Hi all.
I have a Micronet Wireless LAN PCI Adapter (Realtek 8185) to use with my PC, but it's given me lots of trouble in the past and I had it gathering dust on a shelf for a while.
A couple days ago, I felt the need to re-format my PC so that it was running fast and didn't have all the useless software I had on it, and I thought it might be a good idea to try out the wireless card again to see if it worked. Since I successfully reinstalled Windows and such, and let Windows install a driver for the wireless card, it's worked perfectly.
Now, last night (and this won't be the problem I don't think but it's worth mentioning) we had a power cut and even after the power came back on, my PC wasn't getting enough power to start-up, until I tried it this morning.
My PC started up just fine but now the wireless card was having issues connecting to the internet. At first, it was saying that Windows couldn't detect the proxy. After resetting the adapter the internet would work for about 2 minutes before the same problem happened.
This was the same problem that I've had with the adapter before, but I don't get why it's suddenly happened now, when it was working perfectly before. I tried to uninstall the drivers for it and get ones from the internet but nothing has worked. I've tried versions for Win7, Vista and even XP and they all seem to come across the same problem.
I thought that a system restore would fix the issue as I could go back to yesterday when it was working. Wrong. It's still acting up.
What could be the issue? I have no idea what it could be. I didn't install anything yesterday or run any updates and such either.
I rarely go on forums to ask for help as I can normally Google the issue and fix things myself, but I've searched around lots and although I find some people with the same sort of issues, the fixes that others reply with don't work.
Sorry for the length of this, I felt the need to include everything here.
System is running on Windows 7 64 bit.
Thanks in advance for any help!
I have a Micronet Wireless LAN PCI Adapter (Realtek 8185) to use with my PC, but it's given me lots of trouble in the past and I had it gathering dust on a shelf for a while.
A couple days ago, I felt the need to re-format my PC so that it was running fast and didn't have all the useless software I had on it, and I thought it might be a good idea to try out the wireless card again to see if it worked. Since I successfully reinstalled Windows and such, and let Windows install a driver for the wireless card, it's worked perfectly.
Now, last night (and this won't be the problem I don't think but it's worth mentioning) we had a power cut and even after the power came back on, my PC wasn't getting enough power to start-up, until I tried it this morning.
My PC started up just fine but now the wireless card was having issues connecting to the internet. At first, it was saying that Windows couldn't detect the proxy. After resetting the adapter the internet would work for about 2 minutes before the same problem happened.
This was the same problem that I've had with the adapter before, but I don't get why it's suddenly happened now, when it was working perfectly before. I tried to uninstall the drivers for it and get ones from the internet but nothing has worked. I've tried versions for Win7, Vista and even XP and they all seem to come across the same problem.
I thought that a system restore would fix the issue as I could go back to yesterday when it was working. Wrong. It's still acting up.
What could be the issue? I have no idea what it could be. I didn't install anything yesterday or run any updates and such either.
I rarely go on forums to ask for help as I can normally Google the issue and fix things myself, but I've searched around lots and although I find some people with the same sort of issues, the fixes that others reply with don't work.
Sorry for the length of this, I felt the need to include everything here.
System is running on Windows 7 64 bit.
Thanks in advance for any help!