Dead Airport card ? (or just...sleeping)?

MacBook Pro 2.2g purchased off of eBay at Christmas time. Airport card "appears" present but turned off, but won't turn on. Shows up as existing in menu bar (outline of signal field) vs no icon and Profiler says the card's there, but not turned on. In network pref pane - clicking on turn on button doesn't do anything. Hasn't worked since purchasing - seller insists it worked for him and I don't feel like he's trying to hose me, just not sure what problem is.
Suggestions for determining if card is the problem or software glitch?
If it's the card, what replacement card is correct for this model.
Running 10.5.8

changing locations was the trick

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Hello, hope someone can help.
I have been using AirPort Express for about 2 years, I installed my own AirPort card in my iMac G5 1.8GHz. Last week I upgraded to Leopard (this maybe irrelevant) and today my iMac is seeing no base stations. I have a Windows XP laptop on the same network which is running fine on the AirPort Express base station (hence this post). For good measure I rebooted the router (Netgear) attached to the AirPort Express to no avail. System Profiler still acknowledges that a card is present, and AirPort Utility says that it is unable to find any base stations. Though it doesn't say that there is no card present.
What steps should I take next? Has my card given up the ghost?

HI
I have an Airport card that is detected by Network preferences, but can not connect to the network. Then on rare occasions, it will work for an hour and then mysteriously quit, while other users have no problems with the network. I've tried most of the posted solutions, have the latest security and OS updates, I've tried updating the AIrport card with 3 .pkg installers located in main-drive/Library/Receipts (AirportConfigApps.pkg; AirportTi2005-001.pkg and AirportDrivers.pkg) but they all say my software is up to date.
While, none of these solve the problem. I suspect its a firmware / driver problem. If I hold down the option key while clicking on the Airport signal icon and select "About Airport...", I see this for the dead Airport card
version 412.8; menu extra: 412.8.0; framework: 427.6.0; driver: 349.3.0, etc...
Another airport card that works all the time with no problems has this:
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Wow, thanks for that fast reply.
The PowerBook is about 6 years old, apple called it vintage. Although it has airport in it, this happened once before where the antenna or whatever came dislodged. Hubby likes to fall asleep with laptop in... His lap!
I also have a 2008 iMac running off the same airport and was trying to see if I could daisy chain something up. I have a FireWire cable too. I hear you smiling...
So if you can explain what a wireless USB adapter is I'd appreciate it. I thought I could just hook it straight up to my modem or airport express but apparently each have only one Ethernet.
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My GT6600GT was working great. It was quiet... a little too quiet. The computer was on overnight and this morning nothing was on the screen. I opened up the comp and there was the fan, dangling about 2 inches below the card. I waited for the card to cool down for about 15 minutes and hopped that the video card would still work so I could just replace the heat sink. It didn't work.
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Edit: I see that it has not been two years since purchase. I will try to use the warranty through newegg. Still any advice would be appreciated. Will this be covered?

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geforce's don't have a protection built in, or at least not all of them ...
Depends on temp sensor built in or not. Geforce6 gpus usually have a temp sensor built in which is read out through the driver. If the gpu gets too hot (geforce 6 about 120'C) the core will be slowed down by the driver. This should have avoided damage if your 6600GT has a temp sensor activated. Unfortunately many manufacturers disabled the 6600GT's temp sensor. Don't know if MSI also did that.
There were also some passive cooled 6600GT available, so I suppose the heatsink should have done the job. Did it run in 3d overnight? If not I doubt it's dead or the fan failure wasn't the only problem.
Warranty should be no problem fan failure is msi's fault. Problem is: You replaced the heatsink -> warranty is void! Better don't tell newegg or MSI!

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Here's what I've found:
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1) Repair Disk Permissions? I had already run Apple's Disk Utility and repaired permissions, as well as AppleJack, PRIOR to DiskWarrior.
2) Deleting the damaged .plist files?
3) Just coincidence, and the card inside the Powerbook that has been loose became reseated?
Unknown. Maybe other users with similar problems will opine.
Stephen

