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MAKING PC CARDS WORK
Since PC cards come in different types and brands, making every card work on
your computer may not that be easy. PC cards like network, SCSI or
multifunction cards (MFC) need additional driver installation and configuration
in making the card work. This additional driver may already be built-in under
Windows that Windows will try to detect and prompts you if you want to install
the driver. If the driver is not included under Windows, you will need to insert
the driver CD provided by the PC card manufacturer into the CD-ROM drive and
install to Windows system. You need to read the manual guide of the PC card on
how to configure and operate the card.
 Some PC cards require additional system resources. B efore inserting a
PC card you may have to disable either the USB port, or the 56K internal
modem. Check the Windows device manager to ensure that there are no
conflicts of resource amount those devices.
HOT SWAPPING PC CARDS
Just like floppy disk drive, your PCMCIA slots allow you to replace one PC card
with another even while your computer is on. However, you need to remember
the rule that if the PC card is in use, you must not remove it.