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Article #751Re: Wireless PCI on Pentium3, 440Bx ?
From: Travis Read
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:57
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:57
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I may be way off but I'd check to see if your PCI card needs a PCI 2.1 compliant PCI bus. I ran into trouble with an old INTEL BX mobo where by my wireless card didn't work either. Turns out the PCI bus wasn't 2.1 compliant and hence didn't supply enough power to make the PCI card work. I ended up using a different PC T "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 > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104fd2,7042c30eb970a0ef X-Google-Attributes: gid104fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 105e39,7042c30eb970a0ef X-Google-Attributes: gid105e39,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-16 02:56:12 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!zeus.visi.com!priapus.visi.com!orange.octanews.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.octanews.net!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.xtra.co.nz!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!freenews.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail From: "Travis Read" <antispam-ics@bspark.com.au> Newsgroups: alt.internet.wireless,iinet.general References: <4056a8b8$0$22530$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au> Subject: Re: Wireless PCI on Pentium3, 440Bx ? Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:57:06 +0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4056dcdc$0$22523$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.59.110.134 X-Trace: 1079434460 freenews.iinet.net.au 22523 203.59.110.134