I just don't like redundancy. Gives me a headache at times, making me tell people to read what the topic is actually about and what things I have already done. For the most part I am very nice, its when it gets to 1:10 AM in the morning and I still have no wireless. Especially, when I have to constantly move around and help other people with their issues and I can't seem to solve my own .

I also considered looking inside, as long as I don't happen to move the GPU or CPU around, it should be okay. Hell, the card might not even be near them.

I don't know on this notebook I have not opened mine yet. But it should be under a cover on the bottom by itself.

I will have to check out a website, perhaps ASUS might actually have the layout for me this time. Thank you for your help, once again. I will not be replying anytime too soon as I think staying up close to 40hrs doing assignments, correcting issues, and ultimately speaking to all of you (Joking, it was fun for now) has tired me out.

This is my first Technical forum by the way. I am so far enjoying it. I look like this right now

Welcome and good luck.

Okay, so I have actually fixed the issue now, I hope it won't do this again.

Troubleshooting Steps:
1. I first tried to uninstall and re-install the drivers from Atheros once more. However, like before it didn't help at all.

2. I then decided to check the BIOS, which came up with nothing at all related to the WLAN. I then turned off the laptop.

3. Taking a small screw driver, I took out the 5 screws holding the back part of the laptop out (The back part where all the good stuff is).

4. Looking inside I found no evidence of the antenna having damage at all, it was also safely secure, which ultimately made me happy. Some manufacturer's tend to just leave it hanging, not tied somewhere and protected by a sheath of some sort (possibly light plastic).

5. I turn the computer back on and decide that I want to search for all possible driver files (on my machine). Come to find out something unusual went missing when I first put XP on my machine. located under %systemroot%\NLDRV as 6 different folders containing various information vital to functionality.

6. I pop the driver disc containing the program and files that are missing from my system into my DVD drive. Launch the setup and files are restored/ re-installed back into the computer. Fine... but no real difference until the next step.

7. Launch the Atheros Client Utility, create a custom profile listing some SSID's including mine. Find out there is a "Scan" button listed on the program, so I scan and I see 3 networks, 1 of which is mine.

8. I still cannot seem to connect to the wireless AP and my Network Connections service shows that I am still disconnected, Microsoft cannot find any wireless networks so I search carefully around the Atheros Client Utility program.

9. There is an option to choose the Atheros Client, Windows, or a Third party program. Oddly enough, I click on the Windows checkbox to change over (Although windows itself tells me I am using Windows for my client). Located under the properties of the device, in Network Connections service, located under the Wireless Networks tab it shows "Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings" which was the default all along!

So basically it came down to Windows ultimately messing with my settings. Understandably the program that should have been installed and never removed should have always been on my system. However, even without that program and it's services, I was still able to use wireless for nearly a month going back and forth from school to home.

I will now make this thread part of my Change Management Log just in case this happens again and I forget how to get it back exactly.

Thank everyone in this thread that at least tried to give some good advice and help me reach my goal.

Alternately if anyone finds that Windows is not working as their default Wireless manager, They can download a third party program that has the same and mot likely, better features.

In this case another problem arose, turns out Windows really didn't want anything to do with my wireless connection. I tried everything above all over again, but that did not have any affect. At this point, I decided to use the program that came with my driver's CD used for my wireless connection. It did not work before, but it was a shot at attempting to fix my issue once again. Using the Atheros Client Utility (disabling Windows management), Created an account and modifying it to my specific network at home/ school (security, SSID, Wireless Mode etc.) and my second issue was fixed and working better than it did before.

If I have any other issues, I will post it here with help or with a solution of how to fix it. I notice not all people have an Atheros card but this is for people with similar issues, especially with this specific device.

Once again, any other input would be great even any other solutions other than what has already been posted.