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| Thread ID: 108261 | 2010-03-21 01:08:00 | Win7: Wireless networks unavailable, yet card detected & working? | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 868871 | 2010-03-21 01:08:00 | Hi all, So I upgraded my brothers & his Mrs laptop to Win7. It's a semi-old Asus laptop, but they've got 1.5GB RAM in it so it goes OK. Long story short: Their son who's 6 months old was sitting on his fathers lap while he was on TradeMe, and he made a reach for the keyboard. A few bashes later from the 6-month old boy and WiFi networking no longer works. Here's what I've got so far: - Wired networking is OK and they've been hooking directly into the router for now - There's nowhere in the BIOS to enable or disable the wireless - The Fn + F2 Key to turn WiFi on and off only seems to affect the light on the front of the laptop but not actually enable or disable it - System Rollback didn't fix anything - Driver update didn't work - The whole time it's showed up in Device manager as working correctly - Nothing shows up in "available wireless networks", it just complains there's none around - I plug in an external TP-Link card which I know works (I've been using it on another Win7 desktop -- Default windows drivers work fine) and it also suffers the same fate as the inbuilt WiFi card - Repairing the network card doesn't fix the issue - Removing it and rebooting then rescanning for the hardware doesn't change anything - I ran "sfc /scannow" and that didn't fix it - Tried with multiple different access points, both at their house and mine, nothing works Thing is I only just upgraded them like 2 weeks ago, I'd rather not reinstall everything all over again :p Any thoughts or ideas appreciated Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 868872 | 2010-03-21 01:53:00 | Uninstall the 6-month old kid. His aura is affecting the computer performance. |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 868873 | 2010-03-21 02:07:00 | The kid didn't knock a switch to toggle wifi on and off? Simple but it does happen | plod (107) | ||
| 868874 | 2010-03-21 02:41:00 | Yeah there's no physical switch with the exception of the Fn + F2 keys, but they don't appear to do squat, turning it on / off (Little blue LED on the front) doesn't affect it in any way :-/ | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 868875 | 2010-03-21 04:26:00 | If it's anything like the 5 or 6 year old Asus I have, the wifi card is situated just under the keyboard around the position of the 0 to backspace and L to Enter keys. I'd be checking the antenna connections to the card if it was me. HTH |
jinja_thom (4306) | ||
| 868876 | 2010-03-21 05:34:00 | That's a good point, but I'm wondering why it would also affect the external USB card, so I'm presuming it's something software-related ... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 868877 | 2010-06-17 06:24:00 | Does it happen in Safe Mode(with networking)? | Blam (54) | ||
| 868878 | 2010-06-17 07:13:00 | Wow this is old, but yes it did ... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 868879 | 2010-06-17 07:28:00 | will be a software issue. download the wpa2-psk update as that should help. it got my pc and laptop to pick up my wpa2-psk wireless network | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 868880 | 2010-06-17 10:52:00 | Wow this is old, but yes it did ... Try checking if any of the wireless services are disabled.. Have you reinstalled already, or still trying to fix it? will be a software issue. download the wpa2-psk update as that should help. it got my pc and laptop to pick up my wpa2-psk wireless network Well if it works in safe mode thats unlikely |
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