Ive got a small problem...

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...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...
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
IPlural is your man for this one...
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yea, I dunno if hes awake...
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Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
He is.......
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
you've removed the nic, not just the driver from you contrl panel/system/hardware settings and rebooted without the nic, thne shut down and then booted up with the nic in the slot so it id's it and reinstalls the driver ?
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Its what...2:10 there? (Florida)
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmm Ill try that... Ive got the laptop right here...
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Its what...2:10 there? (Florida)


yes it is but I don't sleep very much if at all...
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
what make/model laptop?
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
same here, insomnia. Can't get rid of it. Once got addicted to sleeping pills. Not a fun experience. Now i can't stand pills in any form
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Dell Inspiron 2500...
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Dell Inspiron 2500...


nice...
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have a Inspiron 5100 and I love it.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Travis, yeah, I was/am supposed to be on 200 - 250 milgram Trazdone

but even then I do not sleep all that well because it causes vivid dreams 90% of the time...
all the others don't work worth a flying ahhh, well don't work
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Actually kona, its about 1& 1/2 yrs old...

Its also unbearably slow, needs more ram...
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
still it is a dell. gotta love em. My dell was made in 2000 and only has 192 megs ram and a p3 733 mhz chip.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Iplural, the problem with all sleeping pills is they give me bad dreams, or at least they used to.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
funny I used to be on prozac and had the same experience.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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...
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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?
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
same here Travis, childhood amoung other things can do that to a people
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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?)
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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...