Net adapter died over-night?

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silent-circuit

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Everything was good 2, 3 days ago. My Vista 64 Ultimate machine (in sig) went in to hibernation, I've been busy, didn't use it again until today. Then it wouldn't wake back up -- just gave me a black screen. Tried the "repair" route via the Vista DVD and no luck, so I took it as an opportunity to switch my OS over to my newer, faster WD AAKS drive.

Installed Vista, everything's fine. Go to install drivers for my wireless card (Gigabyte GN-WP01-GS) it finds the card, installs the drivers... hard locks.

I figure, maybe drivers are corrupt, so I reboot in safemode, uninstall the wifi card and delete drivers, try again. Same thing.

This thing was working fine 2, 3 days ago, I haven't touched it, it's on a UPS with AVR and everything else... any ideas? Do I just need to go get a new card? I'm hoping that's all it is and the motherboard hasn't decided to give up the ghost, because I /need/ that PCI slot...
 
Somewhere between 2 and 4 years old, not certain. I just got back from the store and got the cheapest 802.11g card I could find locally (Netgear WPN311) so I'll be able to confirm if it's the card or the board/slot causing trouble in a moment here.

EDIT: Seems the card just gave up. The new one is working fine.
 
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