Windows 7 Wireless Card Issue(s)

[aplefka]

Finally upgraded to Win7 the other day and I must say it has been a complete and total nightmare so far. I'm running Home Premium 64-bit and I've got a Linksys WMP54GS v1.1 wireless card. For the first day and a half the internet worked fine, then after a reboot suddenly the card would no longer function properly.

Edit: Original issue resolved. New issue is the Code 12 device error: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Press F8 when booting Windows, and select "Disable Driver Signing Enforcement". Then you can load unsigned drivers in 64-bit Win7. You have to do this at every boot, however, because Microsoft took away the option to specify this permanently in the boot config.

 

[aplefka]

Thanks a lot! Through my hours of Googling only once did F8 come into a thread but I didn't understand the context. Annoying, but it'll work for now until I can afford a new card.

Edit: Now I have a different problem. Code 12: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system.

What does that even mean? Nothing changed about the hardware of my computer except switching a 250gb hdd for a 1tb and the operating system.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Not enough free hardware resources is a problem. Have you updated your BIOS to the newest? After that, if that doesn't fix it, try disabling various unused hardware in your system, either in the BIOS (try that first), or in Windows (try that second).

If nothing else, try clearing CMOS and/or clearing the ESCD in the BIOS. That might result in the re-balancing of PnP resources, and it might just be able to fit the card in.

 

[aplefka]

Moved it from my second PCI slot to my first and that somehow fixed it, for now at least.

Thanks for the help.