Upgraded motherboard & cpu, now wireless card won't detect networks

[leunames]

Posted this in the networking forum...but not sure if this is a better place for it:

I'm hoping you guys can help...

I upgraded my mobo, cpu, ram and video card today. I kept my HDD, optical drives, and my wireless adapter (Edimax EW-7128g)

In my zeal to install my new components I had forgotten to uninstall the drivers of the edimax, which I was going to keep, and my old ATI radeon, which I was replacing.

After installing the new components, every thing started up fine, except the edimax wireless adapter would refuse to connect, or even detect any wireless networks. I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers countless times, swapped the wireless card around in the different pci slots, but still came up with the same problem.

I noticed that when I checked the network adapters in control panel, it would keep calling the Edimax "wireless adapter (2)" or "wireless adapter (3)" depending on which pci slot I put it in. I would try renaming it to simply "wireless adapter" but it would state that an adapter by that name already exists. I'm guessing this is some holdover from being connected to the old motherboard.

In short, new mobo recognizes the card, drivers are installed, but windows keeps telling me there's an error with the drivers, and every time I try and search for wireless connections, it won't even search...it will just say "no connections available." Was this whole issue precipitated by forgetting to uninstall the drivers and the card itself before upgrading my mobo?

Old system (everything worked)
AMD Athlon X2 64 3600+ cpu
Biostar TF570 SLI mobo
Hitachi 250GB HDD
Corsair DDR2 2GB ram
Sapphire Radeon X1950pro 256mb
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
Edimax Ralink EW-7128g wireless card

New system (wireless card not detecting networks, stays disabled in network adapter view, while device manager shows as enabled)
AMD Phenom II 3.1GHz cpu
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 mobo
Hitachi 250GB HDD
Mushkin DDR3 4GB ram
XFX Radeon 5670HD 1gb
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Edimax Ralink EW-7128g wireless card

Any advice???
Do I need to put back my old rig in, uninstall the drivers from there, and then put my new components back and install again?

Help? Thanks.

 

[ixelion]

could this be the cause?

(Note 3) The PCIEX1_1 and PCIEX1_2 slots share bandwidth with the PCIEX4 slot. When PCIEX4 slot is populated with a x4 card, the PCIEX1_1 and PCIEX1_2 slots become unavailable.

If you have a 4x card plugged into PCIE4 and your wifi card plaugged into 1 or 2, then the card wont work (it doesn't explain why windows would see it though)

 

[leunames]

could this be the cause?



If you have a 4x card plugged into PCIE4 and your wifi card plaugged into 1 or 2, then the card wont work (it doesn't explain why windows would see it though)

Aren't those PCI express slots though (e.g., for videocards)? This wireless card is going in a regular old pci slot.

 

[MadScientist]

Give it one more try. In Control Panel - Programs and Features uninstall the drivers and utility. In Control panel - Device Manager under Network Adapters, if the wireless card is still there, right click on it and Uninstall.

Reboot and try re-installing the latest Win 7 driver/utility from here:

http://www.edimax.us/html/english/frames/b-download.htm

If it's possible just install the driver and use the Windows utility.