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Chapter 3: Using your Notebook PC
3-5 Using the PC card
Your Notebook PC comes with a Type II PC card socket with 68 pins and is
85.6mmx54.0mm (about the size of a credit card). The PC card supports PCMCIA
2.1 specification and 32-byte CardBus. The PC card also supports the plug and
play functions of Windows and hot-plug, which allows you to insert and plug in
cards when power is on. Users can purchase all kinds of PC cards to expand their
Notebook PC functions, including memory cards, hard disk, modem, network card
or wireless network cards.
32-byte CardBus
A CardBus provides 32-byte BUS and its speed is as high as 33 MHz. Under
the burst mode, the data transmission speed reaches 132 Mb per second. However,
a 16-byte PC card transmits 20Mb per second only. The CardBus is compatible with
the 16-byte PC card.
PC card socket
Eject button
Our PC card socket supports the hot-plug function. However, we suggest that you
follow the instructions of the Windows operating system to “remove hardware safely”
before you remove the PC card. For the procedure of removing the PC card, please
refer to the next page.
Under standby mode, the PC card’s power supply will be turned off. Your Notebook
PC will not detect the PC card being plugged in. Also, the network connection will be
interrupted under standby mode. You should connect the ISP and log in to LAN
again.