Desktop/Wireless help
 

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!

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.

Agreed with Simms suggestions. Let us know.

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.