58 Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Solo Notebook
Viewing system resources properties
1.
Make sure the card was installed properly. Check the PC Card's
documentation if you have any installation questions.
2.
Plug in a second PC Card. If it does not work there may be a resource
problem (unavailable IRQ).
3.
Click
Start
,
Settings
,
Control Panel
. Click
System
icon
,
click
Device Manager
tab.
4.
Check the properties for the PC Card you installed. A PC Card with a
resource conflict “appears” as an exclamation point in a yellow circle. A PC
Card that is disabled “appears” with an X through the icon.
5.
If there is a resource conflict, remove the second PC Card you are trying to
install.
6.
Determine which one of your ports that you do not need to use for the time
being, possibly the IR port, serial port, or parallel port. You also can disable
the sound chip if you prefer.
To disable a device, select the port you want to disable (for example, COM1)
and click
Properties
.
If you install a PC Card and it does not work (freeing up
resources)
