PCI Card problem

i have a Compaq Presario 1501CL with one card slot. i purchased Netgear wireless card and the slot would recognize it for a second then not. i tested it with a different card and it would recognize it for a second then not. So i figured it needed drivers... The pci card slot is Texas Inst. PCI 1410 Cardbus controller so i found a driver on the net (pcmcia.inf) then it wanted pccard.vxd. i found one of those on the net also, but both seemed to be for old systems (win95 or so).

Can anyone help me out here... do i need to buy a new pci card slot?

 

What is the model of the Netgear wireless card? Every retail Netgear product I've ever seen came with a driver/software CD.

http://www.netgear.com/ is their main site. There's a product finder menu there from which you can select the model of the card you bought, and you should be able to download the correct drivers.

Hope this helps!

Regards,

dj

 

But he is saying that he tried 2 cards in that same slot and both did the same thing. I hate to tell you this but it sounds like you have a bad PCI slot. This is not un- common with compaq, HP, Gateway etc.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?lc=en&lang=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=95171&os=228

There is the link for your computer, update the bios and the intel chipset.