CardWizard(TM) for Windows(r) NT 4.0 
Release 5.00.10
March 11, 1999

(c) 1996-1999 SystemSoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved
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Section Contents:
1.   General Description and Installation
2.   Enhancements and New Functionality
3.   Things to Know
4.   Reference Material

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1.  General Description and Installation

CardWizard for Windows NT provides a complete PC Card solution for
systems running Microsoft's WIndows NT 4.0. It provides for Plug
and Play of PC Cards enabling users to hot insert and remove PC
Cards.  Card types supported include ATA, Modem, Serial, Network,
Combo, Multifunction, Specialty, Flash, SRAM, and Fortezza cards.

For a complete list of certified cards, check the SystemSoft 
Web site at: www.systemsoft.com.

To install CardWizard:
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  This release of CardWizard for Windows NT requires Windows NT 4.0
  Build 1381 or a later release of Windows NT 4.0.

  A user must have administrator privileges in order to install
  CardWizard for Windows NT.

  If the machine already has a copy of CardWizard for Windows NT
  installed, see the section "TO UPGRADE CARDWIZARD FOR WINDOWS NT"
  before proceeding.

  From the Start Menu, the Explorer, or from a command prompt, run 
  Setup.exe.

  Note: The contents of the installation diskette can be copied to
  a directory on the hard disk and setup can be run from this 
  directory. To do this, create a new (empty) directory for 
  this purpose.

  For example:

                mkdir \WizInstall
                cd \WizInstall
                copy a:*.*
                setup          [optional step]

  Setup can also be run from a network drive.  

To Upgrade:
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  You have to remove the previous version of CardWizard before you 
  install this release of CardWizard.  You can remove CardWizard, by 
  using the Control Panel Add/Remove Programs applet (for version 
  3.00.03 or later).

  After the previous version has been removed, the machine must be 
  rebooted. After rebooting, Setup can be run to install the new 
  version.

  Note: To determine the version of CardWizard which is currently
  on the system, run the CardWizard application, then pull down 
  the Help/About CardWizard menu.

To Uninstall CardWizard:
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  For version 3.00.03 or later, run the CardWizard un-installation
  program from the Start Menu or from the Control Panel Add/Remove
  Programs applet.

  For versions earlier than 3.00.03, run Setup.exe on the 
  installation diskett (as descirbed above).  The setup procedure 
  will detect the existing installation and will remove it.

  Note: The uninstall process may fail to completely uninstall the 
  CardWizard product for several reasons.  If, despite doing the above 
  uninstall actions, the CardWizard installation program detects 
  previous versions of CardWizard, you have to delete the following 
  registry keys and reboot the machine to be able to install CardWizard.
    - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
           SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\CardView
    - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DrvMgr
    - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PCCard
    - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\resman
  Before you do the way, you should try normal un-installation.

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2. Enhancements and New Functionality

The following features were added to this product:

  - Multifunction card support

  - PCI IRQ sharing for Modem and ATA cards

  - Enhanced network card problem resolution

  - If the CardWizard application was not previously launched, it no
  longer appears in the task bar on card insertion and notification 
  events.

  - The CardWizard properties dialog boxes now indicate if the PC 
  Card is Hot-Swappable.

  - User settings such as notification handling are now preserved 
  after installation.

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3.  Things to Know:

General:
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- Hot-Swapping for modem and ATA cards as well as Hot-Swapping of a 
  limited number of network cards is supported.  SCSI cards are 
  supported as boot time devices.  If you remove a non Hot-Swappable
  network card or a SCSI card without first shutting down the 
  system, it is possible for the system to freeze since the driver 
  may not be written to handle PC Card removals.

- When upgrading to Windows NT 5.0, you must first uninstall 
  CardWizard.  If you do not uninstall CardWizard, then the system
  may hang on reboot.

- PC Cards should not be removed or re-inserted before all beeps 
  and notifications are completed. Failure to wait for completion 
  may cause unexpected results.

- PC Card support (from both SystemSoft and Microsoft) may not work
  on some platforms which have a Plug and Play (PnP) BIOS because
  the BIOS assumes that the operating system will handle setup
  issues which are not handled by Windows NT.  If PC Card support
  does not work on your platform, you might be able to instruct
  the BIOS to disable PnP features; the details of how this is
  done vary from one platform to the next.  Typically this can be
  done in the BIOS setup.  For example, some setups have a setting
  similar to:

    Plug & Play O/S:  [Yes]

  Set this to [No] to disable PnP BIOS features.

