> How hot should a 56k 10/100 combo card get? I have a Xircom I picked up > cheap but it gets hot. I mean hot enough that I have to be carefull not > to burn myself when I remove it if my machine has been on for a while. I > also notice a significant hit in the battery life when the card is > inserted. Is this normal?
It is normal for the card to draw whatever power it needs from the laptop. It sounds like yours is a pretty hungry card. Some get hotter than others; whether your laptop has decent ventilation counts for a lot. > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > > frying 3Com NIC/Modem combos (PCMCIA) in my F270, because there's zero > > ventilation in the PC Card slots. A Linksys combo card works better, > > but it doesn't have a 10Base2 connector, so I ended up with two > > Ethernet cards... > > > > Chris I've seen Linksys cards with a big metal band near their pinside edge, which I assume is a pretty good heatsink. * Heather
