When I try to connect my Dell X200 media base (doxking station) I get
message tha windows xp is looking for am epson dl-V100 device. What is
going on? And how do I stop it from doing this?

After digging through Dell's website the following answers (if you can
call them that) came up

for a quick fix , keep a CD in the optical drive 

Now the reason why (and I will quote a few messages I saw there)


(1)
When the Latitude X200 is docked with no devices in either the media
bay or floppy disk drive bay, the Epson DL-V100 IEEE 1394 controller
will have a yellow exclamation point in Device Manager.  This occurs
in both Windows XP and 2000
The Epson DL-V100 requires that a device be present to terminate the
1394 controller chain for it to load the drivers properly.  If there
are no devices present, the chain is not terminated and the driver
fails to load.
The system is working as designed. You will only see this issue if
they are docked and have removed the optical drive or floppy disk
drive. If you are concerned with the yellow exclamation point on this
device, re-insert the drives into the dock.
So, Dell is aware of this hardware faulty design problem, but they can
not correct this issue at this time.
User manual for the MediaBase nor Dell's web site does NOT have any
note or warning that the 1394 (4 pin) port on MediaBase is disabled or
fails to function unless an optical drive is placed in the MediaBase.
And MediaBase is being sold without optical drive on Dell's web site.


(2)
Just hooked mine up and got the same thing. Problem does seem to
disappear after disabling in device manager. However, I concur with an
earlier poster, we work hard to get our systems tweaked and running
without bugs and we have to
settle for a work around???... how hard is it for Dell to get us a
driver or a fix for this? What the heck is an Epson DL-V100 anyway? Is
this an Epson re-branded? Don't get me wrong, I love my X200 but come
on Dell !!


Hope this helps you out 

http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=latit_general&message.id=23437


**** just so you know I am not a Google Researcher********

corwin02:

wow, many thanks for the info.  I rambled around dell's website and
couldn'y get anything on search's for dl-v100 . . . . .

and the WORST is when I call Dell tech support, get the
"Bombay-Calcutta" connection, and get people who have NO KNOWLEDGE of
this media base driver message or even a CLUE what I'm talking about .
. . .