Asus G50Vt wireless problem

My G50Vt-X6 has been working without any problems in the 15 months that I have owned it. Today the wireless network indicator in the status bar showed a problem with the connection. This has happened before and the only way to restore the internet connection is to reboot.

When I tried to reboot, it took more than 3 mins to shut down and over 5 mins to get to the logon screen. All my programs/games were working fine but the system refused to detect any wireless networks.

After messing around with the network settings without any success I used the recovery partition to restore the system to it's factory state. Now the system is always taking over 4 mins to boot up and a similar amount of time to shut down. Once it is booted up it works fine however but the wireless adapter still refuses to work.

Any suggestions would be really helpful.

 

check the event logs and see if anything is throwing an error, what does it show under device manager for your wireless card?

if you move it really close to your access point does it pick it up?

have you tried reinstalling the drivers?


first i'd look in the event log viewer though, typically any issues should show up there, especially for long boot times.

 

Tried reinstalling the drivers. Doesn't help.
Moving it close to the access point doesn't help.

Device manager lists the card as Intel 5100AGN and does not report an problems.

I just noticed that in Network Connections, the Wireless network was disabled. I tried enabling it several times but it has no effect. It just stays disabled. The LAN connection is working fine.

Where do I check the event logs?