acer notebook and pc card

[Soundguy]

at work we have an acer notebook on vista.. has a pc card broadband modem ( sprint / qualcom pc500 ). every now and then you put the card in and windows fails to load the drivers... other times it works fine..

any ideas?

thanks

soundguy

 

[rmully]

Try putting the card in ...THEN start the laptop. If windows does not see the card it may not load the drivers at start up.

 

[Soundguy]

but those pc cards are suposed to be hot swapable.. and windows should dynamically load the drivers oncve it detects the new hardware.. same as with USB.

Like I said.. it is doing it most of the time.. just some of the time it doesn't.

soundguy

 

[hr3]

Vista is the problem.. my acer with vista act's the same way when I plug in my camera,, Sometimes it's fine but other times it won't comunicate.. arggg:confused2:

 

[RoyJackson]

arggg:confused2:

It's spelled "Arrrrrggggggh"! (Don't forget the "h").

You can thank Robert Newton for that, BTW...

 

[Bird]

at work we have an acer notebook on vista.. has a pc card broadband modem ( sprint / qualcom pc500 ). every now and then you put the card in and windows fails to load the drivers... other times it works fine..

any ideas?

thanks

soundguy

My HP desktop is running Vista and I've occasionally had a (somewhat similar problem?) when I plug in a flash drive. Although what mine has done (although seldom) is that my computer shuts down/restarts. My son-in-law says it's because of the sudden power surge.

 

[kf4uda]

Check and see if there is an updated driver available for your modem from Sprint or the manufacturer. If not you might try deleting and reinstalling the drivers.

 

[Soundguy]

sounds like a good idea on the drivers. next time i'm around the computer I'll click the driver tag and let it go look for new ones and see what it finds.

soudnguy

 

[MossRoad]

Is this a USB device or a card in the card slot?

If USB, try a different USB port.

If card, do you have two card slots and could you be getting it in the top or bottom slot from time to time?

Just asking.

 

[Soundguy]

As was said.. it's a pc card .. only 1 slot on this machine.

there is another.. but it's a half sized slot..

soundguy