Wireless adapter problem

[PCNOOB]

So I ordererd a PCI wireless adapter along with my recent build. It's an Encore, and it got great reviews by many Newegg customers.

My system wouldn't recognize the thing even after I installed the driver. I even went to the website and downloaded the driver again just in case it had been updated and still no dice.

My PCI-E runs my graphics card just fine, and I even tried two PCI slots for the Encore, neither of which worked. This makes me think it's still a software issue.

Am I missing something? Any tips would be great.

[glc]

More likely a defective card. It's cheap, you get what you pay for. However, your PCI bus may be dead - does it recognize *any* PCI card?

[PCNOOB]

More likely a defective card. It's cheap, you get what you pay for. However, your PCI bus may be dead - does it recognize *any* PCI card?

Yeah yeah. I shopped for a while and people were impressed by this card, so I went for it. Whatever.

I did try it in two (out of three I think) PCI slots. Neither worked. I do know that my PCI-E is working w/ my video card, but I don't have any other PCI components to test with. What is the likely hood of 2 PCI slots being defective on an otherwise fully functional board?

*edit* Oh and woundn't I get some other indication if the part of the motherboard was damaged? Maybe from the MOBO drivers? Monitoring functions.....?

[glc]

I've seen boards where the legacy PCI slots are dead with no other problems. You are going to have to do one of 2 things - try your card in another computer or try a different PCI card of any type in your computer.

[PCNOOB]

I guess I'll have to test it somehow.

thanks.