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UPDATE: I cracked open the case, took the wireless card out and blew out the PCI slot and the antenna ports then reseated it. So far the issue is gone but I will keep an eye on it and keep an eye out for a decent AC card to replace this one with when it dies.

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Well I'm not really sure what is going on. My desktop is about 2 weeks old and my wireless is being finnicky. I am using a D-Link DWA-552 XtremeN PCI card and a Cisco Linksys E3000 Wireless Router. Up until a few days ago it was running fine ... Now unless I boot it a couple times a day, the following day when I boot it the wireless card will not see any wireless networks until I reboot the system. It's not a huge issue, but I'm concerned that this issue could be an early sign that the wireless card is nearing the end of its life. I haven't messed around with overclocking on this system yet, and don't really have the time to spend messing with the wireless card and was hoping for some insight.

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:C

 

get a LAN cable if you can. srsly cat6 in the house.

if rebooting the system fixes the card, instead of rebooting just try disabling and re-enabling it in windows.

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I honestly would do that, but considering that the router is on the other side of a different floor in the house I'd need at least a 150' cable.

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have you tried poping the Wifi card into another PC?

 

this will rule out any issues with your current PC

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I don't have another working PC with a spot to test the card on.

The only other desktop PCs I have are an old Compaq running that ran Windows 95 till it was upgraded to Windows 98 and a crappy Dell running Windows 2000.

The Windows 98 only has only 1 PCI slot that it has its ethnernet card in (not to mention there is no driver for my card prior to Windows XP) and the other PC has a dead harddrive.

I considered swapping the IDE harddrive in the 98 computer over to the 2000 PC until I saw it was only 2 GB. =(

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UPDATE: I cracked open the case, took the wireless card out and blew out the PCI slot and the antenna ports then reseated it. So far the issue is gone but I will keep an eye on it and keep an eye out for a decent AC card to replace this one with when it dies.

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