ExpressCard/34

What is an ExpressCard/34 slot for?

General-purpose extension. Card readers, FireWire 800, eSATA, cellular data interfaces, etc.
It's a fairly new standard, and devices are just beginning to appear. If you find one you need, be sure it's an ExpressCard/34. The ExpressCard/54 devices will not work (they're not mechanically compatible—they won't fit in the slot).
Randall Schulz

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    Hi all,
    my system: Ideapad S9e, product number 4068-38G, Windows XP Home.
    I use an audio express card from RME (HDSPE Expresscard). When the card is inside the slot, the Ideapad S9e does not start up. The fan starts, stops, and the screen stays black.
    When I remove thee card, the boot process continues but a message comes up
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    And, then, everytime I start, the message comes, even if the card is not inserted.
    I updated the BIOS, it's version is from the 11/19/08
    I can not configure any interrupts in the BIOS. 
    When I hot-plug the card in Windows, that is, I start without the card and insert it afterwards, it works.
    Any idea what's wrong?
    Regards,
    Rainer

    Well this is dishearting as I just ordered this for the Express Card slot that I need to run Serial devices with.
    My question would be has anyone going into the BIOS and looked at what the system is asigning the Express Card slot as an IRQ ? I had some issues with an old Win2k system where trhe BIOS and the OS were fighing over IRQ's.
    If this is an issue then this will be returned as soon as I get it here.
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  • Using a expresscard FW800; G-Raid drive unmounts on it's own

    I'm using a NitroAV Fw800 dual expresscard to connect my 500gig G-Raid drive that i use for video editing. I have never had a problem with it using Tiger.
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    I mount the drive and all is well, (this is an example of the problem I'm having with it) I used the drive to provide 3.8 gigs of info to burn a disk recently. It burned fine and when it was done the drive just sat there, turned on, mounted for a few minutes and then it unmounts itself.
    When it's doing something it behaves fine, when I leave it alone for a bit it unmounts itself and I get the error saying that it has been removed without ejecting it first.
    If I connect it via the built in FW400 port, it stays connected and I have no issues. other drive I have are FW400 and they behave perfectly.
    I have never had this problem before. what could it be?

    I spoke with the company that manufactures the expresscard (NitroAV) again and they said it is a foul up associated with upgrading to Leopard and not installing fresh and reformatting the hard-drive.
    Has anyone else had this problem?
    Is there anyway to have Apple address this problem?
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  • System Lockup AFTER installing ExpressCard Update 1.0!!?

    hey there, before i installed the expresscard update 1.0, my mbp was running fine. just after that though i'll get random systemwide lockups.
    i've noticed this happens only when i'm loading a page from Safari.
    Only 3 applications are running. AdiumX, Safari and iTunes.
    When I get the "lockup", my cursor will turn into a Spinning Beachball, and i'm unable to access "Force Quit" menu, as well as click on anything else on the screen. music keeps on playing on iTunes though.
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    ===
    ** (process:312): CRITICAL **: msnobject_new_fromstring: assertion `!strncmp(str, "<msnobj ", 8)' failed
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    Mac OS X Version 10.4.7 (Build 8J2135)
    2006-08-12 13:33:58 +1000
    ===
    i know the parse error is the last thing that causes the lockup coz i get the "Mac OS X Version..." log entry whenever i boot up.
    So the 50million dollar question is: How can I rollback the **** expresscard update?
    does anyone have any similar problems?

    UPDATE:
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  • What Is, And Why do I need it: ExpressCard/34 Slot?

    In the very near future I will be obtaining a 17" MBP. That's just savvy, except for one minor detail. What is an ExpressCard/34 slot, why do I need one, why would it have been included in this particular size MBP and what can I shove in there?

    The expresscard slot is for expansion purposes. it allows a low cost esata connection to your macbook pro. you can plug an esata adapter in and then use one of many external esata enclosures. "apiotek ec-0003d" costs about 40 bucks and will let you add 2 non-bootable external esata enclosures then can run at 3Gbps. fw800 runs at 800Mbps..
    "OWC esatat sata expressCard/34Adapter" bootable 1 esata adapter is 19 bucks it will let you add 1 esata enclosure at speeds up to 3Gbps.
    so if you get the non bootable one you can add 2 enclosures like "sans digital towerStor Ts2ct". that would be up to 4Tb for each one total of 8tb far faster then fire wire. if you get the bootable 1 esata type you could add 1 external at 4tb. this lets you macbook pro boot from a 4tb external at internal speeds. kind of gives you the ability to make you laptop a real desk top when you want it to be that. Then back to a real lap top by unplugging it. Not trying to sell any of the above items I just happen to use them.
    This option was pulled from iMac's a real drag as iMacs could use more fast enclosures.