Modem:
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- In some situations, the Modem applet (in the Control Panel) will 
  not be able to auto-detect the modem inserted in a slot.  In this 
  case, you should choose the appropriate modem from the list.

- In some configurations, you may need to change the IRQ or Com port
  used for a modem. In order to use a new configuration for the 
  modem, go to the Card Management / Modem dialog box and de-select 
  AutoConfigure.  This will let you use a new configuration instead
  of the last known good configuration.

Network:
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- Some of the drivers which ship with Windows NT may not 
  work with CardWizard and will need to be updated.

- If a PC Card network adapter is installed, and the machine is 
  rebooted with the card removed from the system or disconnected 
  from the network, the Service Control Manager may display the 
  following error message, "At least one service or driver failed 
  during system startup...".  This is caused by limitations in the 
  Windows NT operating system.

  It is safe to ignore this message.

- This version of CardWizard contains support for Hot-Swapping 
  network cards. The Hot-Swap support requires certain 
  functionality to be implemented in the network drivers. 
  Hot-Swappable drivers are available from most card vendors.  For 
  more information on driver availability, see the SystemSoft Web 
  Site (www.systemsoft.com).

- Megahertz software beeps when their cards are successfully 
  inserted. When running CardWizard with beeps on, the insertion 
  of a Megahertz card will result in additional beeps.

- If using the Netware client and the Ositech Jack of Diamonds 
  combo card, there may be times when you can access the network 
  but cannot browse it.  This is because of the frame type.  The 
  frame type should be set to 802.2 to avoid this situation.

SCSI:
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- If you install a SCSI card, then later remove it, you may 
  receive a Service Control Manager error message that "At least 
  one service or driver failed during system startup..."  or "Not 
  enough server storage to process this card..."  This is caused 
  by limitations in the Windows NT operating system.

  It is safe to ignore this message.  To keep this message from 
  recurring, you must disable the driver for the SCSI card, or you 
  must make sure the SCSI card is plugged in when you boot your 
  system.

- Some combinations of SCSI controllers and SCSI devices do not 
  work together.  The reason is that the SCSI specification does 
  not specify which device, the SCSI controller or the SCSI device, 
  is required to supply termination power.  If neither device 
  supplies the power, unusual behavior will result. For example, a 
  CD ROM drive may have too many or no drives mapped to it.  This 
  problem can be fixed with an Active Termination Device which can 
  be obtained from several manufacturers. 

- For the New Media Bus Toaster SCSI card, it must be used with 
  SCSI devices that provide termination power or with an Active 
  Termination Device.  If the device is not attached or powered on 
  when the Bus Toaster is inserted, then the system will hang at 
  the system startup screen until the device is activated. 

Mass Storage Device (ATA, Flash, SRAM):
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- The FUJIX ATA card is now supported, however, Cardwizard does not
  recognized this card if it is write protected.

- It is recommended that you stop Mass Storage Device cards using 
  the Stop Card feature, prior to removing them from the system. 
  Failure to do so can result in loss of data.

- This version of CardWizard supports the following flash memory 
  cards:

     Intel Series 2
     Intel Series 2+
     Intel Series 100
     Intel Mini-Cards
     AMD   Series C
     AMD   Series D
     AMD   Mini-Cards

  Intel Series 1 Flash cards are not supported.

- Several of the early Calluna ATA cards may have timing issues 
  with CardWizard and fail to configure.  For resolution of this 
  problem, you should contact Calluna.

- If the drive letter for a Mass Storage card is changed in the Disk 
  Administrator, it will not be reflected in the CardWizard 
  Properties. This is a limitation of Windows NT. To set new drive 
  letters for your card, use CardWizard (Card Management / Mass 
  Storage).

- Due to a timing issue with the Windows NT file system, sometimes 
  the volume and file system format may not appear in the Mass 
  Storage Properties menu. If you close the dialog box and reopen 
  it, the information will be available for a previously formatted 
  card.

- Memory cards (Flash and SRAM) are implemented as removable media 
  by CardWizard. If you try to copy a file which is larger than the 
  memory cards capacity, Windows NT will prompt you for
  another "disk".  However, removing the memory card and 
  reinserting another card is not handled correctly by the copy 
  command.

