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PC Card
O
PERATING
S
YSTEMS
W
INDOWS
95
The PC Card components are newer
than the drivers supplied by
Windows
95
, so before you can use this device,
you must make some changes (de-
scribed in the side-bar) to your sys-
tem. However after you activate them,
they are always hot.
The updated drivers are also PCMCIA
(rev. 2) , and CardBus compliant and they
recognize Plug n Play PC Cards. How-
ever some older, legacy, cards may re-
quire their own drivers. You can hot swap
any PC Card (refer to
Chapter 3: Modules
for a discussion on swapping). If you want
to use a ZV card, install the optional
SystemSoft CardWorks driver (see
Chapter 6: Enhancements
).
The optional SystemSoft drivers which
come with your computer take advan-
tage of technical improvements since
the release of
Windows 95
and sup-
port legacy and ZV cards.
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PC Card Setup for Windows 95
The PC Card components are newer than the
drivers supplied by
Windows 95
, so before you
can use this device, you must make some
changes to your system:
1. Open
Control Panel
>
System
>
Device
Manager
>
Other devices
. Remove the
PCI
CardBus Bridge
listings (there are 2).
2. Under
PCMCIA socket,
remove
PCIC or
Compatible PCMCIA controller
.
3. Download
TI-1250
driver from the Microsoft
web site or talk to your dealer. Copy the
files described in steps 4 & 5 to your system.
4. Copy
PCMCIA.INF
to Windows\Inf\ (re-
placing the existing file).
5. Copy
CBSS.VXD, PCCARD.VXD
and
PCI.VXD
to Windows\System\ (the last two
replace existing files).
6. Return to
Control Panel
>
System Properties
>
Device Manager
, and click on
Refresh.
When it asks about keeping an exiting file,
say
Yes
(4 requests)
7. When return to
Device Manager
panel, Choose
Texas Intrusments PCI-1250 CardBus Control-
ler (there are 2) under PCMCIA socket. Click
on
Properties
... and uncheck
Disable in this
hardware profile
. Follow the programs dialog
boxes to complete the settings.
After uncheck both controllers, reboot the sys-
tem. Till then the sockets will be ready for use.
