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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

Title: Help, please.
Post by: dpelement on May 04, 2009, 05:22:58 PM

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?  ??? ??? ??? ??? ???

Title: Re: Help, please.
Post by: Lycan on May 05, 2009, 09:54:46 AM

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

Title: Re: Help, please.
Post by: dpelement on May 05, 2009, 12:59:09 PM

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

Title: Re: Help, please.
Post by: arod on May 05, 2009, 01:55:41 PM

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

Title: Re: Help, please.
Post by: dpelement on May 05, 2009, 01:59:15 PM

This is service pack 3.

Title: Re: Help, please.
Post by: arod on May 06, 2009, 10:06:46 AM

What about any firewalls or Anti-virus softwares?

Title: Re: Help, please.
Post by: dpelement on May 06, 2009, 02:17:36 PM

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.

Title: Re: Help, please.
Post by: Lycan on May 07, 2009, 08:46:24 AM

kinda seems that way  :-\

Title: Re: Help, please.
Post by: arod on May 07, 2009, 08:58:22 AM

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