Wireless driver not recognized

Question

I am running Windows XP on my Inspiron 1100 laptop and recently had to reformat it. I reinstalled the wireless card (Netgear MA521) but as many times as I try to install the driver, from either the cd or from their website, the computer will not recognize it and it doesn't appear in the Device Manager. After reinstalling the system again, it still will not recognize the driver being installed. I'm at a loss as to what to do that will make the computer recognize it.

volcano11 · Answer

Did you install the chipset drivers as the first set of drivers after reinstallation of Windows? The chipseet drivers are on your Resource CD or can be downloaded from:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=INS_PNT_CEL_1100&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=1134&devlib=27&category=27&releaseid=R50830

Steve

emsgrl87 · Answer

Oh, no I didn't. I didn't realize I needed to. I've gone through it again and installed it, but I won't know until tomorrow if it works due to another memory-type problem it is having preventing it from starting up twice in some period of time. Thank you for the help.

emsgrl87 · Answer

I believe it was a virtual memory error, it was causing it to beep randomly at me. I called Dell and they sent somebody out to fix it and they replaced the memory along with just about everything else on the computer, and now it will start up once normally and allows you to do anything, but when restarting it, or starting it up for some time after, it will attempt to start up and will shut off completely at random points before it gets all the way up and into an account.

path1467 · Answer

What kind of memory error. Is it a virtual memory error? Or what does the error message say when you are booting up?

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