aka Keith
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| posted on 14/1/09 at 10:40 AM |
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Issues with Wireless connectitivty and XP
My home laptop running XP keeps losing the Wireless icon, in network connections.
I have downloaded the most recent driver, which has not resolved it. Believe it or not, somedays the icon is there and others days it is not.
I can find the driver in the system manager and I get a code 12 error in its properties. (IIRC cannot find enough ree resources or something like
that).
I have tried with no success the tech help line from the manufaturers (no success in that when I can get through no one replies to my emails). And
being a bit of a technophobe, I have looked up the issue on Micorsoft sites, followed there advice as best as I could, but have not yet been able to
fix it.
Has anyone got any ideas as to how to get this issue go away?
cheers
Craig
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ReMan
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| posted on 14/1/09 at 11:12 AM |
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Is it a HP 6000 series?
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aka Keith
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| posted on 14/1/09 at 11:48 AM |
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Reman,
no it is an Asus EEE top. (which is in effect desktop without the tower ie IMAC design type thing)
Cheers
Craig
[Edited on 14/1/09 by aka Keith]
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BenB
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| posted on 14/1/09 at 11:54 AM |
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Microsoft say
Code 12
This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on
this system. (Code 12)
Cause
This error can occur if two devices that are installed on your computer have been assigned the same I/O ports, the same interrupt, or the same Direct
Memory Access channel (either by the BIOS, the operating system, or both). This error message can also appear if the BIOS did not allocate enough
resources to the device.
Recommended resolution
You can use the Troubleshooting Wizard in Device Manager to determine where the conflict is, and then disable the conflicting device.
Disable the conflicting device
1. On the device Properties dialog box, click the General tab.
2. Click Troubleshoot to start the Troubleshooting Wizard. The wizard asks you some simple questions and provides a solution to your problem based
on the answers that you provide.
3. Follow the resolution steps provided by the wizard to resolve the problem.
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aka Keith
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| posted on 14/1/09 at 01:25 PM |
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BenB, I have tried that. I did not find it very intuative and it did not reslove it. It is possble that I did not answer all the questions correctly
(but as a simpleton, I went with what I knew).
Cheers
Craig
quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Microsoft say
Code 12
This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on
this system. (Code 12)
Cause
This error can occur if two devices that are installed on your computer have been assigned the same I/O ports, the same interrupt, or the same Direct
Memory Access channel (either by the BIOS, the operating system, or both). This error message can also appear if the BIOS did not allocate enough
resources to the device.
Recommended resolution
You can use the Troubleshooting Wizard in Device Manager to determine where the conflict is, and then disable the conflicting device.
Disable the conflicting device
1. On the device Properties dialog box, click the General tab.
2. Click Troubleshoot to start the Troubleshooting Wizard. The wizard asks you some simple questions and provides a solution to your problem based
on the answers that you provide.
3. Follow the resolution steps provided by the wizard to resolve the problem.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 16/1/09 at 12:12 PM |
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Have you load any extra fonts ? try reducing the number of fonts to minimum.
Switch off any desktop effects.
Disable anything that is running in the system tray.
Reduce te number of Icons on the desktop to thise you actually need.
When I first heard that Xp was being offered on these machines I had my doubts.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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aka Keith
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| posted on 16/1/09 at 02:15 PM |
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Britishtrident,
thanks for the reply. Showing my ignorance here, but how so I shut of things running in my system tray?
cheers
Craig
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Have you load any extra fonts ? try reducing the number of fonts to minimum.
Switch off any desktop effects.
Disable anything that is running in the system tray.
Reduce te number of Icons on the desktop to thise you actually need.
When I first heard that Xp was being offered on these machines I had my doubts.
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