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I have a e machine d620 and it was slow so i wiped everything on it and reinstalled windows vista but now it wont pick up wireless signals, what do i do?
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Vista is a SLOWWW OS, not much you can do about that other then go to a different version of Windows, i'm actually surprised anyone would be using it anymore. I would either go down to Windows 7 or up to Windows 8.1, as for the other causes, if its a Vista machine its getting pretty old, and with laptops and notebooks they see a lot of bumping around and over time the hard drives in them just start going bad and acting slower and slower. If the hardware was decent in it otherwise, good amount of memory and fast enough processor, i would put in a SSD and install a better version of Windows. Thats the long answer..
For the short answer, it sounds like you need to reinstall the drivers for your WiFi adapter. Should be able to download it from Asus support website. If you can't get internet on that computer at all, no wired ethernet port to plug in to get online, then download the driver on another computer and toss it on a thumb drive then take that to the laptop and install to get the WiFi working again.
Did you upgrade the RAM when you upgraded to Vista. The D620 does not have the resources to run vista as pre-configured and requires, at the least, a memory upgrade. 1gb or greater is recommended.
Please upgrade the ram, or try F8 during boot for Safe-Mode and see if your RAM is not the issue. To check the amount of RAM you have:
Press and Hold Windows Key + PauseBreak
If you still have 256mb or 512mb vista is likely to barely crawl.
The question there is that, is the original operating system of the dell d620 is windows xp or vista, because it wont work properly if the drivers of the system is not installed, especially if the hardware is for vista but there is a workaround try to find the drivers of your system for xp on support.dell.com
Try to manually "Add device to network" by using the wireless setup wizard. Check to see if the Wireless Zero Configuration service is "Running" before trying to add device. Yuo may also want to disable IPv6 in vista tcp/ip properties page.
THis guy was an idiot that told you to wipe the hard drive. All you have to do, is go to the network connection software that your wireless card uses, this is different for all laptops, ad click on the connections tab. Now you should see a list of all available wireless connections. Click on whichever connection has the name of your wireless network, and enterrr in the Access Key (if it is enabled) and you should be good to go. If you dont know the name for your network, look on your wireless router for a sticker that says SSID: this is the name of the connection, there should also be a WEP or WPA code there, which is the access Key.
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