- Jul 11, 2013
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Hi All,
I am in the process of cleaning up and old laptop for my parents. Details of which are below.
IQon Laptop
Windows XP
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M 1.50 GHz
248MB RAM
Ralink 802.11g MiniPCI Wireless Network Card Adaptor
Phoenix Bios date Sept 5th 2005
Motherboard LM1WN
I have cleaned the hard drive using DBAN. I have re-installed Windows XP. I have found and installed the drivers for the Ralink Network Card.
In the Device Manager, under Network adapters, the 'Device status' states that the card is working properly. The driver date for this card is 12/15/2004 and the driver version is 3.0.1.0
Basically this network card cannot detect my wifi network. I have been using USB network card as a stand in which does pick up my wifi network.
I have checked in the Bios in order to see if the PCI slot has been turned off but I cannot see an option for any PCI slots.
That fact that the device manager is saying that it is working properly is annoying me when it is clearly not working.
In the bottom right of my laptop screen, the 'Ralink Wireless LAN Card' icon says its disconnected when i hover over it which conflicts with the device manager saying it is working properly.
I have not looked into updating the bios because I know this can be dangerous?
Maybe someone has had the same problem so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, TrevorW
I am in the process of cleaning up and old laptop for my parents. Details of which are below.
IQon Laptop
Windows XP
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M 1.50 GHz
248MB RAM
Ralink 802.11g MiniPCI Wireless Network Card Adaptor
Phoenix Bios date Sept 5th 2005
Motherboard LM1WN
I have cleaned the hard drive using DBAN. I have re-installed Windows XP. I have found and installed the drivers for the Ralink Network Card.
In the Device Manager, under Network adapters, the 'Device status' states that the card is working properly. The driver date for this card is 12/15/2004 and the driver version is 3.0.1.0
Basically this network card cannot detect my wifi network. I have been using USB network card as a stand in which does pick up my wifi network.
I have checked in the Bios in order to see if the PCI slot has been turned off but I cannot see an option for any PCI slots.
That fact that the device manager is saying that it is working properly is annoying me when it is clearly not working.
In the bottom right of my laptop screen, the 'Ralink Wireless LAN Card' icon says its disconnected when i hover over it which conflicts with the device manager saying it is working properly.
I have not looked into updating the bios because I know this can be dangerous?
Maybe someone has had the same problem so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, TrevorW
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