I have a tricky PC issue that I hope someone out there can help me with.
I have a generic PC that's been with me for a couple of years. I use a USB wifi dongle to connect to the internet. I wanted to attach a wifi card to my motherboard but that proved difficult to find. For the first year or so the wifi dongle was acting fine. Then it started having issues, refusing to work, etc. so 3 months ago I bought a new one. It started acting up, so I had it replaced (in cd-r king). The new one worked okay for 3 months, then it too started acting funny and eventually just not working at all. I brought it back to the cd-r king where it started working flawlessly. I started to realize that maybe the problem was not with the dongles but with my computer. I decided to buy another, more expensive dongle anyway, since my first dongle that lasted for a year was a belkin. It worked fine for a couple of days but now it's also crapping out on me.
The USB ports on the front of my computer have been acting buggy, so I moved the dongle to the back. This worked for today, then when I got home tonight it's busted again.
I'm getting really frustrated. I'm not sure what's going on, and I need to be connected to the internet for work so I'm already thinking about solutions like simply buying a new computer, maybe one with built in wifi. The tech at cd-r king suggested that it might be my power supply. It could be, because the power supply I'm using is rather old, and to be honest I've forgotten the specs. Bbt I've had power supply issues before and usually the stuff that gets critically affected is power hungry connections like ram. It seems ridiculous that the small amount of electricity that needs to be we'd to a wifi router could be the issue.
I'm at a loss so if anyone can even guess at a solution to this I would be eternally grateful.
I have a generic PC that's been with me for a couple of years. I use a USB wifi dongle to connect to the internet. I wanted to attach a wifi card to my motherboard but that proved difficult to find. For the first year or so the wifi dongle was acting fine. Then it started having issues, refusing to work, etc. so 3 months ago I bought a new one. It started acting up, so I had it replaced (in cd-r king). The new one worked okay for 3 months, then it too started acting funny and eventually just not working at all. I brought it back to the cd-r king where it started working flawlessly. I started to realize that maybe the problem was not with the dongles but with my computer. I decided to buy another, more expensive dongle anyway, since my first dongle that lasted for a year was a belkin. It worked fine for a couple of days but now it's also crapping out on me.
The USB ports on the front of my computer have been acting buggy, so I moved the dongle to the back. This worked for today, then when I got home tonight it's busted again.
I'm getting really frustrated. I'm not sure what's going on, and I need to be connected to the internet for work so I'm already thinking about solutions like simply buying a new computer, maybe one with built in wifi. The tech at cd-r king suggested that it might be my power supply. It could be, because the power supply I'm using is rather old, and to be honest I've forgotten the specs. Bbt I've had power supply issues before and usually the stuff that gets critically affected is power hungry connections like ram. It seems ridiculous that the small amount of electricity that needs to be we'd to a wifi router could be the issue.
I'm at a loss so if anyone can even guess at a solution to this I would be eternally grateful.
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