Desktop/Wireless help

[Radii]

I have a 802.11g wireless card in my desktop, it came installed along with a regular 10/100 ethernet card when I bought the machine last year. I've had the wireless adapter disabled but now that i've moved, i'm nowhere near the router/dsl modem and will need to use wireless. After enabling the wireless card my desktop freezes immediately, and on all subsequent reboots freezes on startup unless I go into safe mode and disable the wireless adapter again.

I don't even know what brand I have, other than in the Windows->System settings it says "802.11g Wireless LAN PCI Card"

Any suggestions? Is this a common/known problem(google seems to find tons of info on laptops but little on desktops)? The wireless router is a linksys router, and I can do whatever needed to get more info on the desktop if it helps.

TIA!

[Simms]

You might crack open the case and make sure it's still seated properly. Seeing as you just moved, it wouldn't be unusual for the card to have jiggled out a little.

If that doesn't work, I'd try uninstalling and reinstalling the card entirely. (ie, shut down, remove the card, reboot. Then shut down, re-insert the card, reboot and let XP "rediscover" the new hardware.) If you can actually uninstall the driver (from within add/remove programs or from the device manager), even better.

[DanGarion]

Agreed with Simms suggestions. Let us know.

[Radii]

Thanks for the suggestions, this was actually something that never worked, and I was just using wired until now. I tried all of the above w/ no luck. I went out and got a USB flash drive today and downloaded updated drivers on another computer and xferred them over. Of course, duh, updated drivers always fix everything but is never something I think of looking for until I try 30 other things first without success.