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Inserting Multifunction PC Card May Hang Computer

Article ID: 163938

Article Last Modified on 9/22/2005


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SYMPTOMS

When you insert certain multifunction PC Cards in a PC Card slot in some computers, the computer may stop responding (hang). When this occurs, you do not hear an audible insertion tone.

This behavior has been observed when a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet+Modem (CEM28) PC Card is inserted in one of the following computers:
  • Hewlett-Packard Omnibook 4000CT
  • Hewlett-Packard Omnibook 5500CT
  • Texas Instruments Extensia 570CDT

RESOLUTION

STATUS

This problem no longer occurs in Windows 98. To resolve this problem, install the current version of Windows. For information about the current version of Windows, visit
http://www.microsoft.com/windows.

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