I own a Compaq Evo N1015v and last year I purchased a D-Link DWL650+
wireless PCMCIA card for it.
Whe I first started using the card, everything seemed to work fine.
However, over the past couple of months, I've
experienced very strange problems.
When I restarted the computer, the card would not be recognized.
I uninstalled the driver, restarted the computer, reinserted the card, and
everything would be fine again.
I downloaded the most recent version of the D-Link software, as they
recommended, and tried that.
However, lately the problem has gotten worse...now when I insert the card,
Windows thinks it's a Texas Instruments ACX100 wireless card instead...it
installs default drivers for this device.
I noticed a new device in device manager called "Jungo" with a picture of a
network card, but it is not in the network section. I thought that was
suspicious so I rolled back to a system restore point from a time when all
used to work.
No luck, still the card was mis-recognised as the TI ACX100 (which is the
chipset on the Dlink card).
So I uninstalled everything (again) and reinserted the card - and accepted
the TI drivers Windows XP offered me.
Without the D-Link drivers installed the card seems to work!!
It picked up a wireless network from somewhere else in the office building,
so maybe it's going to work at home.
I think that it is related to a Windows update installed over the last few
weeks, but which one I have no idea.
I tried with a Belkin card, and that worked for one day.
Next day I tried inserting the car - it locked up the laptop SOLID.
100% CPU resources assigned to "System" in task mangler - not really
helpful.
And the CA antivirus bouncing ball stopped bouncing.
So I uninstalled it all and that card's going back to PC World.
But I still think that it's Windows XP that is the problem here, not the
DLink card.
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PAul
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