built new pc but one problem driving me mad

Discussion in 'Software' started by rockstar6181, Mar 5, 2008.

  1. rockstar6181

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    hi,

    all the parts for a new pc arrived the over day and i put it altogether with out to many problems. Its all up and runninh however the wireless side of things is driving me nuts.

    I am running vista 64 and at first was using a belkin G PCI card which had a leaflet in the box saying not vista compabile so i downloaded some updated drivers off the net and all was good. I connected to my old dlink router with wpa psk and got all the updates for vista as well as browsing the net. Suddenly it disconnected and when i tried to reconnect it would come up with "timed out" - if i put a wrong wpa key in on purpose it would tell me its wrong so i know it was talking to the router.

    I took all the secruity off the router and rescanned and it connected however was getting a 169 local address (no idea why)

    I decided to cut my losses and went down to pc world and picked up a new dlink router nad dongle(i wanted a new one for a while now as the other one was bought in 2005 and was quite dated).

    Anyhow this new one says its vista compabile so i set it all up did a scan (still using the belkin card) and again local address. Decieded to remove the belkin card and install the usb dlkin dongle - when plugged in it says found new hardware however when installing it through the dlink program it says it cant find it. I tested the adapter on a xp machine and it works fine. even pointing the device in DM to the cd or folder of the drivers doesnt work. any ideas anyone its defying logic
     
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  2. Sparky
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    Think that may be the issue mate 8)
     
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  3. Theprof

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    I think so too. Also just to add make sure you're installing drivers in admin mode. In the past in the past I kept on forget to do a run as and ended going in circles trying to figure out why it's not installing.
     
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  4. BosonMichael
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    If you're not getting a DHCP address, just assign a static address, and make your router stop assigning addresses. Provided your drivers work... problem solved.
     
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  5. GiddyG

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    That's probably the issue though, isn't it? You need signed drivers every time for Vista 64 don't you?
     

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