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Smartcard reader startup question
Name: Alex2002 Date: June 9, 2003 at 06:09:12 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: 1600XP
Comment:
The system I am on has a USB smart media card reader with 2 slots - these are like drives to Windows. In Win98 which is also on the machine. when there are no cards in them, it doesn't make any difference, but on XP, at the Welcome screen, I get 2 error messages saying that there is no disk in drives H and G (the smart card 'drives') I then have to click cancel (theres also a retry button) to move on. Any way I can stop this happening?
Name: JohnO Date: June 9, 2003 at 08:09:43 Pacific
Reply:
Is your card reader compatable with XP? Do you have the correct drivers? I have a diff type reader, but had probs until I finally found the XP drivers for it.
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