Perhaps, but I don't see any other examples of odd behavior that might indicate that.
Dodgy motherboard (something on one of the buses including the USB interface). Are there any other devices missing?
Not that I can tell. She doesn't use a ton of devices, though, so that might be masking it.
It is!
Yeah, dodgy motherboard. Try disabling the onboard network adapter, then putting in the card.
But I can't disable the card because according to the computer, it doesn't exist!
To avoid different issues overlap and create more confusion: are you positive the adapter PCI version is compatible with the MB PCI supported versions? How old is the MB?
Hmm. I've been out of the PC hardware game for a while, but I wasn't aware of this. I would have expected (reasonably, I think) that a PCI Express card will work in a PCI Express slot. The computer isn't very old, just about 15 months (so of course, it's
just outside the warranty). I would think it would support a simple network card. If there had been a regular PCI slot available I would have used it (the cards are cheaper), but it only has 3 PCI Express 1x slots.
In any case, it would seem a MB issue to me as well.
I might agree with you guys, but for this: so it stopped seeing the USB wireless NIC. Okay, but then why did the keyboard, plugged into the slot next to it, keep working? And the mouse too? I've had a computer with problems on the USB power side, but this seems different.
Very odd.
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