Swapping Wireless PCI Cards

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Hi

I have two Netgear PCI Cards
they are identical they are both on different machines

I really want to swap them around place for place
Im thinking of turning both PCs off and then switching them around

Will this be okay to do?

will the other pc just think its the same card as be4?
or should I unistall and go the long way around!?
 
err, I'm confused.

Two "identical" cards and you wan't to swap them over ... why?

In this case I would play safe ... uninstall - reinstall :)
 
because one of them has a loose airiel
and the other one is perfect

the loose one drops signal i wanta see if the good one wil make the signal better for that pc.

well play safe it is then unless some1 has tried this be4...
 
If your talking about whether you need to uninstall/re-install - you could always just try it first without and if it don't work, then do it.
 
thanks guys

no its not fixable :(
it comes off and dont go back on properly

I will try to directly replace without unistalling/reinstalling
see how this goes and act upon it

im sure itll be alrite because they are identical only thing i can think of is the mac address!
but this I dont think will affect my performance!
psd99
 
The only reason you should need to reinstall drivers is if you put card backinto wrong PCI slot. Unless windows picks up that its a different MAC addy maybe then aswell
 
If you place card into a different slot windows will detect it and want to designate it a different IRQ. In the process it will need the drivers to be reinstalled.
 
rite I think I got it

do u mean:

so on first pc the card is in say pci number 2
and on second pc say the card is on pci slot number 3

now if i directly replaced one with the other this would mean i need to resintall the drivers for it?


is this what u mean?

im very sure that the pci slots do not match up on each pc for the wireless card!:(
 
psd99 said:
rite I think I got it

do u mean:

so on first pc the card is in say pci number 2
and on second pc say the card is on pci slot number 3

now if i directly replaced one with the other this would mean i need to resintall the drivers for it?


is this what u mean?

im very sure that the pci slots do not match up on each pc for the wireless card!:(
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I don't think he does mean that, he's saying if the card was in slot 1 on the PC and you then put it in slot 2 on the SAME PC, then the IRQ would change, and you would need to install drivers - it is irrelevant what slot it was in on the other PC, just put the new card in the same slot as the old one.

Why not just try it out of interest?, it would be good to know for future reference - your not going to damage anything, if it don't work, then just re-install the drivers.

You can be our Official Tester :D
 
well i swapped em

didnt need to uninstall/resintall on either machine
that is the good news

bad news i dont think there is much improvement on my wireless network


i have a linksys wag54g wireless router one pc is connected directly to this using cable
other pc has wireless card to get onto the network
this is where the problem is well SO FAR....

signal is good or v good
but then it drops and i get the 'no network coverage' message!

but ill see how this wireless card does over time in pc2
ive noticed this much so far
if i have em both connected wirelessly thats where the problems start!
thanks for your help

for future redference if the hardware is exactly the same
no need to unistall or resintall drivers
lesson learnt with ease!
 
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