I can no longer use my wireless Utility, I have an Advent laptop with
built in wireless using "Ralink Wireless LAN Card"

After installing the previous update 10/09/2008 The icon for my Ralink
card is now blacked out, if I hover my mouse over it I get the
information "Ralink Wireless LAN Card" and underneath "Not Exist" thus I
can no longer connect to wireless networks etc

My laptop is fairly new only bought it a month ago

Advent
Windows Vista Home Premium 32Bit
Pentium Dual core CPU
2GB Ram

etc etc

Any help would be appreciated and if you could email it to me @
I would be greatful, thanks (:


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Swifty1303

Swifty1303 wrote:


I can no longer use my wireless Utility, I have an Advent laptop with
built in wireless using "Ralink Wireless LAN Card"

After installing the previous update 10/09/2008 The icon for my Ralink
card is now blacked out, if I hover my mouse over it I get the
information "Ralink Wireless LAN Card" and underneath "Not Exist" thus I
can no longer connect to wireless networks etc

My laptop is fairly new only bought it a month ago

Advent
Windows Vista Home Premium 32Bit
Pentium Dual core CPU
2GB Ram

etc etc

Any help would be appreciated and if you could email it to me @
I would be greatful, thanks (:



Sorry, no free email support. And now that you've posted your full, unmunged
email address on Usenet, you've opened yourself up to more spam. See this
link for how to munge an email address in future.

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address

You forgot to tell us what the latest update was. As a guess, you installed
a driver from Windows Update. If this is the case, either roll back the
wireless adapter driver or reinstall it from a driver CD that came with
your laptop or get it from the laptop mftr.'s website. See below for
general drivers information.

The First Law of Driver Updates is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Normally if everything is working you want to leave things as they are. The
exception is that heavy-duty gamers will usually want to update their video
and sound drivers to squeeze every last bit of performance out of the
hardware to get the fastest frame rates. If you're not one of those people,
you don't need to update your drivers if there are no problems you are
trying to solve.

Never get drivers from Windows Update. Get them from:

1. The device mftr.'s website; OR
2. The motherboard mftr.'s website if hardware is onboard; OR
3. The OEM's website for your specific machine if you have an OEM computer
(HP, Dell, Sony, etc.).

Read the installation instructions on the website where you get the drivers.

To find out what hardware is in your computer:

1. Read any documentation you got when you bought the computer.
2. If the computer is OEM, go to the OEM's website for your specific model
machine and look at the specs (you'll be there to get the drivers anyway)
3. Download, install and run a free system inventory program like Belarc
Advisor or System Information for Windows.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html - Belarc Advisor
http://www.gtopala.com/ - System Information for Windows

If you have installed drivers from Windows Update, you can roll them back:

Roll Back Troublesome Device Drivers in Windows Vista from the How-To Geek -
http://tinyurl.com/346lox

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

Check if the device drivers are properly installed or not. Try to
re-install the drivers. If that also fails then either uninstall the
update which was done. Or try to do a system restore.


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tanuj_chadha

Tanuj

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. - Karl
Marx :geek: