need help with laptop

well, i have a compaq laptop, and lately when i try to get onto the internet it dousnt let me on, well one day i tried turning it on(i know nothing about comps) and i forgot to put the card in, the internet came on for about 1 minute and then turned off again. so i tried removing and putting back in my wireless card and the screen turn blue saying *error not equal* or something like that, im on my desktop right now, can anyone help me with this? i can follow all instructions i just want internet on i tback lol.

thanks,
jamien93

 

nobody?i rly do need hlp

 

You wait for five minutes and expect a response?

 

try putting the card in and then turning off the laptop and turning back on

 

also what browser are you using?

 

Is it a wireless card that fit in the express PCI? or is an USB card?, what kind of card is it?

 

If you put the card back in and it was not USB per say you could hav efried the card, USB is Hotswapable to a degree, PCMCIA is deff not

 

I have removed my PCMCIA wifi card and reinserted it hundreds of times . It's perfectly safe. Hence why a PCMCIA device will show up in the "Safely Remove Hardware" dialog.

 

I agree with Greg, however windows doesn't like we remove accessories while they are in use. With USB drives for example you have to select the USB products icon so you can get the ok to safely remove it, but I have removed flash drives before w/e doing the above and haven't gotten problems, but is recommendable to follow the appropriate procedure..

 

PCMCIA cards are, at least according to the promulgated standard as discussed here for example, hot-swappable, as are express cards, according to the expresscard industry organization; however, you might want to google on your particular model and the term "hot swap" to see if there were any implementation issues the manufacturer had viz the hot-swap/plug-n-play feature of the card.