  • ExpressCard/34 not working in BootCamp Windows 7 64-bit. Apple's BIOS emulation does not give enough resources.

    MacBook Pro unibody, 15" 2009
    ExpressCard/34 (Card is by Transcend TS-RDF1, JMicron chip for SD card) is not working in BootCamp Windows 7 64-bit. Windows reports:
    "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)
    If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system."
    Other data points: Card works fine in Mac OSX, worked under Windows XP 32-bit (initially reported same problem, but works after reboot).
    Checking the forums there seems to be no actual device suggested to actually remove that would help the problem. And even if it was, the concept is ridiculous. What other device would you like to remove? Display adapter? Network adapter? No way. I use all available devices and don't want to compromise.
    It seems like BIOS emulation does not allocate enough resources to ExpressCard.
    Are others having the same problem?
    Does anyone have a fix for this?
    Is there anyone at Apple who cares to provide a solution?

    It is not a driver problem, but a problem in the BIOS emulated by bootcamp on some (not all) MBP models. So unless Apple fixes it in bootcamp, there is no real solution. And obviously, Apple doesn't care. They are dropping the Expresscard slot anyway.
    Unfortunately, this poster seems right: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=912259 :
    The 2008/2009 Macbook Pros don't allow to use the ExpressCard slot because of EFI/Bootcamp errors (Windows Vista/7 cannot allocate an IRQ to the slot). You don't need any drivers for using an ExpressCard slot on Windows, you only need the drivers for the corresponding card you are using.
    Bootcamped XP allowed to use the slot, but you could not use hot-plugging.
    And from the Sonnet site ( http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_sata_express34.html ) :
    Tempo SATA ExpressCard/34 not supported under Windows 7 or Windows Vista when running on unibody MacBook Pro computers. The problem is caused by the MacBook Pro's BIOS emulation, which doesn't allocate enough resources to support certain kinds of Expresscard/34 devices, such as a SATA controller, in these operating systems.
    (added link to Sonnet's explanation)

  • External drive connected to FW800 ExpressCard - bootable?

    I have a 2.0 GHz Core [1] Duo MacBook Pro with no built-in Firewire 800, and wish to use an external boot drive at faster-than-FW400 speeds. Trying eSATA seems to be an endless nightmare right now, but what about FW800? If I connected a FireWire 800 ExpressCard, could I connect my external boot drive to that?
    The card I was looking at is the Apiotek EC-0002B, but I have no problem using a different brand if that card is not bootable and another is. The drive enclosure would be one of the quad-format SATA boxes from OWC.

    Hmm. Well, Apiotek is an unreachable Taiwanese company, Apple seems to think that an ExpressCard that requires no drivers would be bootable, and OWC thinks no ExpressCard is bootable. And I don't really feel like dropping $70 shipped/taxed on an experiment.
    Is there anybody on this forum who's tried booting a MacBook Pro from a drive connected through some ExpressCard interface? There has to be someone. It seems like such a straightforward thing to try, but a forum search for "expresscard AND bootable" suggests otherwise. Odd.
    This makes me pine for my dear departed G4. If I wanted to add a new, fully functional interface, I slapped in a card. Ah, the days when expandable Macs didn't start at $2500.
    Sonnet sells a FW800 card that looks to be the same card with their branding on it. Maybe I'll call them on Monday.

  • Web Cam over ExpressCard USB 3.0 Hub

    Hello everyone,
    I'm doing a digital sculpture piece which involves a few webcams. I'm trying to connect three webcams (not using the internal webcam) on my macbook pro.
    I purchased a usb 3.0 card from SIIG so give me two more ports. At first, it didn't work at all, and I realized that iOS doesn't really like usb 3.0 but lacie wrote a driver for usb 3.0 for macs, so I installed that. I can now use the port with a usb flash stick.
    However, when I plug one of the webcams into the expresscard, not only does it not work, it disables any of the other webcams including the integrated one from working (they don't show up, in, for example, photobooth.)
    Has anyone here ever successfully run a webcam through an expresscard slot or used multiple webcams on one usb hub for the mac?
    Do you think it's because I purchased a usb 3.0 express card that I'm having this problem? Would a 2.0 expresscard work?
    Thank you very much guys!

