I was playing Battlefront earlier with a friend, and my PC randomly crashed mid match. It was completely off and unresponsive, EXCEPT the LED to the power supply was still on. I unplugged the power, shutting off that LED, and hit the power button. It turned back on and all was good. However, when I turned it on, my wifi card wasn't working. At first it worked but was INCREDIBLY laggy, and now I can't get it to connect at all. The networks in the area are listed, but when I try to connect I get one of two errors. "Can't connect to this network" on trying to connect, or a limited connection is established and windows diagnostics tells me there's a "Problem with the wireless adapter or access point." OCCASIONALLY I can get it to reconnect, but its momentarily and the ping is unreal. Everything else connected to my wireless works fine (this laptop, phone, tablet).
What I've tried:
Cold boot of everything
Reconnected the wifi card (it's PCIE, reseated it and tried it)
Full OS reinstall
Full factory reset of router
Running TP-link's utility software
Flushing DNS cache
I got nothing. Is it safe to assume the thing is broken? I DO NOT have an ethernet cable on hand to try hard wire.
System specs
Windows 10 64 bit
Gigabyte z87-d3hp motherboard
8gb kingston hyperx ram
intel core i5-4670k
Asus GTX 970
Samsung 128gb SSD and WDC 1tb HD
Wireless card: TP-Link TL-WN881ND
Under most circumstances I'd just go buy a new one, but money is incredibly tight right now keeping up with college and rent and w/e. Would like to avoid it if I can.
Thanks for any help!
What I've tried:
Cold boot of everything
Reconnected the wifi card (it's PCIE, reseated it and tried it)
Full OS reinstall
Full factory reset of router
Running TP-link's utility software
Flushing DNS cache
I got nothing. Is it safe to assume the thing is broken? I DO NOT have an ethernet cable on hand to try hard wire.
System specs
Windows 10 64 bit
Gigabyte z87-d3hp motherboard
8gb kingston hyperx ram
intel core i5-4670k
Asus GTX 970
Samsung 128gb SSD and WDC 1tb HD
Wireless card: TP-Link TL-WN881ND
Under most circumstances I'd just go buy a new one, but money is incredibly tight right now keeping up with college and rent and w/e. Would like to avoid it if I can.
Thanks for any help!
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