jiancjh

I'm running vista on a toshiba satellite a200 laptop.
I've been using it for a year, and it gives me no problems.

However, just recently, after being connected to the internet for like an hour or so, i would get disconnected and would not be able to reconnect.
In order to reconnect, I would have to restart my whole computer.

its like, after i get disconnected, I still can run my various applications smoothly, but as soon as i open network connections, or select "connect to a network", the window hangs, or sometimes simply unresponsive.

sometimes, when it is responsive, the network connection window pops up, but finds no connection, diagnostics results show that "Please switch on your wireless device to detect wireless connection". But its always turned on.


I've not encountered this problem before. I've done a system restore to various points in time but the problem still persists.


The only explanation i can think of is, the recent tweaks i've made in services.msc, however, i've restored all to their default settings, and i still get disconnected.

Is it a hardware malfunction?

I've tried almost eveyrthing except reformatting just yet, hope i dont have to resort to that.

Please help.

joeten

hi check your manual to locate where your card is located open up and try reseating your card you might also go to the mfr support website for for your comp and get the latest driver