Windows 10: Why am I receiving Smart Card errors, but I don't have a smart card reader??

Hi. I've gone through a lot of the information in the community, but no one seems to have the same issue. I continually get Smart Card error messages - sometimes to the point where the event viewer is capturing errors for every second. And the sound it plays is driving me bonkers! Anyway, I don't have a smart card reader, I don't use a smart card reader, and never had a smart card reader, but for some reason Windows thinks I do. In order to stop the errors and sounds, I have to disable the Smart Card services. This doesn't make any sense to me because I don't have a smart card reader.

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Smart Card Reader / Gettign a Card

Hi,

Smart card reader can be used for identification, authentication, and data storage. We suggest contacting the device manufacturer for further assistance on how to use the smart card reader.

Let us know if you need anything else. We're here to help.

 

Office smart card reader not prompting for PIN

Hi,

I use a smart card reader along with a smart card provided by my employer. It had been working fine but all of a sudden it stopped working a few days back. Now when I try to login, I do not receive a prompt to input the PIN. Thus the page with the VM launcher
does not open up. I have reinstalled all the drivers. Still the system does not prompt for PIN. The card reader and card is working on other systems. Kindly suggest some solution.

 

Smart card reader causes force restart

Here is my problem. I needed to log in to a website with a smart card, so I plugged in my smart card reader (I have installed and used it before).

When I plugged in the smart card reader, none of the LEDs on the card reader were lighting up to indicate it was connected. Strange, but I decided to plug in my smart card and try to login to the website anyway.

When I clicked "log in with smart card" on the site, Windows popped up a message saying my computer would be automatically restarted in 1 minute.

This happened on all 3 of my computers at home (all fully-updated Windows 10), with 2 different smart card readers. Updating the smart card drivers and rebooting did not help - the issue still persists.

Once (but not all the times it happened) I got a BSOD with error SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED.

How should I go about fixing this issue?