Having an issue with installing a wireless NetGear MA301 card.
I disable the on-board network connection, shut down the pc, and install the wireless card. Upon boot, windows will detect the new device then freeze at trying to load the drivers, have to do a Hard boot. Next it boots to safe mode, I do a soft boot. Windows loads normally and shows new wireless card in device manager but shows as not functioning. I run the wireless card setup from manufacturers CD, system freezes after accepting the license agreement, have to do a hard boot. I’ve tried also to just update driver, windows does find the driver file, but still lists the card as Not Working Properly and upon rebooting, windows will load but will hang after it comes up, the mousemoves but clicking on anything results in no action, have to do a hard boot. I purchased two dells, the exact same configuration, and this happens on both of them, they are Dell OptiPlex GX150, running WIN98, 256MB of RAM & clean new 12Gig hard drives. (previous machine ran fine with this same wireless card in Win98)
Please help. Thanks Beth
