Dad's HP laptop not connectiong properly to new router
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May I first state some important details.
This laptop is 2 years and 1 month old. It used to be mine before the GPU pooped out.
It's an HP Pavilion dv5 1125nr.
Runs Vista that has strange glitches.
Has motherboard issues that were caused by the broken GPU.
CD drive does not work properly. (Can only read music CDs and fails to autorun install CDs)
This thing has always.... ALWAYS. Had network card issues and problems with connecting to networks. I've fixed them but this one has stumped me.
Now for the story....
We just got a new router. This is the one.
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124388&cm_re=linksys_wireless_router-_-33-124-388-_-Product[/url]
Everything worked fine with all the other computers. I had no issues putting in the passwords and the like and connecting with them.
When I click to diagnose and repair, it says "Cannot communicate with Primary DNS." or something like that and gives the IP, etc.
I've tried everything. Changing encryption types, rebooting 50 million times, disabling and re-enabling the wireless card thing a few times, reinstalling the wireless card drivers approx. 4 times and rebooting each time afterward, making sure I had the right password...
E.Very.Thing.
It just doesn't work.
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
AMD Turion X2 2.6GHz Processor
4 GB RAM
Atheros ar5007eg Wifi Wireless adapter card thinger
I need to sleep so I'll be reading suggestions tomorrow.
Just discuss/type them here.
So does the home network just not show up on the laptop? Do other wireless's work?
Not that many people.
It shows up, it will connect but I just get that DNS error.
I can connect to the "Guest" account for the network, and it works fine. We're using that temporarily.
go to control panel, network and sharing center, change adapter settings (on the left), right click your wifi card -> Properties, click on "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)" (don't uncheck it, just click the text, if it's unchecked, check it) and click the newly enabled Properties button. On the bottom there's a group for DNS. If there's two IPs set there, go back to "Obtain DNS server address automatically"
If that doesn't fix it, set it back to "Use the following DNS server addresses:" and enter these IPs:
8.8.4.4
8.8.8.8
Those are the Google Public DNS IPs, I've had no trouble with them at all.
Mmkay, I'll try that. Thank you.
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