Complete wireless fail, hardware or software?

3t3P

3t3P

3t3P

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Posting on behalf of my housemate:

We have spent 24hrs trying to get his PC on our new wireless network.

At first we thought it was the free D-link USB network dongle virgin media provided with us. The driver install process would repeatedly crash and stall the PC slightly.

After much cursing at D-link we eventually decided to try it on my PC whereby it worked perfectly first time.

We have also tried a new wireless card from ******s today AND my edimax wireless card on the PC I am writing on now.

Neither would successfully work:(

He also went out and bought a new copy of win 7 64bit Home premium which has not helped.

We tried also updating the mobo to the latest BIOS to no effect.

We are beginning to think it is in fact the mobo at fault! As we are literally out of ideas, hence me posting.

We're both getting distressed in true nerd fashion as we need to play some starcraft!

The mobo is an Asus P7P55D Socket 1156.

He also thinks when he upgraded to i5 that he did away with his wireless belkin PCI card because it wasn't working. He didn't think too much of this however, as the router in his prev apartment was in his room so just plugged in directly.

Is it possible his mobo is faulty ONLY in terms of wireless connectivity? As all our evidence is pointing towards this!

Any other info you guys want i'll try to give and much appreciated for any thoughts,

Cheers
 
Assuming the system is actually detecting the wireless card and the PCI slot is thus physically working, it's unlikely to be the mobo.

When you say that the wireless cards 'don't work', what does that mean exactly? Can't you install the drivers? Do the cards function but not detect any networks? Or do they see the network but aren't able to connect to it?
 
hi my pc went on the network fine.

his network adapters can see the networks then when we try to join it asks for the network key, sometimes twice
then it still wont let us on. the pci cards were physically working in their slots as far as we could tell.

we also disabled security on the d-link router but that didnt help.
 
I need help with a similar situation...

My onboard wifi won't connect to anything.

ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe, I've also tried using a Belkin PCI WirelessG card to no success. The only thing it picks up is the airport extreme on my desk not 2 feet away but with TERRIBLE signal, like 1 bar.

I'm pulling my hair out here!!
 
sounds reasonable Jayster we'll give that a go.

n1blo it's biblically frustrating isn't it! and it isn't even my PC!
 
Jayster said:
Try resetting your router to factory defaults and connecting before you start changing settings
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I would try this.

Our wireless was crippled for months...dropping connections every few minutes requiring a route reset, and sometimes not even connecting at all.

Check encryption also as we were using WEP, then changed to WPA-PSK. The connection is now rock solid.

Make sure the pass key is correct on the client PCs.
 
It's not the router, or the wireless cards as we have tried different ones of either. Its something with the particular PC. We have had a BLANK fresh install of windows 7 in 32 bit and 64 bit. Three different wireless cards have been tried (2 x PCI cards and the USB dongle one). Two routers have been used.
Occasionally the PC has managed to get on the router and even access the internet but as soon as the PC reboots or anything is changed its gone again. I can sometimes connect to the network according to windows but trying to access the routers setup page is impossible hence not really being on windows just thinks I am.
I cant think of anything it can be except a hardware issue not to do with the wireless card or router. And the only thing I can think that would matter is the mobo.
Thoughts any1? :( This is driving us insane. Spent 150 quid on windows and new wireless card so far!
 
3t3P said:
It's not the router, or the wireless cards as we have tried different ones of either. Its something with the particular PC. We have had a BLANK fresh install of windows 7 in 32 bit and 64 bit. Three different wireless cards have been tried (2 x PCI cards and the USB dongle one). Two routers have been used.
Occasionally the PC has managed to get on the router and even access the internet but as soon as the PC reboots or anything is changed its gone again. I can sometimes connect to the network according to windows but trying to access the routers setup page is impossible hence not really being on windows just thinks I am.
I cant think of anything it can be except a hardware issue not to do with the wireless card or router. And the only thing I can think that would matter is the mobo.
Thoughts any1? :( This is driving us insane. Spent 150 quid on windows and new wireless card so far!
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Are all of your drivers up to date? And is there any other parts you can get a lend of and try them to see whats causing the problem?
 
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