aao problem! Wifi issue

Ahh help me.. My wlan seems to be broken!

I left my pc on last night installing vista updates and had to rush to work so left it on all day too. Came home from work and went to my pc and it needed restarting so i did. Unfortunately didnt check if i was connected to my wlan.

So i restarted and now i cant find any wireless networks. Strange! So i tried a few things (including flicking the switch lol, uninstalling/reinstalling, disabling/enabling etc). Nothing.

Needed to format and reinstall vista anyway (was going a bit slow and i like keeping things fresh) so i tried that, installed drivers, still nothing.

In device manager it says
"Device cannot start. (Code 10)"

Any ideas what i can do?? Can I fix it? Do i need to send it back to play.com or what?
And will it still be covered by the warranty if i repartition the drive back to how it was and put linux back on it? How long does the warranty last btw?

Thanks for any help!

Lloyd

 

I may be having the same problem. As far as I can tell, I may have left my AAO on for a while and it overheated, frying my wifi. I tried uninstalling some recent software, but noticed that my CPU starts using a lot of mem if the wifi switch is on, but acts fine when it is off. When wifi is on, no networks are detected, and clicking 'repair' gives the message that the wireless could not be repaired due to (trying to remember here...) 'could not connect'. Reinstalling drivers did not fix the problem, but with the wifi drivers uninstalled, my system would no longer lag with the wifi switched to 'enable' (still not working of course).

Anyways I think this means my wifi card is fried. Maybe yours too? Does anyone else know what's going on? I am probably going to get the dell card that is suggested here in forums...