USR2216 WiFi card causes Win XP to crash - newbie need help!

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless (More info?)

I bought a US Robotics USR2216 22 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter on EBay. When I
installed it on a rather elderly PII 350MHz PC it caused the blue screen of
death to appear - error message "memory parity error". My RAM is fine.

I've tried it in a different PCI slot and have used the newest drivers from
the manufacturers' website but the same thing happens & Windows will not run
at all if it is installed.

Is this likely to be due to a hardware conflict, dodgy drivers or is the
card a dud?

Thanks a lot.

 

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I'm going to reply to my own posting cos I solved it! There was a conflict
with my sound card (Yamaha) and ethernet card. Disabling them in Device
Manager solved the problem. Hope this helps someone else.

"David Leslie" <dwleslie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I bought a US Robotics USR2216 22 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter on EBay. When I
>installed it on a rather elderly PII 350MHz PC it caused the blue screen of
>death to appear - error message "memory parity error". My RAM is fine.
>
> I've tried it in a different PCI slot and have used the newest drivers
> from the manufacturers' website but the same thing happens & Windows will
> not run at all if it is installed.
>
> Is this likely to be due to a hardware conflict, dodgy drivers or is the
> card a dud?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>

 

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What is the min requirements for this cards use? Look at the documentation,
It might be to slow of a system.


"David Leslie" <dwleslie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:mAsGd.39$s45.30@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
>I bought a US Robotics USR2216 22 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter on EBay. When I
>installed it on a rather elderly PII 350MHz PC it caused the blue screen of
>death to appear - error message "memory parity error". My RAM is fine.
>
> I've tried it in a different PCI slot and have used the newest drivers
> from the manufacturers' website but the same thing happens & Windows will
> not run at all if it is installed.
>
> Is this likely to be due to a hardware conflict, dodgy drivers or is the
> card a dud?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>

 

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nope, the requirements are for a 100MHz processor. It works fine with a
different sound card installed.

"Robert Jacobs" <rjacobs0spamfree@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> What is the min requirements for this cards use? Look at the
> documentation, It might be to slow of a system.
>
>
> "David Leslie" <dwleslie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:mAsGd.39$s45.30@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
>>I bought a US Robotics USR2216 22 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter on EBay. When
>>I installed it on a rather elderly PII 350MHz PC it caused the blue screen
>>of death to appear - error message "memory parity error". My RAM is fine.
>>
>> I've tried it in a different PCI slot and have used the newest drivers
>> from the manufacturers' website but the same thing happens & Windows will
>> not run at all if it is installed.
>>
>> Is this likely to be due to a hardware conflict, dodgy drivers or is the
>> card a dud?
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>
>