This is driving me crazy! I've been trying to install a network card in my home computer (AMD Athlon 750Mhz, 512MB, WinXP Home Ed.).

I've tried two different cards, one Ethernet and one wireless USB adapter. Regardless of which one I install, explorer.exe starts pegging the CPU at 100% and begins using all of the memory until the machine crashes.

The funny thing is that I can plug my cable modem directly into a USB port and everything works fine.

Has anyone ever had this happen? No conflicts show up in the Device Manager. I'm getting ready to uninstall McAfee Internet Security and Firewall to see if they might be conflicting with it.

Thanks,
Jason