AEN007 Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 11May2008Greetings.For various reasons I no longer usethe 802.11b miniPCI card installed in my T30.I instead use a 802.11b/g pcmcia card.How can I remove the miniPCI card from WinXP without removing the card from the T30? If I "uninstall" the card, WinXP "finds" & reinstalls the card every reboot. I should not disable the XP Plug & Play service. I do not want to always have the disabled miniPCI icon in my Network Connections window ... Disabling does not remove the iconfrom the NWC config in WinXP.I do not want the miniPCI icon in NWCanymore because I will not use it.This is one too many NWC iconsfor my AutoHotKey (AHK) scripts & other configuration settings.My scripts/configs handle betweenone and three NWC icons.I do not want to have to remove the card.Under WinME uninstalling somethingfrom a hardware profile/configremoves the item until the userreinstalls the item. WinME does nothave the Plug&Play service that XP does.WinME finds the uninstalled but notremoved item when Add Hardware is run;however, the user can tell WinMEto not reinstall the item. XP P&P finds &installs (even if disabled) the PCI card.For the time being I have modifiedmy AHK startup script to uninstallthe PCI card every reboot(when I choose run full startup script).Any insights appreciated.Thank you.Regards,AENÆ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordac85 Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Have you tried disabling the card in the BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AEN007 Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 14May2008Greetings.Thanks for the reply/suggestion.I thought for sure you had given methe/a solution; however, unbelievably,XP still finds & reinstalls the card -even when disabled in the BIOS.Disabling the card in the BIOS was trickybecause the BIOS lists 8 unlabeled IRQs;however, I indentified & disabledthe miniPCI/modem combo IRQ.Have you tried this?I'm still hoping to uncoverhow one could remove the cardfrom XP but not from the laptop.Any insights appreciated.Thank you.Regards,AENÆ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordac85 Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Disabling the IRQ's won't take it off the bus so XP finds it, but it prob has a bang next to it in Device Manager. I thought there might be an actual option to disable the card in the BIOS. What MFR/Model are we talking about anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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