On the downside yesterday, the wi-fi on the wife's laptop crapped out a day after I finally got it working right! It wasn't long after we got the thing that the internal wireless just wouldn't connect. It would see networks but never be able to connect. I pulled the card, checked the antenna connections but still nothing. I checked the drivers and such but nothing seemed out of place. We had a USB Wi-Fi adapter sitting around so she just used that until that got damaged. So I ordered a new half-card, mini-card wireless adapter for five bucks and dropped that it. What happened? Perfectly connected up, no problems, top transfer speeds across the board.
That worked great for an entire day! I came home last night, picked it up and connected to a minecraft server and played for an hour. No issues whatsoever. I put the thing down to eat some toast and watch some IT Crowd and when I picked it back up the card was gone.
Yup...the card was no longer listed in the device manager. Poof....gone. I popped the back off just to make sure it hadn't been stolen by pixies but it was still there physically. Odd, I thought, it's still there! I restarted and now the computer is trying to tell me I have a unrecognizable USB device attached to the computer. What the heck? Somehow, in the span of making toast, the system decided that the wireless card wasn't a wireless card but rather a mutant USB device. I am a titch angry. If I can install it manually rather than relying on the plug-and-play awesomeness that is modern computing maybe that will clear it up. It's a fix I will try tonight.
Sadly though I fear it's a bad port and never repairable. I guess it's back to USB adapters. So sad.
At least Bioshock: Infinite downloaded the day it was working. ;)
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I HATE when device drivers are auto-loaded, it's such a damn mess trying to uninstall the shitty driver and reinstall the good ones because it'll automagically (not a typo) look at the install that is fuxxored rather than the good one.
Also, how goes Bioshock Infinite? I want that game so hard.
This is the first time I've had real problems with the auto-install. It's wicked annoying though, I'll give you that. The silly thing is I need to get online to get the driver pack but it's the wifi card that's out so I can't go online...time to dig out a cable and jack into the router...so primitive.
Beth purchased the Bioshock so she gets first dibs...I'll let you know in a few weeks when I get my hands on it.
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