I have a wireless network set up to an Open WEP connection. It's set up with multiple computers connected to a wireless router. It worked fine until I tried to upgrade my computer with better hardware. I got a new motherboard, the ASRock G43Twins-FullHD, and other hardware too. I kept the same Wireless adapter, the U.S. Robotics Wireless 5417 PCI adapter. As soon as I install all the new stuff, among a lot of other things, my wireless connection broke. It will start to connect, and tell me the connection strength and speed, but hangs at either "connecting to wireless network" or "setting IP address," and sets itself to a default XP 169 address (my network should be a 192 address). I've spent probably around 25 hours by now trying different things to fix it, but I just can't figure out the problem! So far I got a MAC address changer, changed it to multiple random ones, then a MAC address I knew worked, and no dice. I reinstalled the wireless drivers many times, changed the settings to default to XP, changed to a USB wireless adapter, and rebooted many times in between. I've reinstalled Windows twice, and got a stronger antenna for the adapter. I downloaded a program to fix the TCP/IP, and manually set the IP address to that of another computer in my network. I've tried everything I can think of, and I'm stumped! I really like my quad core cpu, and would terribly hate it if I couldn't use the motherboard I bought for it. Can you guys help me? I think it's either the motherboard or the router, but I also tried connecting to another network in range (one without any authentication) and it did the same thing; So I think it could be the motherboard? Thanks in advance for any help/advice!
Wireless Woes...
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