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I'm struggling with this.
I got a Belkin Wireless G card from a friend as a Christmas present...
All I really needed was a way to allow my daughter to have web access on her PC in her room, so I installed the card in her machine XP SP1A and it (apparently) works fine. (I can detect other peoples networks )..

So i bought another of the Belkins and added it to the main PC which has the ADSL Internet connection thru an Alcatel USB Crab modem and....
i install the software then shutdown install the card and reboot and it finishes the install and seems to work fine (This is all per Belkins instructions and I got the lasted drivers from Belkin web-site) ... It managed to detect my daughters machine upstairs at least...
Next time i reboot however it gets to the XP logon screen and when i try and logon the bloody thing reboots... every time.

I've moved the card to another PCI slot as i thought it was some weird conflict but to no avail. I can boot to safe mode but not to safe-mode with network as this gives me the same reboot problems
the card is the FD7001. its installed in a 2ghz athlon with 512mb ram and XP SP2.
Any assistance greatly appreciated.

Hi there beatledrive, welcome to PC Help Forum.

This must be frustrating for you The first thing I would like you to do is to look in your system event viewer and tell me if there are error messages in there that correspond with the times your PC has re-booted unexpectedly.

Right-click on the "My Computer" icon and select manage - you will see Event viewer in the list. Concentrate on the applications and systems lists.

Thanks for quick response.
There really is nothing obvious in the Event Viewer
The closest thing to the reboots is this

From IPNATHLP
The DNS proxy agent encountered an error while obtaining the local list of name-resolution servers. Some DNS or WINS servers may be inaccessible to clients on the local network. The data is the error code.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at blah blah blah

after that some info from
The Wireless Zero Configuration service was successfully sent a stop control.
and then i'm into what i assume is the reboot into safe mode info messages and a SaveDump diagnostic

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000d1 (0x00000010, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xf8085729). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini010506-01.dmp.

It's worth doing a system restore to before you installed the card - change the pci slot again and re-install the drivers. Also did the installation require that you install proprietary software to "manage" the Belkin card?

Thanks, but I've already tried that, and I'm back at the pre-install restore point for the second (or is it 3rd) time.
I've also tried disabling the Display IRQ in the BIOS as it was sharing with the network adapter, but with the same results.. I suppose the card COULD be faulty.
So i'm going to swap it into my daughters and try her one in here.
But thats for tomorrow...
Thanks for your help.
I'll let you know how i get on tomorrow evening.

hehe - that was going to be my next suggestion...see you tomorrow.