PCMCIA only working in 16 bit need 32

I have a Clevo 900k and installed XP home from an old OEM cd (02), sp1 and then sp2, from disks I downloaded a couple years ago then drivers and finally the driver for my ENE CB1410 cardbus adapter. Initially the PCMCIA adapter was listed in the device manager as a generic cardbus adapter but I used chipinfo to find out the actual make and downloaded the driver. When trying to put my 32 bit Sprint EVDO card (after installing drivers) in the slot I get the following message:

"The device ENE CB1410" has detected a card in it's slot, but the firmware on this system is not configured to allow the Cardbus Controller to run in Cardbus mode. The operating system will currently accept only 16-bit (R2) pc-ca


Any help? I have been trying to figure this out for four days nows and even did a reformat and reinstall of XP from scratch. I've reinstalled sp2, all drivers multiple times and looked in the BIOS several times for settings I may have missed but see none. I know the Clevo 900k supports 32bit cardbus and the current BIOS also does. There are several posts with similiar wording errors across the net per a google search but w/o a resolution. Is this possibly because I am using a very old XP build and updates aren't catching my problem?

A somewhat less specific post was placed in the software forum but I'm trying here w/ better info.