Gateway Solo 5100 Maintaining & Troubleshooting page 58

58 Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Solo Notebook
Viewing system resources properties
If you install a PC Card and it does not work (freeing up
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
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. Y ou 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
resources)
. Click
Control Panel System
icon click
, Device Manager