On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:02:17 +0100 As Andoids Dreamed Of Electric
Sheep and then "Martin" <vdp3r@hotmail.com> wrote :




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I got a PCMCIA combo card (USB2 + Firewire) from JETechWorld on ebay; it's
based on an ALi chip and lasted just 3 months before becoming useless.

Was this just bad luck or is ALi stuff low quality?

Thanks.

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:02:17 +0100, "Martin"
<vdp3r@hotmail.com> wrote:

ALI's technology isn't great (little slower IIRC), but if it
stopped working it'd be due to the card design and/or
manufacturer- having absolutely nothing to do with it having
an ALI chip on it... ALI wouldn't be to blame. Either that
or windows just crapped itself as it sometimes does. For
that matter it could even be the PCMCIA/board, have you
successfully used any other PCMCIA cards in that slot?

Try cleaing the contacts (insert/remove it several times if
nothing else), uninstalling/reinstalling the driver, and if
all else fails and you're really desperate to reuse it then
try making a temporary/new WIndows(?) installation to see if
it works with a clean OS.

Thanks. As luck would have it, I have a second bootable partition (both
Windows 98SE) and the card stopped working on both of them - it locks up the
laptop, which frees as soon as it's removed. The pcmcia slots are ok: I
use the slots for the modem.

I got the card to help connect a dvd burner so I could backup data; the
burner does work in the laptop's USB 1.1 slot albeit much slower, so I'm
going to live without a combo card. Once bitten twice shy.

I appreciate the feedback from both posts.


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