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    Laptop does not boot with Intel WiFi card.

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by tuηay, Oct 14, 2011.

  1. tuηay

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    Hello guys,

    I've had my laptop apart (asus) for some time due to lack of working parts. Now I got it up and running again but there is a issue. The original wifi card in this laptop was a arheros card, I've plugged in a intel 5100 and it boots fine at first startup, but when I shutdown the laptop and try to restart it it simply just goes around and around on windows startup an wont get pass. I have to boot into safe mode and disable the card. Then I can start up my laptop again, in normal way.

    The intel driver won't install either. It freezes. I use a modded bios to bypass the whitelist check.

    When i try to install my is with this card in the installation never finishes. At last step, after restart it goes around and around.

    Any ideas? Never seen anything like this.
     
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    Have you reformatted your hard drive? there could be a conflict between drivers. There might also be a issue within the bios and you might want to look there.
     
    azn4lif3s, Oct 15, 2011
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    As I said, it does the same with even completely clean install of windows. Nothing in the bios.
     
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    Are you sure that the card itself is fully functional?
    Can you check that in another notebook? (whiltelist might stop you from doing this I guess)
     
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    It worked perfectly fine with my Acer, signature, before I replaced it. Can it be Acer branded?
     
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    No- Acer doesn't do things like that.
     
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    That is also what I know, what can it be then?
     
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    UPDATE: 6300 in my ACER did not work either. Even with the same driver as I use on my ACER. Hmm, anything we missing here?
     
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    Acer or Asus? I'm lost- where didn't the 6300 work?
     
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    Does work with ACER, not with ASUS, the 6300.
     
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    So neither works with Asus, right?
    Is the mini-PCI Express slot working correctly?
     
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    No, but the slot is working, because when I plug the Atheros card back in now, it does work...
     
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    Wow, that is one weird problem, i've swapped the Atheros in both my Asus for 6200s and it was pretty much plug and play. I suppose that when you did the swap, you uninstalled the Atheros drivers from the device manager, swapped the adapters and tried to install the Intel drivers. One stupid question, you were trying to install the drivers for the right version of windows, 32-bit or 64-bit. Before i did the swap to 64-bit on my N50, i once or twice tried installing 64-bit drivers that i copied over from another computer that was 64-bit. It's the kind of things you can forget sometimes.
     
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    No, I only use 64-bit OS on all of my system. So, no the driver is 64-bit version. But, I don't get this...
     
    tuηay, Oct 15, 2011
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