wireless nic vs. video

[cooter]

i installed a 3com officeconnect wireless 11g pci card in an old (6+ years) compaq pc. the video card is an ati radeon (rage theatre chipset). when the nic is installed, i get no video signal. video is fine when i take the nic out. anybody have any ideas about how to get around this conflict. i'm willing to buy a different video card if that's the answer but i'm reluctant until i'm sure that that will solve the problem. thanks.

[kwebb]

Probably an IRQ or address issue. Not a problem for this forum but since you've already posted, what OS are you running?

[Midknyte]

Originally posted by kwebb
Probably an IRQ or address issue.

Yup.

did you try putting the nic into a pci different slot?

[cooter]

thank you. what range can i use if i have to shift things around?

[Midknyte]

don't touch anything. the motherboard should be able to autodetect the card.

[kwebb]

Okee dokee. One more time. What OS are you running? Operating system.

[cooter]

hi, i'm running w98. i tried changing a couple of memory range settings to no avail, although i must say that i was limited with respect to what i could change. even with the changes, video still works fine but not when the nic is in. i tried switching to the vanilla video driver too. these compaqs are a nightmare. it's not even apparent how to get into the bios from post. i tried everything i know. (sadly i resorted to trying every key at startup). i reckon i'm gonna try a different video card. you got any other ideas?

[cooter]

it's a strange arrangement in this pc. it was built in Singapore. there are 3 pci lots located between two, er, **** i can't remember what these other slots are called but they are older than pci. there is no agp slot in this machine. i tried the video card in all the pci slots but there is no way to separate the video and nic with something else, like for example the parallel port card. i put the video card on both ends and the middle to no avail. i can't get into the bios to change the video before windows starts up. i hate compaqs.

[zybch]

With Compaq Pcs, while the compaq logo is still displayed, you'll see a small cursor flashing at the top right corner of the screen. Press F10 while its flashing ans you will then be taken to the bios.

Compaqs are just bleaugh :mad:
In fact, most brand name PCs are. HP, IBM, Dell, Gateway etc etc

[cooter]

Thank you very much indeed.