BATTERY
Try taking out battery and plug in power. If it works, battery is faulty. If not, Try taking out your hard disk plug in power, if it works, hard disk is faulty. If not, Try taking out memory card, if there's a sound, memory card faulty. If no sound, it's your motherboard that is causing the error.
Any device (card) that I try inserting into the pcmcia slot will freeze the Presario M2000 with XP....
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Any device (card) that I try inserting into the pcmcia slot will freeze the Presario M2000 with XP. It did work at one time. I do not know when or why it quit. 1. Inserting a card when the laptop is on will cause it to freeze. 2. Inserting the card before resarting the laptop will keep it from restarting. The fan comes on and the screen stays black. Remove the card in this state and it will the load. 3. If I disable the Generic CardBus controller for the pcmcia before inserting the card, insertng the card has no effect. If I then enable the Generic CardBus Controller, the laptop freezes. 4. I uninstalled the Generic CardBus Controller and let the laptop reinstall it automatically upon restart. The problem remains the same. I certainly appreciate any suggestions that you may have. Rick