Wireless Network card

ChrisW88

ChrisW88

ChrisW88

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Hi guys, ive just made my 1st PC about a week ago. The PC runs fine with windows 7 64 bit.

Specs:

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.40GHz (Socket AM3)

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 10666C8 (1333MHz) Dual-Channel (CMX4GX3M2A1333C8)

Coolermaster HAF 922 Case with Window - Black

Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard

Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXUK)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS)

OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)

So i got these parts expecting my wireless network card to work with this PC.
I install the wireless card and turn my pc on and the card wasnt even recognised in the system, couldnt pick up any signals, couldnt even recognise that the card was there in the first place???!!

Any ideas as to how i can get it to work and i have no idea what the wireless card is called.

Thanks
 
can you find the spec for the old pc?

Im assuming you have just inserted the card and not installed any drivers. Can you see it in device manager?
 
I cant find the specs for the old comp no sorry.

I inserted the card, didnt install any drivers but it wasnt showing up in the device manager at all, it just crashed everytime i tried to access the device manager, so i took it out straight away.
 
Personally i use Linksys Powerline adaptors. Any of the wireless cards sold at OcUk should be fine (excluding the PCMCIA adaptor). It will just depend on the speed you want, if you do a lot of pc to pc copying on your network go for a faster card.
 
It'll also depend what you have at the other end - if you only have an 802.11g router you won't gain anything (other than some future proofing) from buying an 802.11n card and similarly there are some proprietary extensions (such as Netgear's *GT hardware which does 108Mbps over 802.11g).
 
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