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Laptop no longer recognizing cardbus wireless adapter?!

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by jviscomi

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Have an older Compaq Evo n800c laptop running WinXP Pro with a Belkin Wireless-G cardbus adapter. Was working fine, no changes, when the system stopped recognizing the adapter.

It shows up in the Device Manager as an unknown device, and while I can't stop it before removing it (because it doesn't show up in the "safely remove hardware" list), when I pull the card out the system plays the remove device sound. The Wireless-G card works fine in other laptops, so it's not the card, and an old wireless-B card works intermittently in the laptop. I ran the Winsock fix for XP 1.2 and it didn't help. Any ideas?

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by oh smeg

A Windows Patch may have broken the old drivers or you may have a Hardware issue with the Compaq.

Anyway try looking here for new or newer drivers than what you currently have.

http://tinyurl.com/5j4sb

Not sure what you can do to test the Card Buss Interface short of plugging in something else and see if it works properly. Ideals something not a WiFi Card would be a good idea.

Have you tried looking in the actual Socket to see if there is any damage?

Post back it that doesn't help.

Col

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