Ive got a small problem...

Published on December 9, 2003 By EventHorizon In WinCustomize Talk

...with my wireless NIC on our laptop.

After it (the computer) boots up, I plug in the card (it's PCMCIA)...it warms up...then, right after the little speech-bubble saying 'wireless connection found' (or whatever)...the computer freezes...So, I pull the card out and it works...for about 5 seconds.

Then I get WinXp's modified version of the BSoD that says something like , Windows has detected an error, and has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer... It also says something about ndis.sys in the technical info.

It used to be just every couple times or so it did this, but now its invariable, and makes checking email impossible...Or close to it...luckily, Ive got a wired 10/100 Nic that doesnt freeze the comp, but (for various reasons) this is only a temporary solution.

Ive tried re-installing the drivers, but this doesnt help...

Comments (Page 2)

kongit

on Dec 09, 2003

Iplural, the problem with all sleeping pills is they give me bad dreams, or at least they used to.

kona0197

on Dec 09, 2003

funny I used to be on prozac and had the same experience.

EventHorizon

on Dec 09, 2003

All right IP, looks like its getting better, but still not there yet...

Found an old 'network adapter' that seemed to be causing a conflict...deleted it and popped the Wi-Fi card in... It worked for about 30 seconds and didnt hang...but I got a new BSoD that said IRQ_LESS_OR_NOTEQUAL...

just restarted...

EventHorizon

on Dec 09, 2003

I can beat you in processing power (900), but not in memory. (128) The bad part about it is that its shared ram, up to 32Mb...So, running XP with around 100mb of avaliable ram...Its not pretty.

IPlural

on Dec 09, 2003

heck my t-22 900 mhtz is faster than this r-32 1.6 ghz P4 M...

event, what make/model nic is it again?

IPlural

on Dec 09, 2003

same here Travis, childhood amoung other things can do that to a people

kongit

on Dec 09, 2003

funny, during childhood I never had the problem, it started when I was about 18. And came with it a host of other problems that I don't want to remember (my senior year in high school I was barely there). Over all that now

EventHorizon

on Dec 09, 2003

The wired is a CNet and the wireless is D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G

(Who thinks up these dumb names...I mean come on...Xtreme G?)

kongit

on Dec 09, 2003

it sounds like a defective card, but I know little in the terms of wireless. It took me 4 hours to get a wireless adapter to work with my 3com card at my parents house. here at my dorm I am treated with a 10meg direct connection. Its kind of sad that I don't want to go home over break to a dsl connection because its so much slower

IPlural

on Dec 09, 2003

Go into Administrative Tools/Event Viewer/System and look for a red circle with an X in it, error....

See what it tells you if anything about the NIC, it sounds to me as if your needing an update on the nic driver. NDIS is not being assigned correctly to that specific nic, though it works fine with the wired wired nic...

EventHorizon

on Dec 09, 2003

K.. will try...

IPlural

on Dec 09, 2003

pull the nic and let me know what revision the nic is, it is part of the serial number

it is the last three chars of the serial number for the nic

like "V.C1" at the end of the serial number string...

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EventHorizon

on Dec 09, 2003

There are so many little X's in there its not even funny...Most of them say the source is Dhcp...

EventHorizon

on Dec 09, 2003

S/N is BN2K234000481

So, 481...

EventHorizon

on Dec 09, 2003

It also has...

H/W: B2

F/W: 2.20

Not sure what those are...
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