As Wi-Fi hotspots are mushrooming all over the world, they let people have the chance to get rid of those inflexible network cables and surf on the net wirelessly in the WLAN. However, a high-performance wireless Internet access is not an easy thing for some users, because when contacting with your wireless network, your wireless network adapter may probably meet a lot of strange failures, which may seriously affect your networking experience if you don’t fix them in time, and the blue screen is one that among those common failures.
If blue screen shows on your computer immediately after you installed a wireless network card, above all, you need to check whether the net card driver you installed is compatible with your operating system, for example, if your driver is only available in Windows 2000, but you have installed it in Windows XP, well then your computer would be more likely to have a blue screen. Therefore, make sure you have installed the correct network card driver.
If your driver is compatible with your system and has been installed properly, you need to go through the installation of this network adapter, and check whether it has inserted to the right slot or port properly, for if you pull out the card from its PCMCIA port on the motherboard or its USB port just a few seconds after plugging it, blue screen would lightly happen, because frequent pullout and plug may make network adapter’s corresponding port confused and fail to identify this adapter. Additionally, if you pull out your net card suddenly when its LINK light is blinking, that would also leads to blue screen, or even worse, your computer or your network card’s port would be damaged.
By: Molly Smith
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How to Deal With Dual Network Cards Conflict
December 29th, 2009
Many people now have two computers, as to enable both to access the network, they often make use of the dual network cards to connect their computers and make them as a local area network (or LAN), which would cost much less than purchase a router. However, sometimes due to the model and the quality of these two adapters or your PC compatibility problems, they have a conflict. How can we tackle it?
Using dual NIC cards to access the network is only a temporary plan, if there is some problem when applying the double cards connection, we should consider troubleshooting it from the aspects below:
Computer restart
Generally when you finish installing some software, Windows prompts you to restart; sometimes you think it a troublesome and reboot the computer till all software has been installed. You’d better restart your PC when installing the first net card and then turn to set up the next one. Because when installation is over, the system not only would assign the interrupt request and the memory available resource to you network adapter, but also configure the port and the IP for it, actually it is more convenient for your PC to carry out its work by rebooting and then installing the next adapter.
Net card speed and connections
When you build the network, you should think over the communication problem between the 10/100M and 10M network adapters: when they are interconnected in two computers, you would probably find that they are not reachable across the IP network, or they are shown connected normally but you can not browse the website. Such errors often happen when two net cards with different transmission speeds exchanging their data packs. To resolve this failure, you can try to contact your 10/100M network adapter to the external line and use an adapter with the same speed in the inner connection.
By: Molly Smith
Wireless USB Network Card Not Working – Troubleshooting
December 15th, 2009
If you use a wireless USB network adapter to access the network, probably you have met such problems before: the adapter has already been installed in the computer, and the system has recognized it, at the same time there is a message on the screen tells that its driver is installing, but when the installation is complete, you find that your wireless network card can not work and you wonder how to fix it.
As a matter of fact, if you check this problem carefully, you will find the USB port feature on your motherboard has been successfully enabled since your computer recognizes this card, also the computer USB port and the network card USB interface have no problem. Obviously, it is the improper installation of your adapter driver leading to this error.
Generally you need to install or update the relevant USB controller program for the first time to use the computer USB port. Therefore, you can open the Device Manager (Start / Control Panel / System / Hardware / Device Manager), double-click Universal Serial Bus Controllers, right-click the related controller and select Update Driver to keep its driver up to date.
If the approach above fails, and then you can check whether the network card driver has been installed correctly, for the installation of some wireless USB network adapters is different from that of the normal ones: you need to firstly install their drivers, next plug the card into the computer, and then system will configure and install them automatically, if the order is wrong, it would also easily make your card unable to work.
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By: Molly Smith
