AirCard 595 Not Recognized on Reboot

PCG · EVDO Newbie Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 2

This is really an odd one. My AirCard 595 (VZW) had been working perfectly fine. When I was done with my laptop Saturday, I turned it off while leaving the card in the computer (Vista Ultimate). Normally I pull it out before powering off but for some reason this day I forgot.

When I went to use it again, the card was not recognized - no beeps, no nothing. In Windows event viewer it records:

Event ID 10. The PCMCIA controller encountered an error reading the device configuration data.

I removed and reinstalled the software - no go.

Now, I took the card, stuck it in my wife's laptop which has XP Professional and it works fine (although the lights don't come on).

Any ideas? Thanks!

Tony

Torrey · Site Admin Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 216 Location: USA

Did you try powering the card off/on in your wifes laptop?

PCG · EVDO Newbie Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 2

Thank you for the response! Powering it off and on... Do you mean the laptop while the card is still inserted? Or by device manager or something?

I did go to the local Verizon store today and swap the card out for a new one and I am having the same problem so it definitely isn't the card.

I would say something in Windows got out of whack except last night I even reformatted the laptop, did a fresh install of Vista and am still having the same problem.

This is absolutely baffling... Has me to the point where I think I might be better off with a USB device.