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3com wireless card woes felix 11-30-2004
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Posted by felix on November 30, 2004, 8:16 am
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 I bought a 3com 802.11g X-jack pcmcia card off ebay, and immediately I
installed it (using the newest driver off 3com's site) I got crazy CPU
spiking which would lock up my notebook every few seconds or so.
Disable the card, problem goes away.
I checked in Device Manager when it's installed, says everything's
fine, no conflicts.
Any ideas?


Posted by Quaoar on November 30, 2004, 3:19 pm
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 felix wrote:
> I bought a 3com 802.11g X-jack pcmcia card off ebay, and immediately I
> installed it (using the newest driver off 3com's site) I got crazy CPU
> spiking which would lock up my notebook every few seconds or so.
> Disable the card, problem goes away.
> I checked in Device Manager when it's installed, says everything's
> fine, no conflicts.
> Any ideas?

Incorrect driver installation? Check the docs, make sure that the
driver is not to be installed before inserting the card the first time.

Q




Posted by felix32 on December 10, 2004, 5:13 am
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> Incorrect driver installation? Check the docs, make sure that the
> driver is not to be installed before inserting the card the first
time.

It is to be installed first, yes, without the card inserted: there's an
installer app on the cd which starts up OK but hangs at an early screen
marked 'Configuring Your System' - hangs all day if necessary, I left
it all afternoon.
So I cancelled that, put the card in and let winXP find it and browsed
Install Hardware to the driver on the cd. Windows thought it installed
fine.
Then I get the cpu spikes as described above.



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