Problems with WiFi card (PCMCIA)

I'm having a old notebook which I had used for a long time. I bought a D-link WiFi card (DWL-G650+) for Wireless connectivity for the notebook.
It was working fine all these while until one fine day, I had encountered "blue screen" with the Windows XP Pro. Since that day, I am unable to use the D-link WiFi card.

When I plug in the WiFi card, it prompts me to search for driver. I pop in the CD which comes together with the card but Windows tells me that no driver was found. Then I went to the website to download the drivers and tried installing the driver again.. same thing happens..

The thing is the WiFi card works fine with other notebook.

Can someone pls help me?
Thanks in advance.

 

check ur pcmcia slot by plugging in some other working devices

 

Uninstall the driver software and remove the wifi card hardware from the control panel. Run CCleaner to remove any registry entries. Reinstall the drivers.

 

I've checked the PCMCIA slot and it's working fine.

I've removed the software but unable to locate the drivers. The WiFi card does not seem to exists in the hardware from the control panel. Whenever I plug in the WiFi card, it will prompt me that there is a new device and requesting for a driver. I will try out removing the registry entries via CCleaner.
Thanks.

 

I've tried using CCleaner to clean the registries but I'm still having the same problem.. any other ideas?

 

. did u try to manually install the driver? i.e. point xp to the inf file urself instead going thru the automatic search?
. another possibility is that the driver database (controller) is corrupt somehow and causes windows not be able to add/reference the device - a windows repair might be sensible in this case

cheers ...

 

Yeah.. tried manually installing the drivers but still not possible.
Windows repair? What do you mean?

 

boot up with windows cd, perform a repair. ur data files still be intact

cheers ...

 

What about my installed programs? will they all still be intact?

 

yes 99% of installed programs have no issue with windows repair. the other 1% may show some unpredictable behavior

 

I've tried to fix it using windows repair, but there is a problem. During the process, there will be a selection of which Windows folder to choose to repair. I have only 1 drive therefore there is only 1 windows file. I typed "1" and hit enter. After that it prompts me to enter the "Administrator" password which I do not have. It's basically empty. When I just press enter, it somehow quits the Recovery process. How to proceed?

First of all, is it possible to do Recovery using a recovery CD instead of the actual Windows recovery CD? I'm using a Dell notebook therefore the it's only normal for Dell to have a recovery CD instead of standalone Windows XP CD.

 

the so called recovery disk is infact a full windows disk. most ppl instead of repairing use it to fully format and reinstall windows xp. so why dont u also try a full format and reinstall

 

That's the last thing I wanna do...

 

^^^ why is that so ???

 

I think your card may be bad, or damaged PCMCI slot. Try the card in another nb and see if works. OR a different card.

 

I've done that.. the card has no problem..