Computer PCI slot not working

[The Pastor]

as sad as this maybe, the fact remains that im more likley to get help with a computer problem than a bike one, so here goes!


Moved my PC to a new room, and need wireless connections to the internets.

bought myself a PCI wireless adaptor, followed instructions, installed drivers etc but windoze is not picking up the pci card in the slot. (no found new hardware popup when card is first installed)

So tried to install the card manually through control panel/add new hardwhere.

It installs it, but it says cannot start device error 10.

I think my pci slots are not working?

any advice?

Thanks muchly,


Rm


Edit - running windoze xp PRO!

[Cajun]

tryed putting it another of the pci slots?

[The Pastor]

tryed putting it another of the pci slots?

yeah i have 2 pci slots and have tired both of them

[Insanity_rules]

This error may appear if a device has insufficient power to operate correctly.Check that the connector is seating on the board properly. Did you use the install disk before putting the card in?

[Cajun]

do you have an old network card/modem you can try in the pci slots? to see if the pci slots are fired or if its the wifi card.

i also had issues with some wifi cards few years ago, and use the usb dongle things instead now days

[Usarka]

Is it plugged in?

[PirateJafa]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[The Pastor]

nope dont have anything else that could plug in, and yes it is plugged in

[Cajun]

do you see see in the bios post message, you know the screen after it shows you cpu & counts ram, but before os boots.

since often it shows devices in there

[riffer]

It doesn't have a slot on the card for a molex connector does it? If it does, give it some power and turn on again.

[SMOKEU]

Definately check the BIOS and the device manager. Update the motherboard drivers as well. If all else fails you could reflash your BIOS.

[Usarka]

At the post initiate a flash reboot. Ignore any errors about FSB initialisation and continue through to the QDIF section. If you haven't downloaded the right BIOS version for your PCI, CPU and FUV then you might be stuffed. Up the voltage for the PCI sub bus, reboot through safe mode and verify the hardware device.

Simple.

[The Pastor]

This error may appear if a device has insufficient power to operate correctly.Check that the connector is seating on the board properly. Did you use the install disk before putting the card in?

card is fully in, i used the install disk before inserting card

do you see see in the bios post message, you know the screen after it shows you cpu & counts ram, but before os boots.

since often it shows devices in there

nope dosent show up

It doesn't have a slot on the card for a molex connector does it? If it does, give it some power and turn on again.

no molex slots on the card

Definately check the BIOS and the device manager. Update the motherboard drivers as well. If all else fails you could reflash your BIOS.

check what in the bios?

[Hard Nut]

Beats me man, I was going to say turn off and turn on again, but you did that already.

Nuts

[p.dath]

Some gueses:

* it's a 3.3V PCI card, and your motherboard only supports 5V, or vice versa
* it's a PCI-X card, and your putting it into a PCI card
* the card is a dud, and has a fault. See if you can verify that the card works in another computer.