I'm not very tech-savvy, and I'm in a terrible jam.
I have a Dell Studio XPS 1640, running Windows Vista Home Premium. I have had it for almost five years, and I have almost used it exclusively to connect wirelessly at home and at school. Just in the past few days, it suddenly decided it will not connect to any wifi network at all: home or school. It identifies nearby wifi networks, but can not connect to them, and sometimes, its detection of these networks cut out. This is about the only spotty thing I can identify may be part of the problem. I have tried repeatedly to connect to my tried and true wireless networks, but it just gives me the standard that the router/access point is not working or to contact an administrator. I can be just five inches from the router, but it still will not connect wirelessly. The only saving grace is that my computer will still connect to the internet by manually connecting it to the router with a cable. I've reset the router, deleted networks as a kind of reset discovery, and reconfigured the network profiles but to no avail. I've checked the network adaptors (in normal and safe modes) and everything is running fine (I even disabled and enabled the adaptor to see if it would change). The computer hasn't installed any out of the ordinary updates either, so I have absolutely no clue as to what else I can do.
Is this a hardware failure? Can anyone help me with my problem?
I have a Dell Studio XPS 1640, running Windows Vista Home Premium. I have had it for almost five years, and I have almost used it exclusively to connect wirelessly at home and at school. Just in the past few days, it suddenly decided it will not connect to any wifi network at all: home or school. It identifies nearby wifi networks, but can not connect to them, and sometimes, its detection of these networks cut out. This is about the only spotty thing I can identify may be part of the problem. I have tried repeatedly to connect to my tried and true wireless networks, but it just gives me the standard that the router/access point is not working or to contact an administrator. I can be just five inches from the router, but it still will not connect wirelessly. The only saving grace is that my computer will still connect to the internet by manually connecting it to the router with a cable. I've reset the router, deleted networks as a kind of reset discovery, and reconfigured the network profiles but to no avail. I've checked the network adaptors (in normal and safe modes) and everything is running fine (I even disabled and enabled the adaptor to see if it would change). The computer hasn't installed any out of the ordinary updates either, so I have absolutely no clue as to what else I can do.
Is this a hardware failure? Can anyone help me with my problem?
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