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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Network and WIreless Adapters => DWA-542 => Topic started by: dpelement on May 04, 2009, 05:22:58 PM
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Hi, I just bought my DWA-542 card the other day.
I've had so much trouble with this card and I don't understand what the problem is or how to fix it.
The problem is straight up I can't get the card to work.
I used to have vista when I first tried and it worked one time, rebooted didn't work again.
I was sick of vista anyway so I formatted my HD and installed XP, I downloaded the XP drivers and even tried using the CD that came with I get the same things everytime:
(http://i42.tinypic.com/293yuc0.jpg)
I get that when I run the CD installer, or it tells me it can't find the adapter.
When I try and use the .inf files for XP I get this: or the device cannot start
(http://i39.tinypic.com/2yovdjr.jpg)
I've tried: moving the card to a different PCI slot, taking it out and putting it back in.
Once I think it's going to work when it sometimes gets through the setup I get this at 99%:
(http://i39.tinypic.com/fkbdkl.jpg)
Help anyoneeee? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Download the updated drivers from the support site and install with those.
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This is what happens:
http://screencastle.com/watch/8124c8dfc60a972e12d4b82564cfea28 (http://screencastle.com/watch/8124c8dfc60a972e12d4b82564cfea28)
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You said you reformatted to XP.. what Service Pack are you running?
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This is service pack 3.
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What about any firewalls or Anti-virus softwares?
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Nope, no firewalls or anti-virus software.
Pretty much I ruled out everything, I installed 3 different operating systems and tried all PCI slots, I think its a bad card.
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kinda seems that way :-\
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Good news is since you said you just purchased it you should be able to return/exchange it to point of purchase.