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My card slot is destroying my laptop
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Normally, my laptop gives several identical errors about PCI resource conflicts during boot and then locks up indefinitely at the XP loading screen. I figured out a way around this, which may get me yelled at, which is to literally separate the two halves of my laptop (the case is not screwed together) at the corner the card slot is. Like, literally hold them apart from each other. If held apart: I get no errors at boot, it doesn't freeze while loading XP, and I can then let go of them and resume normal function once it's done loading.
If I let them touch too soon, then I get "new hardware found" messages once XP has loaded and this causes a hard freeze.
I investigated the 'resource conflict' angle as best I could. There are three devices in my Device Manager which occupy the same slot. They are all different card slots. I tried uninstalling them, disabling them, whatever ... but inevitably the computer simply detects the slot again, and automatically installs it as three separate slots which causes the resource conflict and destroys my computer.
Unless I pry it apart at the corner. Which is a hell of a solution.
Is there some way to disable the automatic scan for new hardware? Has anyone heard of a problem like this occuring before and know a more tailored solution? The laptop is an Acer Aspire 5100, no hardware changes. This was a Vista laptop when I bought it, but I installed OEM XP instead. I didn't start experiencing this problem until recently, though, and the OS change was over 3 years ago. I have never once put any kind of card in the slot.
EDIT: Oh, and this has persisted through a format/reinstall of XP. It is what prompted me to format/reinstall XP, in fact. The problem persisted, however.
If I let them touch too soon, then I get "new hardware found" messages once XP has loaded and this causes a hard freeze.
I investigated the 'resource conflict' angle as best I could. There are three devices in my Device Manager which occupy the same slot. They are all different card slots. I tried uninstalling them, disabling them, whatever ... but inevitably the computer simply detects the slot again, and automatically installs it as three separate slots which causes the resource conflict and destroys my computer.
Unless I pry it apart at the corner. Which is a hell of a solution.
Is there some way to disable the automatic scan for new hardware? Has anyone heard of a problem like this occuring before and know a more tailored solution? The laptop is an Acer Aspire 5100, no hardware changes. This was a Vista laptop when I bought it, but I installed OEM XP instead. I didn't start experiencing this problem until recently, though, and the OS change was over 3 years ago. I have never once put any kind of card in the slot.
For the record, I don't even know what kind of 'card slot' this is. That's why I just keep calling it a 'card slot.' I'm going to assume it's an SD card slot, but I'm too terrified of crashing my computer to go back into Device Manager. Simply doing as much as right-clicking on one of the suspicious 'devices' can cause the hard freeze, and then it can take hours of finagling attempts to get it to successfully boot again.
EDIT: Oh, and this has persisted through a format/reinstall of XP. It is what prompted me to format/reinstall XP, in fact. The problem persisted, however.
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When you pry apart the case (not sure whether to be appalled or amazed by that solution) can you tell how the card reader is connected to the motherboard?
Maybe with wires?
Wires that can be cut?
With a wire cutter?
Unfortunately, the card reader is beneath one of the pieces of plastic that comprise the ... "base" of the case, I guess, for lack of a better term. Even when I take off everything I can take off, the card reader is still obscured. If I tried to approach by removing the top of the case (a tricky business), it would still be obscured due to being on the opposite side of the motherboard.
If you're not using this as a main computer - and you shouldn't, really - consider attempting Vista instead. Or 7. Pop the 7 RC in just to see if it works. You don't even have to wipe the disc, just dual-boot.
I'd bet you have bad drivers that XP is attempting to install automatically. Is the OEM XP disc you're using meant for this model? :P
This does appear to be a moment where conventional tech support fails, though, so installing the correct OS is going to be the plan of action if I don't see myself getting a new laptop entirely soon. There were issues downgrading the Vista install to XP, and some of the hardware did not have XP drivers available (which led to them just becoming functionless, like the built-in webcam). Thanks for the insight!
Disable your Plug and Play, and have it set up that you have to automatically search for anything new.
I realized after that I phrased it wrong, but I'm glad you found it. Plug and Play is a double edged sword, when you don't want it to find certain things.