ID: PC030801A
Creating multiple hardware profiles in Windows operating systems
This document cover the following products:
AirCard series of PC card products
Symptoms:
Some hardware devices may conflict with the operation of the AirCard. These devices include LAN and modem adapters that take up hardware resources such as communications port, IRQ and I/O memory address.
It may be necessary to disable these devices for the correct operation of the AirCard.
Creating hardware profiles allows you to enable and disable different devices depending on the profile you boot up the computer in.
Resolution:
- Go into Control Panel > System Click on the Hardware Profiles Tab
- Look in the Available hardware profiles
- Select an existing hardware profile and click Copy ...
- Rename this new hardware profile to a new name (e.g. Wireless) 5) Now you have more than one hardware profile to boot up in.
- Reboot your PC and select this new hardware profile.
- In this new hardware profile, go to Control Panel>System and click on Device Manager. (For Windows 2000 go to Control Panel>System>Hardware and click on Device Manager.)
- Select hardware devices that you wish to disable, such as onboard modem, LAN adapters, Infrared port, by going into Properties and selecting Disable in this Hardware Profile only. Doing this will only affect the selected hardware device in this particular profile that this PC has booted up in.
Last update: March 5, 2001 - PMC
Reviewed: August 1, 2001 - KC