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Old 5th January 2011   #20
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Originally Posted by Alndln View Post
Your lucky. How old are these laptops? We went through 6 curent major brands with a SIIG TI based express card with no luck at all. They all had the dreaded jMicron media slot chipset that overided the TI card chipset. Unless you can point to a single current consumer PC laptop that does my research tell me they don't exist anymore onboard. In fact your lucky to find any PC consumer laptop that has FW at all, and if they do the only ones I could find sport a Ricoh FW chipset.
You say that you couldn't find an express card to work with the jMicron as it overrided the TI card chipset, but does the Ricoh have the same issue of overriding the TI card?

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