Alright, excuse my bluntness, but this is really frustrating.
I have 2 computers. For the sake of clarity, lets call the newer one computer a, and the older one computer b.
My PCI wireless NIC stopped working in computer a after I moved my computers. (It was originally from computer b). So, I tried reseating it (multiple times) to no avail.
I have 2 pci slots in computer a; one has a wired NIC and the other has a Wireless NIC (this is the card I am having trouble with). To test whether the PCI slot that the Wireless NIC was in wasn't bad, I switched the Wireless and Wired NIC's slots. Again, the wired NIC worked fine and the Wireless NIC wasn't even detected (nothing in device manager). *note that the drivers shipped with the part was installed.
Then, since the Wireless NIC didn't work in computer a, I tried it in computer b to test whether the Wireless NIC was bad. It worked fine, so I left it in computer b.
So, I chalked it up to an oddity and bought a shiny new PCI Wireless NIC.
Its working the same way the other Wireless NIC did.. Computer a did not detect it no matter which slot it was in, even tho the Wired NIC was detected in every slot. (The new Wireless NIC also works in computer b aswell.)
So, either the motherboard in computer a doesn't like wireless NIC's (two of the cards I have tried work fine in computer b, but aren't even detected in computer a - wired NICs apparently work fine though) OR, my motherboard is with me.
I hope someone has the answer to my problem, and isn't scared away by the length of my post and the overly complicated way I explained it... I really just want to be able to use the internet again.
Thanks for reading,
NNJZ
(Formerly known as Image).