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marcelluseaster
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September 13th, 2006 18:00
Wireless
I am trying to intall a wireless PCI card on my son's computer. But the computer can not find the PCI card. I have install the software and there is a green light on the card. Under the system device there is a yellow question mark.
The main computer is set up with the wireless router and working.
I have contacted Linksys and they could not help. Can someone help me?
Marcellus
- That sound like a driver problem...Ehmmm... you run Win XP right? New networkcards usually doesn't need special drivers to start in XP. But they usually works better if you look for the most resent driver on the manufactorer web.If you use windows pre Win2k like 98 or even worse 95 it's like that you can't get the card to work right.(Hit F2 or F8 or whatever key used on you computer to open BIOS-pages on computer boot up. Can you find anything there about WiFi?)Did the "software" install the drivers for you aswell? Sometimes you really need to install the software before you install the hardware (yes thats really stupid :)
Good luck!
/Richard
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Posted January 31st, 2007 23:00
If you've got a yellow excalamation point in the Device Manager, there is something keeping the card from working correctly. My bet would be an IRQ conflict. Look at the resources tab and see if it shows a conflict, then try to change the settings either on the PCI card or on whatever device it is conflicting with.
bacillus
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Posted September 13th, 2006 21:00