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Bondy111 Guru Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Gloucestershire, England Posts: 962	Wireless card not recognised 08/28/2009 9:25 AM
	Hi. Today, I decided to move my room around. I turned my pc off, turned the PSU off and then removed the plug. I proceeded to move my desk around, then once everything was plugged back in, my wireless card was suddenly not recognised. I tried a system restore, un-installing and installing the driver and swapping PCI slots. Nothing seemed to work. I then put the card back in the original PCI, and then my wireless internet worked fine (hence I can post this). Does anybody know why this may have happened, and how to prevent it? __________________ bondy111
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bwire Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upper Mid-west USA Posts: 7498 Good Answers: 97	#1 Re: Wireless card not recognised 08/28/2009 11:52 PM
	port assignments __________________ If death came with a warning there would be a whole lot less of it.
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logan Power-User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Allen, TX Posts: 107 Good Answers: 2	#2 Re: Wireless card not recognised 09/03/2009 8:53 AM
	Hi, Bondy, glad your system came back to life. Maybe it was just a loose connection somewhere. I sympathize with your concern about prevention but it's hard to diagnose something that's no longer broke. If it's any consolation, my old (5-years) homebuilt system does stuff like that sometimes. Until I get enough disposable $$$ to buy a new system, I just keep blowing the dust out and reseating the cards and it keeps coming back to life. Kinda like my cat. She can't count too well and has used more than her allotted number of lives. :) Regards, Logan
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Bondy111 Guru Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Gloucestershire, England Posts: 962	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Wireless card not recognised 09/03/2009 10:44 AM
	Aww. Poor cat. My system is only 4 months old though. Never mind though... I will say again when it does it again... __________________ bondy111
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logan Power-User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Allen, TX Posts: 107 Good Answers: 2	#4 In reply to #3 Re: Wireless card not recognised 09/03/2009 4:47 PM
	Ah, I think I wasn't clear about the cat and her lives. She's still going strong but by my calculations she should be currently on life #12. I think she's borrowing them from somewhere... Sure, let us know if it messes up again. I don't know a whole lot but sometimes I get something right. Logan
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maveric_manic Guru Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Los Angeles, California USA Posts: 553 Good Answers: 1	#5 Re: Wireless card not recognised 11/06/2009 7:48 PM
	I have a scanner that loses its driver when turning off power to it so I leave it on. __________________ Regards, Maveric Manic - 'Knowledge is Power and Wisdom is knowing how to use it'
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