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CardBus Card in Docking Station May Not Be Configured

Article ID: 164222

Article Last Modified on 10/13/2003


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SYMPTOMS

On certain laptop computers running Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2), when a CardBus card is inserted into a CardBus slot in the docking station the CardBus card may not be recognized or configured or may not function.

CAUSE

There is a hardware problem with some docking stations that prevents IRQs available to the PCI bus from being assigned to CardBus devices in the docking station.

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.

MORE INFORMATION

Computers known to exhibit this symptom include: If you own one of the computers listed above, contact your computer manufacturer for a remedy.

Additional query words: 95 Texas Instruments TI1130

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