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Hi

I apologize if this question has been asked before.

I have a dell dimension 9200 system running windows vista and 2Gb of ram. I have a wireless network card installed which has worked perfectly up until i upgraded the ram to 4Gb, now the wireless card doesn't detect any networks at all.

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why the card would work with 2Gb or ram but not 3 or 4.

Thanks

Message edited by The_Prophecy on 06-06-2010 at 10:35:48 PM

Reply to push110

Try to reset the card with the following:

Start => Run

In the dialog box, please type: netsh winsock reset

Then press the enter key and let it complete. That should reset the networking stack for you.

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Scotteq wrote :

I tried typing netsh winsock reset at the command prompt, i got the following message - the requested operation requires elevation.

Reply to push110

Run the command prompt as administrator... it's under Accessories.

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Reply to Zoron

Zoron wrote :

Run the command prompt as administrator... it's under Accessories.

Thanks for that, it worked but hasn't had any effect on the wireless card.

Reply to push110

remove the device from device manager, reinstall drivers with the latest ones - that's what I would try

BTW what does device manager have to say about the device?

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Reply to notherdude

I've tried removing the device and reinstalling it and it still doesn't work.

Device manager reports that the device is working properly.

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