"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
news:gl5buc$8d7$1@news.motzarella.org...

> dqboy101 wrote:

>> On Jan 19, 10:07 am, smlunatick <yves...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> On Jan 19, 2:04 pm, "Lil' Dave" <spamyours...@virus.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "dqboy101" <tbl...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:722d928e-d370-41d0-ad01-e57a06b01f8d@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>>>>> I use a firewire card (PC card) on my laptop due to laptop has no
>>>>> installed factory firewire. Problem is when I put computer to sleep or
>>>>> close the lid of the laptop or boot or shut down windows the computer
>>>>> will freeze and force me to push off button and have to reboot why is
>>>>> that? The firewire is IEEE 1304.
>>>> PC cards can't physically attach to a laptop. The actual interface
>>>> type
>>>> (not IEEE 1394) with the laptop is the reason why all this is
>>>> occurring.
>>>> --
>>>> Dave
>>> PC card is the revised name of PCMCIA slot interface.

>>
>> I cant find article on the pcmagazine site.

>
> If you need articles on stuff, try Wikipedia.
> The home page on the site, features a search box,
> where you type in the thing you want to know about.
>

.... and some of the material presented there has been know to be right
occasionally. Wikipedia should never be regarded as an authority on
anything.