Latitude D530 Wireless Help...

I reformatted my wife's D530 laptop over the weekend with XP with moderate success. The only problem she's having right now is that it drops the wireless signal after a half hour or so. She can reconnect most of the time by shutting down, but sometimes it just stalls out. Today she emailed me and said it would not connect at all to our home wireless network. The desktop in the basement would, so it wasn't on the router side. This problem happens on other networks outside the house as well (her work, library and so on).

Before I reformatted the laptop, she never had any problems connecting to wireless network. And it would stay connected for days or even weeks unless you manually disconnected it. The reason I reformatted it was because of numerous malware and spyware bugs on it as well as many installed then uninstalled programs that left behind a lot of garbage files. Not to mention the system32 file corrupted or was deleted. I could have just repaired it, but it was time for a fresh start.

It's your basic Latitude D530 with XP. Any help is appreciated.


Thanks,

-j

 

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John