G51 wireless connects starting windows, then disconnects and can't find any networks

Hey there. I've recently been having a strange issue with my g51vx laptop.

It began a week ago after I started the laptop after being turned completely off. It booted up just fine, and connected to my home wireless without issue. When I went to use chrome, chrome tells me that I'm not connected to the Internet. Looking at the wireless icon on the taskbar, it shows the red x through the signal strength bars indicating no available networks.

First thing first, I made sure hardware and software switches at set to on and wireless on respectively. They are. I then ask roommate if his internet is working. It is just fine. I then went to the device manager to see if anything was amiss there. The drivers seem to be
In order. So now I'm getting confused.

On a whim, I try to go on the net using the Asus express gate mini os. It connects to the internet no problem. Starting windows back up gives me the same problem as before.

Using roommates computer, I download the newest version of drivers for the intel agn5100 thinking that the driver went kaput. That didn't fix it. I gVe up for the night there.

The next morning I took it to school and the problem fixed itself. It connected to the wpa at my school and worked perfectly. Hibernating the laptop at school, I brought it home and it worked as well. I then tried rebooting, and the problem returned.

This got me thinking that it was a new issue with the router and my laptop.

Last night I was at a friend's house playing some left 4 dead and my laptop connected no problem. Having to reboot today due to an update meant the problem was back. I came to school to do homework and the problem remains. This is the first time it hasn't "fixed" itself.

Normally I wouldn't be so passive about an issue like this, but I'm getting slammed at school and don't have time to waste dealing with it. But when my lazy man brig it to school to fix it stopped working, I ended up with a completely useless laptop.

Has anyone encountered any issues like this before? I am running windows 7 x64.

Adam

 

Try pressing Fn+F2 to switch the wireless on and off. You can also make sure it's enabled in the wireless console utility that's in the task tray.

 

That was actually the first thin I did, but thanks for the suggestion regardless.

 

It's been some time since I touched windows, so I could be wrong, but I thought a red X on the wireless in Windows 7 means that the adapter is disabled.

It could be some kind of power management problem too. There are a ton of settings if you installed the intel software and not just the driver. Maybe it's a bad setting somewhere.