computer freezes up when dlink card installed 1

[KlausNomiFan]

Scenario: new computer, 2000 pro OS, works fine within itself. DLink wireless card, also new. Software installs fine. (yes, antivirus is disabled.) Card installs fine, is recognized, gets strong signal, but totally locks the machine up EVERY time, though not always at the same point. Sometimes it lets a few tasks be done before freezing, sometimes it is frozen upon startup. Sometimes it causes machine to restart itself. ESC, Ctrl-Alt-Del, Window key, nothing thaws it out. It even froze up in safe mode once. Have tried all PCI slots, it doesn't matter. There are only 2 other machines in our house, both using DLink products with no problems at all. We use a cable modem. The only device connected to this machine is a printer/copier/fax, which works fine. Anybody got ideas? If responding by email, please use "wireless card" as subject or it will get deleted. Thanks in advance.

 

[bcastner]

Return the faulty card for a replacement.

 

[tharder]

Sounds like a faulty card as bcastner said. You might want to make sure you have no IRQ conflicts. Some devices(not just your nic) don't (plug &)play fairly...

 

[KlausNomiFan]

Thanks much for the replies. I'm leaning towards the IRQ conflict, because I returned the original card, got another one, and it still doesn't function properly. The chances of getting two faulty cards seems pretty slim. I personally have not fooled with IRQ settings, but would rather learn than pay someone to do it. Is this particularly tricky? Is this accessed through windows, or in the DOS area? Thanks again for any info.

 

[tharder]

Type WINMSD on your 2000 box and it will give you an idea what windows thinks things are.

Depending on you motherboard, you can also lock certain IRQ's in your system BIOS settings to specific slots and over-ride the plug and play... this gets messy sometimes.

I find that disabling motherboard device controllers that are not used... COM2(irq3), USB2(irq3or5), LPT2(irq5), or IDE2(irq14or15), video slot(irq11) for example free up interrupts and your nic card will use that instead of trying to share.

Also bus slot timing may be too fast for that card...

 

[bcastner]

Get into Device Manager.

Highlight the PCMCIA Controller.

You want to change the driver from the chipset specific driver "TI xxxx" or whatever, to the Microsoft Generic PCMICIA driver.

Reboot, reinsert the card and let us know what happens.

 

[ariepf]

Hello KlausNomiFan, I expirience exactly same problem with DWL-G650 cardd that I'm trying to install onto my presario 17xl notebook. It freezes ...nothing but hard reset awake it.


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