Wireless card stopped working with 4Gb installed

[Salsa]

I have a particuarly irritating problem which recently came about when upgrading from 2 to 4 Gb of ram.

Rig in sig and running a Netgear WG311v2 vista x86. It worked fine with 2Gb ram for months and seeing as my ram arrived before my new OS i decided to put it in anyway. Powered down popped in 2Gb more geil and rebooted.

Wireless card registers in device manager but refuses to even recognise any of the 4 wireless networks nearby. Have checked for firmware updates as well as driver updates for both my PCI card and Mobo.

Nothing seems to work Is it a netgear problem or Motherboard? Any suggestions welcome.

 

[RVF]

Have you checked it still works with 2gig installed?

You may have borked it when installing the RAM or it may be pure coincidence that it died when you upgraded.

 

[Werewolf]

if you're using 32bit os it could be the os limitations are causing the problem.
IIRC 32bit Windows can only see 4gb of memory and pci devices appear as memory for access purposes or something like that, hence if you've got xp 32bit or vista 32bit and 4gb of ram installed it can cause either some of the ram to not be usable, or problems with devices from what i've heard.

/is still only using 1gb of ram

 

[radderfire]

I would guess it's a Vista issue. Maybe some area of memory that needs to be addressed by the wireless card becomes unavailable when you add the extra memory. I would ask the wireless card manufacturers if this could be the case.

Out of interest, have you tried removing the extra 2GB, and in which case does the wireless card start working again?

Rgds

Radderfire

 

[Salsa]

Confirmed that it will work with 2Gb installed but not with 4Gb. Must be a limitation with the 32bit OS. Guess i need to wait a few days to get my new OS and try again.

Dont think my adapter is supported by x64 anyway so in all likelyhood i will need to purchase another one.

Any ideas on a decent priced wireless adapter that will work with x64 vista?