    Welcome to Discussions, mgkaplan
    mgkaplan wrote:
    Hello everyone,
    I'm doing a digital sculpture piece which involves a few webcams. I'm trying to connect three webcams (not using the internal webcam) on my macbook pro.
    I purchased a usb 3.0 card from SIIG so give me two more ports. At first, it didn't work at all, and I realized that iOS doesn't really like usb 3.0 but lacie wrote a driver for usb 3.0 for macs, so I installed that. I can now use the port with a usb flash stick.
    However, when I plug one of the webcams into the expresscard, not only does it not work, it disables any of the other webcams including the integrated one from working (they don't show up, in, for example, photobooth.)
    Has anyone here ever successfully run a webcam through an expresscard slot ...
    No, but I have never tried webcam via my "expresscard slot."
    ... or used multiple webcams on one usb hub for the mac?
    Yes.
    The only drawback with this is data stream speed is shared among all connected devices, so, as more USB cams are connected:
     • (1) still image capture speed is slower and
     • (2) video pixelates badly.
    Do you think it's because I purchased a usb 3.0 express card that I'm having this problem?
    Yes
    Would a 2.0 expresscard work?
    Subject to the speed limitations I mentioned above, I think you stand a better chance with USB 2.0.
    Thank you very much guys!
    You're welcome.
    EZ Jim
    Mac Pro Quad Core (Early 2009) 2.93Ghz Mac OS X (10.6.7); MacBook Pro (13 inch, Mid 2009) 2.26GHz (10.6.7)
    LED Cinema Display; G4 PowerBook 1.67GHz (10.4.11); iBookSE 366MHz (10.3.9); External iSight; iPod4touch4.3.1

  • What is the best USB 3.0 Expresscard 34 card available for older MBPs?

    Title says it all. I'm looking to buy some new external hard drives, preferably ones with USB 3.0, but I'm going to need an Expresscard to plug into my MacBook Pro to fully utilize the new and improved speeds. I've seen a couple so far but they didn't seem to offer support for OS X, which as you can imagine, would be problematic. Has anyone had any experience with this and if so, is there a recommended card that I should look into? Much appreciated.

    If such a card were available and worth having on a Mac, I except that Other World Computing would stock it. I just looked at their Express34 offerings and they do not show any.
    The fastest current option is probably eSATA; several such cards are shown here:
    http://eshop.macsales.com/search/express34
    They support up to 3G/sec. I recently bought a Western Digital MyBook Mac Edition and it have USB 2.0, FireWire 800, and eSATA interfaces. That and an eSATA card would be about as fast as you can get today.
    A Wikipedia article on USB 3.0 says this:
    A new major feature is the "SuperSpeed" bus, which provides a fourth transfer mode at 5.0 Gbit/s. The raw throughput is 4 Gbit/s, and the specification considers it reasonable to achieve 3.2 Gbit/s (0.4 GByte/s or 400 MByte/s), or more, after protocol overhead.
    As the "reasonable" expectation is just over 3G/sec, eSATA could be pretty close and is something you can implement today.

  • ExpressCard SSD not detected by Windows 7

    I've got Windows 7 RC 64-bit installed on a 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro (dual boot using Boot Camp) with an ExpressCard slot. I also got a FileMate SolidGO 3FMS4D48M-WR 48GB ExpressCard SSD; the drive works beautifully under OS X, but is not recognized at all by Windows 7 when it's in the ExpressCard slot. In Device Manager, the yellow caution icon appears in front of the Standard ACHI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. The drive does not show under Disk drives or in Disk Manager. The corresponding Device Status message is: "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use (Code 12). If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system."
    The drive is recognized as SATA under Mac OS X and also works fine in Windows when plugged into a USB port instead of the ExpressCard slot (at which point it is not treated as SATA, but USB). I've tried the latest Boot Camp drivers, but that has no effect. Any suggestions?
    Edit/Delete Message

