Graphic card and wireless card problems?!!?!??!?

Hi All

ive just bought a (second hand) graphics card (NVIDIA 5200FX)

and about a month ago i bought a ASUS WL-138G V2 wireless lan card.

ive had the wireless card working great for the past month in the pci slot.
I was sick of onboard graphics. so yesterday i put in my recentley bought graphics card (AGP).
i started up the computer and was amazed with what the graphics card had done with my screen. so the first thing i did was try going on the internet, but soon relized that my wireless card wasnt picking up my modem.
i tryed installing the drivers again but that didnt help. soon enough i was taking out my graphics card and testing my internet connection. and to my suprise it was working fine (using onboard graphics). so i put my graphics card back in to see if it had somehow fixed itself, but got the same results.

please someone tell me what i have done wrong.

and im running Windows XP

Cheers

Definately only needed one post for this problem.

My best guess is that its a power issue. Adding the video card has sucked all the juice that your power supply can give, and the wireless radio can no longer be powered... But I didn't think that a wifi pci card could take up that much to not work... and if power was insufficient over all, then I would expect the video card to not work either.

in any case. go into the device manager (right click my computer, choose properties, hardware tab, device manager) ... when your new video card is installed, are there any little yellow exclaimation points on your wireless card? or perhaps a red X? check it out, look at the properties of the device and see if there are any strange status messages.

Do you know how powerful your power supply is by any chance? Have you tried moving the wireless card to a different PCI slot on the motherboard? Perhaps you're getting some kind of interference being too close to the video card?

hey thanks

i have a 350w PSU running a intel celeron 2.8GHz 768mb ram and a cd writer. nothing huge, so woundnt think its a power problem

ive tried moving the wireless card to another PCI slot but its still the same. and there are no problems in the device manager.

dont think i mentiond this in my previous post but i can go into the windows wireless maneger and "refresh the network list" but no modems turn up.

could very well be an interference between the two.

thanks again

well, 350watts isn't exactly a reccommended wattage for a high end video card. and if you bought that AGP card used, it might be a pretty power hungry old card... check around to see what the power consumption on your 5200FX is and do some simple calculation... alternatively, take anything else out of the system that you can that eats up power... cd rom drives.. extra HDDS... usb powered components... take them all out (or just unplug temporarily) and see if your wifi card works then....