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    trying to upgrade acer aspire 2026.wireless card.help

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by faria, Sep 2, 2005.

  1. faria

    faria Notebook Enthusiast

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    :centrino: my Acer aspire 2026 has an intel mini pci wireless card (intel pro wirelles 2200) which is total crap so decided to upgrade with a intel pro woreless 2915 abg ,so I plug the new card in and rebooted I notice that the intel centrino logo in boot screen was replaced by Pentium m ,loged in and the computer detected the new card and hask for the drivers ,the installation went fine ,then I press the hardware button to turn the card on got the message “wireless card not found” then is used the software utility to turn it on got the message “use the hardware button to turn the card on”.
    After hours of this and no joy I put the pc in stand by inserted the card and resumed the pc and it starded working even the hardware button so I thougt great.,. until I reboot and it stops working even do the card is detected,it seems to me that the bios does not recognise the card even that the card is part of the trio that makes centrino .so I guess if ypu cannot use this card in the laptop that means you cannot upgrade it in future with faster cards.does any one had come across this problem or know of a solution ?
     
    faria, Sep 2, 2005
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    Hmmm, does Acer offer a BIOS upgrade that might fix this?
     
    Brian, Sep 3, 2005
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  3. Venombite

    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    It's possible this could be a similar problem that happens in HP notebooks. HP doesn't want foreign cards in their notebooks, so they seem to lock their BIOS's so that it doesn't recognize other cards except for their own. This might be a similar problem. Since the system changed it's bootup screen from Centrino to Pentium M, it did recognize a foreign card in the system (I think the 2915 didn't come out until the 915 Chipset was released).

    -Vb-
     
    Venombite, Sep 3, 2005
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