Windows XP upgrade and Wireless Card Driver

Factual Questions
1

I “upgraded” from Windows XP Home to Windows XP Pro on Friday, just so I could see a printer on a remote application. Cost me $184+tax. Nice. Now that the upgrade is installed everything looks just like before, but now my wireless card is not recognized. I have a D-Link Xtreme G[sup]TM[/sup] Wireless Router and D-Link DWL-G650 card. This worked fine before the installation of XP Pro. Now the card is “not found”. I’ve tried deinstalling and reinstalling my drivers several times, plus removing and re-seating the card. None of these seem to work.

Any ideas on how to get this thing to work again?

2

One thing that seems to help fairly often in cases like this is to go the the Device Manager (Right-click My Computer, click Properties, click Hardware tab, then click the Device Manager button), and removed the affected device, then reboot. Windows should automatically redetect the devce and install the appropriate driivers for you. Also, be sure you have the latest drivers for your device and OS from the manufacturer’s website, if available.

3

Not “recognized” by the router or the PC itself?

If it’s the notebook you’re referring to go into control panel>system> hardware> device manager and make sure there’s no partially installed network device sitting there with an exclamation mark. If there is delete it from the device chain.

Then go into add/remove programs and scrub out the entire card install applet.

Go to Dlink’s web site and make sure you have the most recent and correct drivers as there are several different hardware versions of the DWL650 family of cards and they have entirely different drivers. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your specific card

Reboot and re-install . If it continues not to be recognized I’d say you have defective card.

4

Just curious, if the card worked just fine for six months or so, but suddenly stopped being recognized because the operation system changed, do you really think this is an indication of a defective card? My instinct would be that the newly introduced item, that is, the operating system software, would mostly likely be the culprit.

FWIW, it’s the PC, not the Router, that is not recognizing the card (suddenly).

5

I can’t speak for astro, of course, but in my experience, the kind of situation you describe is almost always an indication of driver problems. Of course, it’s possible that the card failed at about the same time as the OS change–I’ve seen it happen. Hopefully, this isn’t the case here. Good luck!

6

I was reading too quickly and missed the part where you’d had it for awhile pre XP Pro. Like QED said it’s certainly a driver issue of some sort.