My little bro just moved back home from school. I got a wireless Linksys router WRT54G. My computer is hardwired to it, as is my XBOX 360. Both work great. I installed my old wireless PCI card into his computer (Netgear card). The wireless card works and can see our network, but not connect. I click to connect, it acts like it is sending a signal with a progress bar, and then the progress bar closes. However, I can't access the internet.

I am using WEP encryption. When I enter in the key, it still can't connect. I right click on the wireless connection, it has the wrong key in it.

Any ideas?

 

check the wireless settings on your router see if its blocking it. did you install the correct drivers?

 

check joor im

 

Installed the correct drivers. Also, I get the blue screen of death when I try and open the Netgear wireless utility, but not when I try to use XP to configure the connection. I would assume there's a problem with the Netgear software then.

 

reformat

 

What's the blue screen error

 

balls in your mouth

 

Bluescreen = BAD_POOL_HEADER

Starting in safe mode w/networking now.

 

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is usually a good thing. However, it's not without it's problems. Most notably is it's crashing of more 'sloppily' written drivers. If you're now experiencing the BAD_POOL_HEADER Blue Screen Of Death on bootup and have a NetGear wireless network card in your machine, then remove it. More than likely this will allow you to boot. I've also heard of some LinkSys wireless network cards causing this same error as well. As of the writing of this article, there are no new drivers from either LinkSys or NetGear. I've also been unable to find any support on their site about the issue. If your NetGear card uses the Atheros chipset, then you may be able to use those drivers to get back up and running.

 

disable wep on the router and see if it connect. if it does, set up the wep again and make sure it matches on the pc.