GJW
Flashlight Enthusiast
So my wife brings me her laptop and tells me that it won't boot.
It gets to the WinXP splash screen and then the little animated progress bar just sits there.
I try going to safe mode and I get the same thing.
Then I notice that her wireless network card has been bent -- the external part is bent down at about a 30-degree angle.
I pull the card out and it boots just fine.
I put a spare WiFi card in and she's back in business.
I do a defrag -- I update her virus and spyware software and she's back to Craigslist.
That night she closes the lid and it refuses to hibernate.
It just sits there with the fan still going so I do a hard power down via the power button.
The next day the laptop won't boot again.
Again, I pull out the WiFi card (the replacement card -- not the bent original) and it boots just fine.
I put the replacement card in my laptop and it locks up my machine.
Two bad cards so close together?
Could the original bending of the card have done some damage to her slot and its now a card killer?
Any other ideas?
:sweat:
It gets to the WinXP splash screen and then the little animated progress bar just sits there.
I try going to safe mode and I get the same thing.
Then I notice that her wireless network card has been bent -- the external part is bent down at about a 30-degree angle.
I pull the card out and it boots just fine.
I put a spare WiFi card in and she's back in business.
I do a defrag -- I update her virus and spyware software and she's back to Craigslist.
That night she closes the lid and it refuses to hibernate.
It just sits there with the fan still going so I do a hard power down via the power button.
The next day the laptop won't boot again.
Again, I pull out the WiFi card (the replacement card -- not the bent original) and it boots just fine.
I put the replacement card in my laptop and it locks up my machine.
Two bad cards so close together?
Could the original bending of the card have done some damage to her slot and its now a card killer?
Any other ideas?
:sweat:
