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wifi problem E1505

post #1 of 9
12/30/06 at 5:15pm
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on my dell laptop not even 4 months old my wifi is being weird... when i start the computer up the little wifi LED comes on indicating that theres wifi near, so i click on windows wifi manager and it shows me all the available networks, but it wont connect to any of them, not even my preferred ones. Could i have disabled something?
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post #2 of 9
12/30/06 at 9:16pm
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Originally Posted by jayno20
on my dell laptop not even 4 months old my wifi is being weird... when i start the computer up the little wifi LED comes on indicating that theres wifi near, so i click on windows wifi manager and it shows me all the available networks, but it wont connect to any of them, not even my preferred ones. Could i have disabled something?

This morning, cable in our area went out for a little while. When it came back on, I couldn't connect with wifi - my desktop was doing exactly what you describe. Networks were showing, but the machine would not connect. I just clicked "repair" and all was well again.
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post #3 of 9
12/30/06 at 10:13pm
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i tried repair, its been doing this for the last 2 days now... and my machine is set to dual boot and it does it in xp and vista... could it be a bad card?
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post #4 of 9
12/30/06 at 10:40pm
have you reset your router? and or cable modem to do this just unplug them both for a minute and plug them back in sometimes this fixes the problem
jim
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post #5 of 9
12/30/06 at 10:55pm
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yeah, this is with any wireless tho, not just mine.
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post #6 of 9
12/30/06 at 11:37pm
will a different computer connect?
jim
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post #7 of 9
12/31/06 at 12:54am
If it does it under 2 completely different operating systems, and with any wireless network, The hardware tends to be at fault.

First I would reset your bios, give that a try and see if that kickstarts it again. If not, I would open the bottom and see if your antenna wires are attached and even reseat the card. If that doesnt hit it, I would call dell.
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post #8 of 9
12/31/06 at 1:09am
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ok i did a system restore and now it seems to be working fine... i dont get how that could have caused a problem for vista...?
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post #9 of 9
12/31/06 at 1:52am
Vistas wireless on rc1 and rc2 is not as stable as rtm ive used all 3 and there is a noticable difference between the three also the firewall is a little different on the access of ports between the 3
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