Dear Dave, Ok, I tried switching slots; no dice. Card still roasts. I checked the= =20 cardctl status, and it's showing 5.0v. I didn't have the cdrom card in.= =20 I guess I could be a hardware heat thing...that side of the computer in = general gets pretty hot. BUT, would the APM stuff affect heat to other = parts, i.e., the motherboard, processor, etc.? The battery, HD, and ram= =20 are all on the other, cooler, side of the computer, as is the floppy. S= o=20 really, the processor I guess would be the only thing left. Which brings= =20 me to my next concern =96 if apm, or card services, or a combination of = both, is causing my mb/processor to get overly hot, then what sort of=20= damage am I liable to incur? Wonder if I'm going to have to revert to=20= (Heaven forbid!) Windows, just to protect the hardware? Thanks for the input, Dan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 8/28/00, 8:20:39 PM, David Hinds <dhinds@valinux.com> wrote regarding= =20 The "hot card" reports have not been sorted out: > > > > Any other ideas? > No, not without more testing. At least some of the reports of hot > cards seem to just be that other things in the systems are getting hot= > and transfering heat to the card(s). Windows may be doing a better > job of power management in general, so the fact that the card doesn't= > get hot in Windows doesn't necessarily mean that the PCMCIA drivers > are at fault. > The 'cardctl status' command will show what voltages are being > supplied to each socket. > -- Dave |
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