Wireless Card Shuts Down Computer

At college, I use a cable to connect my laptop to the internet. When I came
home to the wireless internet, my cardwould connect, but be very unstable,
and disconnect more and more often. Finally it wouldn't connect at all, so I
went through the kit and caboodle to get it to work: disable/renable, repair,
change configurations and settings, update driver, uninstall/reinstall driver
and software, etc.
During the second reinstall attempt, the computer couldn't make the
connection between the "new" hardware and the software that I'd just
installed. The configuration utility for the card would only blink open
before closing again, if it opened at all. Somehow whenever I removed the
card, my computer would instantly shut down and restart, every time.
I recently bought a new wireless card, which works perfectly well. I am
still having problems with the other one. Currently, the old card will get to
the point where it is searching for networks, and the configuration utility
will open most of the time, but before it connects (and in all but one case,
before it finds the network), the computer will freeze completely, and either
shut down within 10 seconds, or shut down when I remove the card. If I don't
remove the card and it is still in the computer during restart, it will begin
an infinite loop of restarting until I remove the card.
I cannot find any viruses, adware, or spyware on my computer.
What might cause this to happen?

"Diamontina Cocktail" wrote:

>
> "CKBean" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:B8EB7153-DE8D-4E6C-B247-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > At college, I use a cable to connect my laptop to the internet. When I
> > came
> > home to the wireless internet, my cardwould connect, but be very unstable,
> > and disconnect more and more often. Finally it wouldn't connect at all, so
> > I
> > went through the kit and caboodle to get it to work: disable/renable,
> > repair,
> > change configurations and settings, update driver, uninstall/reinstall
> > driver
> > and software, etc.
> > During the second reinstall attempt, the computer couldn't make the
> > connection between the "new" hardware and the software that I'd just
> > installed. The configuration utility for the card would only blink open
> > before closing again, if it opened at all. Somehow whenever I removed the
> > card, my computer would instantly shut down and restart, every time.
> > I recently bought a new wireless card, which works perfectly well. I am
> > still having problems with the other one. Currently, the old card will get
> > to
> > the point where it is searching for networks, and the configuration
> > utility
> > will open most of the time, but before it connects (and in all but one
> > case,
> > before it finds the network), the computer will freeze completely, and
> > either
> > shut down within 10 seconds, or shut down when I remove the card. If I
> > don't
> > remove the card and it is still in the computer during restart, it will
> > begin
> > an infinite loop of restarting until I remove the card.
> > I cannot find any viruses, adware, or spyware on my computer.
> > What might cause this to happen?
>
> Assuming you don't have a third party firewall interfering (Zone Alarm,
> Snortons) then you sound like the old one is faulty. It may be faulty simply
> due to a driver stuffup and it may be that it is physically dying. I would
> try downloading a driver for it off the net and installing it, first.
>
> One thing to remember is that a wireless unit is a transceiver. You can get
> standing wave reflection from all sorts of things back into the unit itself.
> Over time and with enough power, this kills the unit and it doesn't go down
> all at once. It goes down a bit at a time. This *MAY* be happening to your
> unit. Try the driver reinstall first.
>
>
That's quite likely. It's a fairly old card. Do you have any thoughts about
why it's shutting down my computer?