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galapagos9   08-24-2008 at 08:43:31 PM

I just finished building my new PC. The only problem is that I can't get my wirless card to work...

Whenever I plug in my network card into the PCI slot, either Windows Vista (64 bit) won't finish booting or once Windows starts, the card doesn't work. Usually it is the prior of the two (the little scrolling load bar freezes after a cycle or two).

There has been one instance where I've gotten the network card to work, but once I restarted, Windows froze on the boot.

I also noticed that Vista wants to load an "Atheros wireless network card" driver. When I try to update it to the D-link drivers, Windows says that the best driver is already loaded.

I've been trying everything I can think of to get it working but im outta ideas. The Motherboardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherboard is a Gigabyte (GA-X48-DS4) and the wireless cardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_network_interface_card is a D-Link (DWL-G520 rev.B).

Is there a setting that isn't configured correctly either in Windows or BIOS?

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badge   08-24-2008 at 10:42:19 PM
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Probably should uninstall the curren driver and download the VISTA 64 driver listed here on the website. If the Vista 64 driver still won't load prperly, try installing it in Safe Mode. HTH.

http://support.dlink.com/products/ [...] 20%5FrevB#

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ohiou_grad_06   08-25-2008 at 03:29:36 AM
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Also, could try an XP driver if worse comes to worse. Never know, it may take it and be happy for years to come.

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Scotteq   08-25-2008 at 02:03:57 PM
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ohiou_grad_06 wrote :

Also, could try an XP driver if worse comes to worse. Never know, it may take it and be happy for years to come.




The driver model in Vista is different from XP's... So this approach would be a real crap shoot...

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