the wireless networking problem is the last paragraph if you dont want to read the other stuff
I got a special sony wireless card, got a smokin deal on it too.
this is a wireless B card that sold for $100
this is a wireless a/b/g card i just got for 39.99 buy it now. LIsting had only been going for like an hour
anyways, i go to put it in, and it wont go quite all the way in. I go and check my moms computer and it goes in fine. I thought maybe it just needed a little more force, but i still couldnt get it in. So i go to put my old one back in and the computer freezes. yeah, i guess i tried to hard to put the sony one back in. Well i decided to take it apart, since i pretty much thought the whole thing was destroyed anyways. After taking it apart as much as one can, I noticed that some of the pins for the card were pushed back. Using a screw driver, i was able to push them back in. I bent one of them, but who cares, it beats a new mother board! which would be impossible to get for this model.
That being said, I still cant connect to the internet with the card. I was able to put it in fine and it installed fine but it just shows up as local area connection 3 and it has the little x on the icon because it cant connect. the old one shows up as local area connection and it works fine. any ideas? I'm running windows 2000
here are some pics
peices all over the place
da mother board
the pins
7 years old and still bitchin
I got a special sony wireless card, got a smokin deal on it too.
this is a wireless B card that sold for $100
this is a wireless a/b/g card i just got for 39.99 buy it now. LIsting had only been going for like an hour
anyways, i go to put it in, and it wont go quite all the way in. I go and check my moms computer and it goes in fine. I thought maybe it just needed a little more force, but i still couldnt get it in. So i go to put my old one back in and the computer freezes. yeah, i guess i tried to hard to put the sony one back in. Well i decided to take it apart, since i pretty much thought the whole thing was destroyed anyways. After taking it apart as much as one can, I noticed that some of the pins for the card were pushed back. Using a screw driver, i was able to push them back in. I bent one of them, but who cares, it beats a new mother board! which would be impossible to get for this model.
That being said, I still cant connect to the internet with the card. I was able to put it in fine and it installed fine but it just shows up as local area connection 3 and it has the little x on the icon because it cant connect. the old one shows up as local area connection and it works fine. any ideas? I'm running windows 2000
here are some pics
peices all over the place
da mother board
the pins
7 years old and still bitchin
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