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If the PC fails to even initialise then you can discount any
firmware/software issues, given that it occurs with multiple cards then you
can ignore a card problem thus there must be a physical problem in the
motherboard or power supply....

When you turn the system on, does anything happen (fans/HDD spin up?), if
not then it is most likely that the card is putting the load on the power
supply too high and will then refuse to start up. a good way to check this
is to disconnect every drive in the system and any fans (exluding the CPU
fan) and anything else which is not critical to starting the computer and
see what happens, if it comes to life then this is precisely what is
wrong...

If the system spins up (fans, drives ect) but no intelligent life is found,
get a hold of a multimeter, put the black probe on the case and check the
voltage of the orange wire (AT PSU's, don't know if it is still the same for
ATX, we want the "power good" wire), if there is no voltage then you have
problems.....

other than that i can't offer any advice...

Mike

"Quentin David Jones" <quentinj@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:4056a8b8$0$22530$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au...
> Greetings all,
>
> I am trying to setup a wireless system with a Access Point and a PCI
> wireless card.
>
> It all works fine on my test systems,
> but the PCI wireless card does not seem compatible with the client's old
> Pentium 3, 450MHz, i440BX chipset, Abit AB-BH6 mainboard, WinXP Prof.
> system - when installed, PC fails to even boot at all.
>
> I have tried an 11g 54MHz card (MSI PC54G) and an 11b 11MHz card (MSI
> PC11b2) - both fail in exactly the same way - the system fails to boot, or
> even give any beeps, or show any sign of life when the wireless card is
> installed in any slot.
>
> Does anyone know of any compatibility issues there?
>
> thanks,
> Quentin
>
>