Re: Device Mgr. mistakes wireless card for PCI device

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Dang, have flashed bios.

New problem!!!

Tried another card and system recognized it as an adapter (Yahoo!) Driver
loaded but now have new problem. Device will not start because it cannot
find enough free resources (error code 12). Searched Microsoft and found
they recommend that OS might be a problem or bios. I think I will now try to
move this OS to winxp and see if I can resolve this. BTW, I disabled as many
unused devices as I could, including the onboard nic to gain resources, no
resolution. If you can spare me one more response regarding this error
before I upgrade OS I would apprieciate it.

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> If you believe the device is not connected to the pci bus then the system
> bios may need to be upgraded. Check with the laptop manufacturer on this.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
> "Howie J." wrote:
> | Dave, thanks for your patience with me!
> | * The pint I'm missing is; you've told us nothing more than "it will not
> | > recognize the correct drivers
> |
> | I do not know what more you would need here, but I will elaborate as best
> I
> | can.
> |
> | I have the originall drivers for these devices on cd and have also
> | downloaded updated drivers for these devices from the manufacturer's
> website.
> |
> |
> | I have attempted to install the drivers by using the "have disk" function
> | and pointing to extracted driver folders or the appropriate folder on the
> cd.
> | In all cases that I have tried I recieve the error that windows cannot
> find
> | a driver for the device and it will not function. As I said before I have
> | gone throught this with the techs at SMC with no resolution. They seem to
> | believe that the OS is recognizing the card incorrectly as a PCI device
> and
> | that is my problem. I am asking now for your opinion if you agree with
> them?
> | Do I have a hardware issue? It cannot be the cards as they work on my xp
> | mache. Or is this normal for
> | Win2k to recognize such a card as a PCI device instead of a network
> adapter?
>
>
>
.

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