 Re: Short-lived ALi PCMCIA Combo Card
Thanks. As luck would have it, I have a second bootable partition (both
Windows 98SE) and the card stopped working on both of them - it locks up the
laptop, which frees as soon as it's removed. The pcmcia slots are ok: I
use the slots for the modem.
I got the card to help connect a dvd burner so I could backup data; the
burner does work in the laptop's USB 1.1 slot albeit much slower, so I'm
going to live without a combo card. Once bitten twice shy.
I appreciate the feedback from both posts.
"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:02:17 +0100, "Martin"
> <vdp3r@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I got a PCMCIA combo card (USB2 + Firewire) from JETechWorld on ebay;
it's
> >based on an ALi chip and lasted just 3 months before becoming useless.
> >
> >Was this just bad luck or is ALi stuff low quality?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
>
> ALI's technology isn't great (little slower IIRC), but if it
> stopped working it'd be due to the card design and/or
> manufacturer- having absolutely nothing to do with it having
> an ALI chip on it... ALI wouldn't be to blame. Either that
> or windows just crapped itself as it sometimes does. For
> that matter it could even be the PCMCIA/board, have you
> successfully used any other PCMCIA cards in that slot?
>
> Try cleaing the contacts (insert/remove it several times if
> nothing else), uninstalling/reinstalling the driver, and if
> all else fails and you're really desperate to reuse it then
> try making a temporary/new WIndows(?) installation to see if
> it works with a clean OS.
>
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