ThinkPad 390E Online User's Guide

Using a PC Card in Windows NT (with CardWizard)

You can make your PC Card easy to use with the PC Card support software called CardWizard.

CardWizard minimizes user intervention in configuring many PC Cards. CardWizard provides the following:

• Capability to check Self-Check

  If you have a problem, refer to this section.

• PC Card information PC Card Information

  CardWizard provides various information about your PC Card.

• Capability to stop Stopping the PC Card

  If you remove the PC Card from your computer, sometimes you need to stop the PC Card.

• Help Help

  You can get help for most of the windows.

To start the CardWizard for Windows NT, do as follows:

1. Start Windows NT 4.0.

2. Click on Start.

3. Select Programs.

4. Click on CardWizard for Windows NT.

The menu bar for the CardWizard window includes File, View, Actions, Options, and Help options. Each option provides CardWizard functions to perform actions with cards, modify user-selected options, and obtain help.

Quick Launch
Once you have installed CardWizard for Windows NT, you can start it by clicking on the CardWizard icon. The CardWizard menu appears on the taskbar, left of the CardWizard icon. Click on the menu once with the left mouse button to start the Wizard application. Another way to start CardWizard for Windows NT is to double-click on the system tray icon with the left mouse button.

Note:

CardWizard for Windows NT 4.0 does not support power management. Please do not enter suspend/hibernation mode when you are using a PC Card. If you experience a problem with power management, it is recommended that you reboot your computer.

Self-Check

If you have a problem configuring your PC Card, select the Wizard button in the "CardWizard for Windows NT" window.

Each time you click on the Wizard button, a series of self-checks is run to assure that all necessary components are installed and working properly. CardWizard then analyzes the computer to verify that there are resources available for PC Card configuration.

Click on this button to fix most PC Card problems. Even if CardWizard cannot automatically solve a problem, it can pinpoint the problem exactly so that you or a technical support engineer can fix the problem more easily.

PC Card Information

You can see the attributes, resources, drivers, and memory card utilities that are loaded for PC Card support in the "PC Card Properties" window.

To open the "PC Card Properties" window, do the following:

1. Select Properties from the "Actions" menu.

2. From the "Card Information" panel:

   1. Press the right mouse button while the cursor is on an inserted card icon.

   2. Click on Properties.

   The "Properties" windows provide information about the attributes and drivers associated with the selected PC Card.

Attributes

Name

When you select device drivers, the following information is displayed:

Driver:	The full path to the driver for this PC Card.
Version:	The version for the current driver.

Stopping the PC Card

If you are removing a PC Card, you must first stop it. The system might freeze or data might be lost if a PC Card is removed before it is stopped.

Note:

You can stop only one card at a time. After invoking stop, you cannot stop another card until the first stop is either completed or fails.

To stop a card, click on the traffic light icon ( ) on the TaskBar, or select Stop from the "Actions" menu.

Power to the slot is turned off when a card is "stopped". You can then remove ATA cards. To prevent loss of data and other unpredictable machine behavior, make sure the stop operation is complete before you remove the cards.

Help

If you press F1 or select the Help button, you can get help for most of the windows. A glossary of terms and an index of Help items are also available.

Using ATA PC Cards

This section describes how to initialize and use removable storage cards, such as ATA hard disk and ATA Flash disk cards.

An ATA PC Card can be used like most storage devices. Your new ATA card needs to be formatted just as any hard disk does.

Format the ATA Card as follows:

1. Start Windows NT 4.0.

2. Click on Start.

3. Click on Programs.

4. Click on Administrator Tools (Common).

5. Click on Disk Administrator.

6. Select a drive that you want to format.

7. Click on Tool.

8. Click on Format.