Installed and had working a Dratek wirelass lan card in vaio fx101 for around a year. laptop lost half it's memory, both memory slots in use, now, I've known 3 fx101's do this and it's been the second slot in each case that has poor soldering. After resoldering each pin including those not loose, and I can solder down to 0.5mm pitch tsop's by hand, the PCMCIA slots no longer see the wireless lan card, power LED not coming ON, card is OK in other laptop. Before I resort to stripping the 101 down, does anyone know if the PCMCIA slots are protected by surface mount fuses. Soldering iron was earthed and I used 3m scotch anti static kit. Have done full restore just in case od some strange lockout by OS, running win ME as supplied with fx101.
