3Com wireless nic... no good

[dakota81]

I guess this is more of a warning than anything else; I just got some new wireless equipment today & installed a 3Com 3CRDAG675, and upon reboot when loading on startup 3Com's lan manager software, WinXP on my system crashes hard; hard enough screw up the OS so it cannot even attempt to boot anymore.

So I'm pissed off, but gotta get WinXP re-installed, which I do, and with the 3Com card still inside my computer, once WinXP is initially loaded I connect to the internet & start searching for updates. Then a nice little window pops up (I forget what message it said), but in effect some component of the OS failed & the system will shut itself down in one minute. Alright, shut down the machine, and remove the 3Com card. Problem doesn't resurface as you see I'm typing here without any faults.

Is this maybe a common fault with 3Com cards, or did I just get one bad lemon? Anyone else have experience with 3Com wireless cards?

 

[hoffdog]

I have had nothing but problems with 3com cards in the past. But those were mostly with NT machines we had. Thank god MS stopped supporting NT now I have a complete 2000 and XP network to take care of. But in the future I would go with linksys, for ethernet and wireless, as I have yet to find any faults with their cards. Just a suggestion cause 3com has left a sour taste in mouth for years.

 

[dakota81]

3Com cards have always been superb for me with their 10/100 nics, but for some reason this wireless card seems like trouble. After a couple chkdsk scans & a couple reboots I was atleast able to salvage all the files from the original partition, so the damage isn't all too bad, but it still leaves a very bad image in your mind; and I don't have the time right now to play around and test different products, because I just cannot have my system go down.