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[dpelement]

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:



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




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%:



Help anyoneeee? 

[Lycan]

Download the updated drivers from the support site and install with those.

[dpelement]

This is what happens:
http://screencastle.com/watch/8124c8dfc60a972e12d4b82564cfea28

[arod]

You said you reformatted to XP.. what Service Pack are you running?

[dpelement]

This is service pack 3.

[arod]

What about any firewalls or Anti-virus softwares?

[dpelement]

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.

[Lycan]

kinda seems that way 

[arod]

Good news is since you said you just purchased it you should be able to return/exchange it to point of purchase.