WiFi card recognition problem.

[LaserProUSA]

Help!

Anyone had this problem. Last night I depleted my battery down to 16% responding to email, reading this forum, general surfing the net, ect. and all was fine and dandy. At 16% decided to mount my NZ into it's cradle for the night and went to bed.

This morning I took the NZ off the cradle and plugged in my WiFi WL100 Lan card to check my email and IT'S DEAD!

Upon plug in the beeping sound is nowhere to be heard but when I unplug it, the familiar beep happens as normal. Tried my AmbiCom CF Modem (works), MS/CF Adapter w/ MS stick inserted (not useable but goes through the beep recognition process) and my AmbiCom CF Lan card (not useable but also goes through the beep recognition process). All CF cards give me the familiar beep upon insert and beep upon removal.

What to do? Have tried plugging in and out at lead a dozen times, reinstalled the driver a half dozen times, numerous soft resets, and finally a complete backup and a hard reset, but to no avail.

Any ideas out there? Has anyone ever experienced the WL100 card going bad? How can depleting the battery down to 16% cause this or am I missing something here?

[gbandru]

I had the exact problem with by NX70. It was not the wifi card but the unit itself. Sony did great, I shipped out last thursday, it came back today. They replaced 2 board within the unit. Works great now.

[LaserProUSA]

Did Sony say what caused the problem, or simply a bad board? Also what 2 boards needed replacing.

4 day turnaround, not at all bad, but this is why I got the Best Buy warranty for instant return/replacement (I have no patience). Since my NZ is only 1 week old can return for replacement, but I would be pretty upset if this happened after their 30 return policy period.

[n2ifp]

See my other post in the NZ forum. BTW, the WL100 card can go bad too. I don't know if gbandru had the validation beeps or not. If the modem does, then I would look a little closer.