Wireless Card Drivers (Vista Ultimate!)

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Received my shiny DVD OEM Ultimate (64 bit) today and installed it on a separate HDD. The installation was not uneventful, blue screen of death straight after it was preparing my desktop for the 1st time. Anyway a reboot later and we are working, well most of it is.

The following features dont work:

- Help & Support - nothing happens when I click on this
- I have 2 'blank' icons (white) which dont do anything in quick launch
- I have no Wired/Wireless support icons in the networking centre (ipconfig shows all my wired controllers!)
- 'Access Denied' in networking - I cant change any of the settings although I am the Administrator account!

My belkin Pre-N F5D8000 PCI card is detected as some Ricoh rubbish and the belkin drivers dont work on vista.

My main problem is, should I reinstall vista as something has corrupted, is there a way of repairing this installation and does anyone have working Belkin drivers so I can connect to the internet through Vista for windows update??

Thanks
 
i'd probably try a reinstall, since its a clean image, it'll probably take less time than trying to figure out whats not working, what might be corrupt etc.

oh and pray it doesnt crash at the same point again! :)
 
Type_R said:
The installation was not uneventful, blue screen of death straight after it was preparing my desktop for the 1st time.
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Type_R said:
- Help & Support - nothing happens when I click on this
- I have 2 'blank' icons (white) which dont do anything in quick launch
- I have no Wired/Wireless support icons in the networking centre (ipconfig shows all my wired controllers!)
- 'Access Denied' in networking - I cant change any of the settings although I am the Administrator account!
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It seems asif the installed got FUBAR'd, personally i'd do a reinstall and if it corrupts at the same point i'd return it for a new copy, maybe your disk has been buggered.
 
Thanks for the help.

I'll be reinstalling tomorrow. Hopefully it wont crash again.

Still cant find any belkin drivers so connecting to the net might still be quite difficult :(
 
Personally, I'd remove the pci/wireless card and do a clean install without it; once every thing is running correctly, turn off, re-insert the card and restart the system and attempt a manual install of the card.
This may prevent Vista from installing the wrong "Ricoh?" drivers and causing system instability.
I've ran into similar problems before with pci/wireless cards in xp and always follow the above sequence for installation.
 
Borg22 said:
Personally, I'd remove the pci/wireless card and do a clean install without it; once every thing is running correctly, turn off, re-insert the card and restart the system and attempt a manual install of the card.
This may prevent Vista from installing the wrong "Ricoh?" drivers and causing system instability.
I've ran into similar problems before with pci/wireless cards in xp and always follow the above sequence for installation.
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Thanks, thats exactly what I had planned :)
 
Just reinstalled Vista X64. This time, took the Pre N Belkin out, installed (without the blue screen of death!) and then put in my old F5D7000 54G PCI card (broadcom chipset). It detected and installed the card hassle free and now I am connected and updating! Awesome! :)
 
Type_R said:
Just reinstalled Vista X64. This time, took the Pre N Belkin out, installed (without the blue screen of death!) and then put in my old F5D7000 54G PCI card (broadcom chipset). It detected and installed the card hassle free and now I am connected and updating! Awesome! :)
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Now, if I could just get vista to see my network card. My wlan card's creator is, not a company that supports customers.
 
You could always try the windows xp 64 bit drivers? Not sure if it would work though? My Realtek 8180L driver that got installed (the mS one) was a load of pony and didn't have WPA, so i installed the Windows XP driver manually and then i could connect to my Wifi network. :) This was on a 32bit version though.
 
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