that is behind a PCI to PCI bridge (not on PCI bus number 0).

Elan has tested SystemSoft CardWizard (a third party card and socket services package) and found that it resolves the above problems and limitations, and for this reason, Elan recommends that CardWizard is installed on systems running Windows NT4 (see http://www.systemsoft.com for more information and http://www.systemsoft.com/special/evaluation for an evaluation version.)
   
   

CardWizard Installation Notes for Elan Card Readers
  • Firstly, install and follow the standard installation instructions for the the PSeries driver.
  • Once the PSeries driver and hardware is installed, run the setup.exe program on the CardWizard distribution disk. When prompted for the platform type, choose "Desktop With ELAN Card Reader".

 
When the CardWizard installation is complete and the PC is re-booted, double click on the CardWizard icon on the Windows task bar and select "Options | Slot Management"

 

The PSeries driver supports PCMCIA cards that do not share IRQ's, so you may Select: "No IRQ Sharing". Alternatively, on systems with limited IRQ resources available (and if your PCMCIA card's drivers support IRQ sharing), you can select: "Share PCI IRQ". 

 

The hardware does not support the use of IRQ7 & IRQ15, so they cannot be used for PCMCIA cards, so make sure you deselect: IRQ7 & IRQ15 from the list of IRQ's that may be used.

  • Some PCMCIA card's drivers do not like to share IRQ's (all PCI devices may share IRQ's so their drivers must be written to cope with this) so select: "Exclude All PCI IRQs" (any IRQ's used by PCI devices will then be grey'ed out).
  • Once the above settings have been made, you should reboot your PC.

SystemSoft CardWizard Registry Utility
On some systems when using the P111/P222/P423/P424 adapter, PCMCIA cards may not be recognized by CardWizard with it's default settings. In this situation it may be necessary to change the CardWizard setup using a registry configuration utility from SystemSoft. This utility can be downloaded from the this web site, but it might not be the most current version (NOTE: File is named as cardwizardregistryutility.exx  after downloading it rename it to its .exe file type).  

Alternatively the most up to date version is available from http://www.systemsoft.com/l-2/l-3/support-cardwizard-utilities.htm

When you run this utility, you are presented with several options, follow the notes below to make CardWizard always use memory allocated through the PCI bus. After re-booting the PC, CardWizard should be able to recognize PCMCIA cards correctly.

Run the RegUpdt.exe program and select: "Registry Customizations..."

 

Select: "PC Card Configuration..."

 

Select: "Always use PCI address space" :

Once the above settings have been made, you should reboot your PC.

 

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