    Hi
    If the device is not visible in device manager, not even as an unknown device, then this means that the device does not exist or has not been detected by BIOS.
    Usually the infrared receiver should be visible in device manager under:
    Human interface devices - > SMSCIR infrared receiver
    In System devices you should see the Consumer IR Device.
    Be sure that you enabled the option sow hidden devices in device manager maybe then you could see this
    Please also check the BIOS
    Im not quite sure if the infrared device option would be listed in BIOS but you should check it

  • In need of a Laptop with ExpressCard Slot

    Hi,
    I was trying to use the search for finding a laptop with ExpressCard® Slot, but had no luck with that.
    If anyone can recommend me a couple of models that carry this port, I'll be grateful.
    Due to the hardware I need to use this is a must. No substitution yet for this port.
    Thanks in advanced for your input.
    Best regards.
    Ivan.

    There appear to be some Tecra and Portege models.
       http://us.toshiba.com/search/expresscard
    Best to call ToshibaDirect at 800-597-4512 and chat with them.
    -Jerry

  • Span to 2 monitors w/ExpressCard PCI-Express Video Card? Possible?Probable?

    Hey guys. I had screen-real-estate envy a few months ago and talked myself into thinking I could live without a laptop and just drag my new 20" iMac around once every week or two when I do Keynote Teaching. The sucker's 25lbs and has sharp edges and a lot of cables, it's a huge hassle to set up and haul around.. it's no laptotp replacement, although I do adore the screen. This has brought me to my current plan to sell the iMac eventually and buy a MBP, which I'll want to span to a bigger LCD. But my real dream of the last 10 or so years is to have 3 monitors going at the same time. When I saw that the ExpressCard slot can interface with both USB2.0 AND the PCI-Express bus I started using my imagination on how I could have 3 monitors going without having to spring for a PowerMac.
    So the question is, any discussion about an ExpressCard video card? Any in production? Anything theoretically wrong with this concept? Probability of it happening, time frame? Prognosticate away!

    Yo! Don't post the same question twice, OK?
    I posted a reply to the earlier occurrence of your
    post. Check it out.
    RRS
    Yeah sorry if it's at odds with your forum sensibilities, but I felt that this question fit well in both the Display AND the Expansion forums - and since neither has been able to give me an answer (although the alternative you suggested isn't wholly a bad option) as to whether or not this is or will be possible, I'll keep the question alive in 2 places until it gets sorted out. If this is against forum policy or something let me know, otherwise...

  • Recommended ExpressCards for new 17" MBP for video editing

    Ok, so after sitting on the fence for months I had to buy the new 17" MBP. I just couldn't wait any longer and my trusty PB G4 is getting slow.
    After reading the enormous amounts of posts I can see why people are so upset about losing the ExpressCard slot in the 15" models.
    But, for the 17" models does anyone have any good suggestions of Expresscards? And what is the optimum set-up I should go for?
    I am an Avid and Final Cut editor using a 4-pin Firewire Sony DVCAM deck and two Western Digital External Drives daisy-chained together.
    Would love some advice.
    thanks!

    The Sony DVCAM is FW400 (aka iLink, aka IEEE1394a), so a 4-pin-to-6-pin or -to-9-pin cable will do. I'd get the 4-pin-to-9-pin (FW800 is fully backward compatible with FW400) so you can connect directly to the MBP's FW800 port, if needed. You can just get a FW800 ExpressCard, since it's backward compatible.
    I'd recommend this one:
    http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fw800expresscard34.html

  • TV-tuner  ExpressCard 34

    Hello, I'm looking for a good TV tuner for my macbook pro. I would like to use the expresscard slot for this (very compact). I found one at Terratec, but the problem is they don't have a driver for OSX, they do have one for windows XP.
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    That's a good question. I know other ExpressCard devices (.i.e memory cards) have been made to work on a MBP running bootcamp/XP. Here's another example -
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  • SanDisk Extreme Pro ExpressCard wont install ... ?

    All,
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    Thanks to all of you who pinged me off-line about this.
    Apparently, the current version of BootCamp (3.1) does not have suitable Windows drivers for the ExpressCard hardware slot, makeing it uselss under Windows. Here is one such thread that discusses:
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/12518382?messageID=12518382
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