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    Help With Pcmcia Cards On My Asus

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by badmanelias, Oct 27, 2006.

  1. badmanelias

    badmanelias Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I own two pcmcia cards, both used only three times literally. One is a SATA card and the other is a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs. I used these on borrowed laptops in the anticipation for when I got mine. However, I bought the ASUS S96J which does not have a pcmcia slot. I knew it didnt but I thought that expresscard was backward compatible. So it has a expresscard slot, what can I do to get my PCMCIA cards back in use? There is no adaptor or anything of the sort... if so, can someone send me a link for it?
    I also looked at usb pcmcia card readers and all I have found is an old Lexar from digital cams back in the day. It is usb 1.1 though which makes the sata card redundant and I assume it will most likely be too slow to run the sound card correctly. Please, any help on this will be greatly apreciated.
    Thanks
    Nico
     
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  2. Jumper

    Jumper Notebook Deity

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    The Notebook manufacturers in general have really dropped the ball on the ExpressCard switch.

    You can get ExpressCard SATA cards, maybe sell the PCMCIA one on eBay or something.

    As for the sound card, I don't know of any adapter to make it work. Sorry...
     
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    There are no adapters. You are out of luck. Sorry. :(
     
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    badmanelias Notebook Enthusiast

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    I figured there was no possibe adaptor. I think acer has a good thing going where the two slots are integrated into one, ie. not seperate and space consuming like on HP's. I know that exresscard is significantly better, but whats the use if it doesnt have the hardware available for it.
    How do you think a sound card will function on a usb 1.1 pcmcia reader

    Thanks
     
    badmanelias, Oct 27, 2006
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