- For Flash cards, when a flash card reaches capacity, performance 
  degradation for reads and writes will occur.  Reformatting the 
  disk will help improve performance.

PC CARD ACTIVATOR:
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1) What is PC Card Activator?
  CardBus card is not supported on Windows NT 4.0.  Therefore, a Card
  Vendor which has Enabler type of driver exists in order to run a 
  CardBus card on the native Windows NT.  As this Enabler type of 
  driver is not recommended on PCMCIA standard, problems occur if it
  has run on CardWizard for Windows NT.
  Moreover, "Plug And Play" is not supported on Windows NT; so, some
  drivers ignore applied resources (Memory, I/O) by CardWizard when 
  the drivers run.
  In this case, problems also occur on CardWizard.  These are PC Card
  driver problems.  Please get the latest driver from Card Vendor.
  If the latest driver has such problems, their problems can be fixed
  by uninstalling CardWizard.
  PC CardActivator is a useful function because Windows NT can be 
  switched to original status without uninstalling CardWizard.
  Please try to inactivate CardWizard by PC CardActivator if some 
  CardBus or 16bit cards don't work with CardWizard.

2) How can you know the status of CardWizard?
  It is very easy to know whether CardWizard is Active or not.  
  When an Icon is displayed at System tray on screen, CardWizard for 
  Windows NT is active, and PC card runs under CardWizard control. 
  In case that the Icon is not displayed, the PC card runs by Native
  Driver of Windows NT.

3) How to choose Activate/Deactivate for CardWizard.
  You can use following steps to change whether the CardWizard is 
  activated or deactivated when Windows NT boots.

  STEP 1)
  Check that CardWizard Icon is displayed at System tray.  And, check
  the status (Activate or Deactivate) of CardWizard.

  STEP 2)
  Click "Start Menu", and Select "Programs"-"CardWizard for Windows NT"
  -"PC Card Activator".

  STEP 3)
  "PC Card Activator" dialog window is displayed, the message says the
  status of CardWizard NT for next boot (Typically, the status is same
  as current one.). 
  Click "Deactivate CardWizard" button if you want to deactivate 
  CardWizard.  And, if you want to activate CardWizard, click 
  "Activate CardWizard" button. 
  Note) You can see only one button when it is functionally.
  If you do not want to change any setting for CardWizard, click the
  "Cancel" button.

  STEP 4)
  Your system has to reboot once for applying what you changed.  When
  the dialog displays to ask you to reboot your system, click "YES" if
  you accept.  If you click "NO", the status (Activate or Deactivate)
  of CardWizard has not changed until your system is reboot.
  Note) If you choose that CardWizard is deactivated, you have to 
  insert PC card before booting your system because Hot Insertion is
  not supported on Windows NT.

System Specific:
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- For TOSHIBA NotePC which has "Auto-selected"mode at BIOS setup "PCIC
  contoller mode":
1) "PC Card Activator" function is supported.
   If the card cannot be configured at CardWizard enabled situation, 
   please use "PC Card Activator" and disable CardWizard, then 
   reboot the PC. 
   For instance, by Using CardBus, the Enabler type of driver is not
   recommended on PCMCIA standard, problems occur if it has run on 
   CardWizard for Windows NT.
   Also, this function is effective in addition to CardBus, all type
   of cards.

2) Always Default setting is available at BIOS Setting.
   In CardWizard enabled situation, you will use CardBus card without
   setting "PC Card Controller = CardBus/16bit" at BIOS Setting. 
   Please use default "Auto-selected "mode at BIOS setting.
   (It may need to change setting on CardWizard disabled situation 
   using "PC Card Activator".)

3) Using other setting on CardWizard enabled situation, it may cause 
   problems of the indication of PCMCIA slot after Hot Docking.

- This release supports the following machines:
    Toshiba Tecra         780
    Toshiba Satellite Pro 490
    Toshiba Tecra         8000
    Toshiba Portege       7000/7010/7020
    Toshiba Satellite     4000/4010/4020/4030/4050/4060/4070/4080
    Toshiba Portege       3010/3300
    Toshiba Satellite     2060/2510/2520/2540/2550


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4.  Reference Material

Look in the following areas for additional information on the 
product and its features.

  - User's Guide
  - SystemSoft Web site - www.systemsoft.com
  - Help system





