Re: WinME to Win2K Pro Upgrade loses Wirless Card?
From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 10/09/04
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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:03:26 -0600
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-- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "John O'Boyle" wrote: |I have, among other boxes, a Gateway Solo 9300 laptop that had been | (very successfully) running under WinME. This laptop is an older model | with a Celeron processor and less than 256kb of memory. Not having read | (as I recently did in this group) that it wasn't possible to upgrade | WinME to Win2K Pro, I went ahead and did it anyway. There was only one | hitch. My Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter no longer worked. The | Linksys people told me many, and varied, untruths about what the problem | might be. The last possible answer was that, since I hadn't uninstalled | the drivers for that card BEFORE I performed the upgrade, I was now out | of luck and would need to reformat, and reinstall a virgin copy of Win2K. | | Gullible me did just that, never mind the aggravation of having to | re-install thirty to forty apps! With a new clean Win2K, I installed | the software for the Linksys Notebook adapter and it seemed to perform | flawlessly...Until I powered down the box and brought it back up again. | Now it would no longer initiate the adapter. With a little | experimentation, I discovered that if I brought the box up with the card | OUT of the slot, and THEN plugged it in, it would work just fine. Back | on the horn to the Linksys people. About five hours, and several | technicians later, the general feeling at Linksys is that the problem | lies with Microsoft and it's Win2K software. They cite that the fact | that the card worked just fine under WinME, on the same box, means that | there IS no hardware problem. A little short-sighted as far as I'm | concerned, however. They neglect to recall that THEY wrote the drivers | and card-utility programs. | | Anyway (and thanks for listening this far) I'd like to know if anyone | knows of problems (and solutions) for the above situation. Works when | inserted AFTER boot up and WILL NOT WORK if the card is IN at boot time. | I've three more Gatewway Notebooks that I'd like to move up to Win2K | and I'd prefer to use the upgrade path and NOT the "wipe-it-all-away" | method! | | As an aside, a Netgear 32 bit Buscard (WG511) works perfectly ALL the | time in this setup. Another work-around of course will be to junk the | Linksys cards and move to Netgear. Any and all help and/or advice will | be appreciated. | | Thanks. | | John O'Boyle
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