Mobilepro 770 freezes when turned on

While waiting for a new keyboard for my Jornada 720, I fired up my old 770 which I plan to give to my daughter to use. It has been hard reset, and the only things I installed were AIM, nPopUk, and the Agere driver for my wireless card. Only the Agere driver loads at boot. When this was my primary machine I used all these and more, and had no freezing problem. Now every time I turn it on, it freezes and I have to restart it. Then it's fine.

Any ideas? Thanks.

First, determine the problem for the freeze. Perform another hard reset and then check to make sure it isn't freezing. Then install the Agere driver by itself and see what happens. If freezing reoccurs, then find another (perhaps older or newer version) of the driver and try that one.

If the 770 doesn't freeze, then try installing each of the other programs one at a time until you can figure out what is going on.

Question: are you booting with the wifi card inserted? If so, then try it without the wifi card inserted and see what happens.

Thanks, Rich. I did another hard reset (no big deal when you running only 3 additional programs). The only thing I changed when installing was running AIM in main memory instead of the storage card. Everything seems fine now.

Another quick question: I don't remember if there is a way to disable the "Do you want to run this PC card from Battery" warning. Is there a utility? Thanks again.

It's most likely a registry setting, but there is at least SmallTweak that can disable that warning message.

I found SmallTweak, and the option to turn off the battery warning is greyed out. Maybe it doesn't work on MobilePro. I can live with it. Thanks.

Hmm, that's strange. Maybe cmonex knows the actual registry entry.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\PCMCIA]
"NoBatteryCheck"=dword:00000001

Excellent! Thank you!

That tidbit of information might be worthy of inclusion in a CESD somewhere, since googling for such does not reveal that registry location.