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COMPAQ 2100 + D-Link AirPlus.G DWL-G630 wireless card Proble

by compaq2100 Jan 31, 2006 4:04AM PST

Sorry, I'm reposting my question here too, because it's related to my wireless card in notebook problem...

I hope someone will be able to help me fix my problem...

I have a COMPAQ 2100 Notebook. Recently, I installed a D-Link wireless card [AirPlus.G DWL-G630] and it was working fine. One day, I decided to see how will the connection work outside my appartment; at school. Well, as soon as I inserted the D-Link card, a msg popped up saying smt about Windows, I cannot recall exactly what and seconds later the screen went blue with a long message about a recently installed drive etc. So, as I later found out, I had to go to the D-Link website and install the last version of the drive. [BTW, when I came back home I had no problems with the comp.!] I installed it and everything was fine even outside my building.

About 10 days later, I started having problems at home. Very slow response to action, frozen screen with the mouse moving but unable to click and finally the blue screen thing AGAIN! I read online about someone having the same problem and installed updates for my COMPAQ 2100. Nothing changed. Today, I finally decided to remove D-Link and couple other things. I ran the Registry Mechanic, Hijackthis, Ad-ware and stuff like that, even Clean up. I kept having the same problem. After the blue screen the computer reboots and can never fully reload. It either stops at a certain point frozen or when I try to press F8 it wouldn't respond and continue until some point. I also tried to run the Safe Mode but it wouldn't do it. The Last Good Version thing did not work... I just turn it off, let it cool down and try again. It starts running fine until a certain point when it grows lazy, freezes and gives me the finger [blue screen and all that sh... crap all over again].

Sorry for the long explanation. Hope someobody will suggest something useful Happy

Thanks in advance,

Attila

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Persistant blue screens....
by Michael Geist Jan 31, 2006 8:15AM PST

can be a sign of failing hardware. The first place I would look is to the hard drive. A boot to your XP cd (didn't see your OS in the post), and into the Recovery Console. From there I would run CHKDSK C: /R from the command prompt.

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Michael, you were soooo right...
by compaq2100 Feb 2, 2006 1:04PM PST

Yep. It was a sign of a hard disk failure. I've had my Compaq for 2 yrs now. The 2yr warranty just expired... a month ago! : ((((( I bought a new HD...

Thanx anyways!

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My 520 card never worked.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jan 31, 2006 8:20AM PST

I gave it away and no one else could make it work. Sometimes you get a dud.

Try another make/model.

Bob

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Try a different brand
by snowman2006 Jan 31, 2006 9:20AM PST

I also have a D-Link 630 adapter card with same syptoms you have on my Sony Vaio. I could not get mine to work correctly and found posts on various forums with everybody having the same problem with d-link cards and USB adapters.
Uninstall your drivers.
Accect your loss and Buy a new card or USB adapter of a different brand.
I bought a Netgear adapter card WG511 and it works great.
No problems with my network or anybody elses. You can usually catch them onsale for around 30 dollars.

Hope this helps.

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