post #1 of 1 Thread Starter  Perhaps this will be helpful to
other owners of Acer laptops with builtin SmartCard reader.  I
recently decided to look at my Event Log in Windows XP and
noticed that System log contains several error messages like
this:  The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( O2SCBUS )
cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary
registry information or message DLL files to display messages
from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE=
flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for
details. The following information is part of the event: , IOCTL
POWER failed with status 0xc0000014.  As you can see it fails to
respond to power control commands. This might be the cause of
other problems you might have: failure to go into standby mode,
slower startup/shutdown, etc.  I almost thought that it could be
hardware failure.  Then I decided to plug in SmartCard. It went
all the through without any resistance or click as it should be
when it settles in.