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I have seen this sort of thing on eBay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Airport-PCI-WiFi-Wireless-Card-Apple-Power-Mac-G3-G4-G5-/4 00149847039?pt=UKComputing_Apple_Mac_Accessories&hash=item5d2aca1bff#ht_1545wt752
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Nickmeister wrote:
Hi I have a Powermac G5 dual 2.0 ghz & looking to add wireless airport card.
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Yes. It booted from the Install disk and hardware check seemed to fine any problem, tho' the memory check took so long I stopped it. I was able to boot into Single User mode and also into Safe mode. I'm running a memory test now using Rmber in Safe mode.
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The signal strength meter in the menu bar or in Internet Connect is greyed out and the connection cannot be made -- eventually it gets to the point where the G5 cannot even remember any of my precvious connections. The Macwireless.com widget shows the connection and signal strength as bouncing from 0 to about 70% for all connections that are still recognized, with each location bouncing from the top of the list to the bottom and then sometimes disappearing altogether. After a short while the locations don't reappear... Once they're gone, they're pretty much gone without a trace (Airport Admin either cannot connect to the Airport, telling me an error occurred while trying to access it, or it doesn't see anything to get an error message from).
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Hi Julia,
Well, the card may have problems too, but I now think there's a software problem as others have suggested. It's odd because everything seemed fine for some time after applying the updates, so it appeared as if the card was bad or going bad. For me, I spent three days trying everything I could, including removing and re-seating the card, antenna wire and antenna, trying various configurations, resetting the Airport itself and so on. All to no avail.
On the last day, I had the strangest situation, where Mail could not see the Airport and could connect to nothing, but Safari was able to access the Internet! I used Safari to access sites I hadn't visited in months just to be sure I wasn't seeing cached versions of the pages... Eventually though, Safari lost contact, and that was it for the day.
After all that, the next day I turned on the Mac to see a solid connection that's been stable ever since except for the incident in my previous post where the Airport widgets knocked the connection out. Turning off those Widgets and closing Dashboard brought the connection back up immediately -- I haven't tried them again, and probably won't!.
Once I had the solid connection, I used Onyx to repair permissions, optimise the System and to empty the Network cache. I also deleted the various Locations I'd set up in the Network Preferences to get it back to just the one connection to choose from. If you're comfortable with Onyx (or Cocktail or one of the other utilities) you could try at least clearing the cache(s) and repairing permissions.
Have you tried a complete shut down and leaving the computer off overnight? Do you have anything set to open on startup that may try to connect with the Internet (like Mail or Safari)? Try removng them from your Startup Items (you can do this from the Dock -- click and hold on the icon and a mini menu should pop up with that option).
Have you looked at the info in System Profiler, and does it show the Airport card? (you can access System Profiler from the About This Mac item in the Apple Menu and clicking the button: More Info...) The card should show up under Network>Airpport Card.
Since you have a Powerbook, you have the option to take your computer to an Apple tech (Apple Genius at an Apple store, or to a dealer with a repair crew) and have them troubleshoot it. My guess is they'll end up reinstalling your OS and/or replacing the card... My G5 is far too heavy for me to throw it in the car -- and I found out the hard way yesterday that my computer is just 2 weeks out of warranty, so I'm ineligible for AppleCare. grrr... (my fault, but grrr...)
Let us know if anything good happens -- best of luck!

Installed 10.4.6, airport card is now dead. PLEASE HELP!

I installed 10.4.6, my airport card worked great before this. Now it's totally dead, won't power on and doesn't work. The card is only a few months old and worked great before I installed 10.4.6. I have tried taking the card out and reinserting it, restarting the computer, restarting the router, restarting the airport extreme base station, playing around with the network settings, you name it I have tried it. Can someone please give me some help???
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it's actually a Macsense AEROcard extreme WPE-800.
It's this one you're talking about, isn't it? Do they use any custom drivers or is it plug+play?
And I don't have another laptop to test it on. I have contacted Macsense and the only response I got from them was one asking me what kind of computer I am using the card on.
What kind of response was that? They make Mac products, you've been using the card fine, it now seems dead and the only feedback you got from them was that?
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Again, if the card is dead (and when hardware fails) 10.4.6 (and any OS) has nothing to do with it
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Can the Airport Card just go bad?

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Hi
Just like any other electronic component, an airport card can go bad. However, it's more likely that you're yet another victim of the unexplained wireless connection problem which is plaguing MacBooks. A quick survey of this forum will find many similar posts to yours
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2 weeks ago the hard disk drive was acting funny and after attempts at repairing and reformatting apple decided the hardware had failed. After a long 2 weeks without my iMac I finally get it back with a fresh format, when I boot it up I don't seem to have the option of connecting to the internet wirelessly via my airport card.
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http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2637/cimg0202bh8.jpg
Is it time to take my imac back to apple for another 2 weeks?

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j9fleri, Welcome to the discussion area!
One (or more) of the following must be true:
The antenna wire isn't properly attached to the AirPort card. Is this the original AirPort card or the AirPort Extreme card? If it is the AirPort Extreme card, use the photos in KB 108039, Properly attaching the antenna on an AirPort Extreme Card to verify that the antenna wire is properly installed.
You are experiencing some sever RF interference. See KB 58543, AirPort: Potential sources of interference.
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