Rampage IV BE wireless stopped working

[Pixels]

Hi crew
Wireless was working brilliantly [full signal] one minute, then suddenly nothing - red x on sys tray icon - no connections are available.
I know my router's wireless is working ok, I have a Epson wireless printer and it still connects and works.
Tried uninstalling driver with delete software option and reinstalling but no diff. Tried full power off and restart - nope.
All ip settings were left on automatic.

win7 sp1 x64 with all updates and latest drivers from asus web
board came with bios 0507


btw the smiley's on this forum are a bit washed out looking - webmaster??

[Pixels]

Well this has got me foxed! I took the whole machine to where I bought the m/b and it worked ok for them. [facepalm!]
Took it back home and nope - still not working for me. So I plugged up a pcmcia wireless card into my old gateway laptop to see if it could find the router and it worked fine.
I went back to the troubled asus machine only to discover that it was now finding my network along with all the other networks in my neighbourhood.

Clicked connect, entered the key in again [no doubt because I had previously deleted the driver] and all is fine again????? wtf!!
The router is a billion 7800 vdox.

I'm very confident it's not the billion router, it wasn't just not finding my network, it couldn't find anyone's network and there's always at least 3 or 4 others transmitting ssid at any one time.

[xxserilviaxx]

I have the exact same problem. posted earlier with no response /:
Mine like yours does just not find any of the existing routers around me.
It started out with there getting some latency issues that night and eventually it just shut down the connection and reported a static IP failure from the routers side. After that it wouldn't find anything.
But if i take it to my friends place there are no problems.
And my sister can connect to our router just fine aswell.
Mine at one point also showed that it was connected to my router but without internet connection and it couldnt find anything on the list but there still was a connection...

[Pixels]

Pixels wrote:

Took it back home and nope - still not working for me. So I plugged up a pcmcia wireless card into my old gateway laptop to see if it could find the router and it worked fine.
I went back to the troubled asus machine only to discover that it was now finding my network along with all the other networks in my neighbourhood.

This may not be entirely correct. I may have not waited long enough or I mistook the happy star for the cross of death on the sys tray icon.
In any event, after many more tests the problem is still there and the only way to make it work again is to remove power completely from the computer [pull the plug].
Asus, any clue as to what the problem might be??

[Pixels]

Wow, just read your thread and sounds like very much the same issue.
So you have set up a static ip in the router for the asus m/c? I've left mine on dhcp.
Mines still ok atm, but sure is a weird problem. What brand/model router do you have?

[Pixels]

Mine has done same thing again and I've homed in on the problem a bit.
Things I tried:
1. Switch off router - still no [nearby] connections
2. Router still off + restart asus - no connections
3. Router still off + power down asus and reboot - no connections
4. Router still off + power down asus + remove power plug for a few mins then reboot - now finds all nearby neighbourhood routers - all ok again.
Switch my router back on again, asus finds it and auto re-connects no problem.

Being a htpc, I'm only putting my m/c to sleep at night
I now have another batch of tests to run next time it does it.

[Pixels]

I've checked for router firmware updates [billion 7800vdox] and there are a few.
I read with interest this line in the release notes of one update:
"Workaround for WLAN issue -- Wifi devices can't be reconnected after a period."
hmmm...the plot thickens.

[Pixels]

Pixels wrote:
I've checked for router firmware updates [billion 7800vdox] and there are a few.
I read with interest this line in the release notes of one update:
"Workaround for WLAN issue -- Wifi devices can't be reconnected after a period."
hmmm...the plot thickens.

Nope, that didn't change anything.
This time I did 5 full power off - cold restarts and it would not find any networks. Only when I did a full power off AND switched off the psu for 30 secs or so, did it then start to work properly again.
No wonder it worked for the computer shop! The one thing I did not try before taking it to them....... murphy moves in mysterious ways!!!

My previous mb [intel dx79sr] with it's own usb wireless did not have this problem on the same router.

[xxserilviaxx]

I shouldnt have a static IP in the settings but it found some IP issues appearently.
It must have confused the router with the buggy connection and then have just settled on that error and left it at that x) But can't be sure.

Using a wire atm and if I do need to take out ALL connections around me then I'm a bit screwed o:

[Pixels]

Some more testing needed to prove this conclusively, but so far it seems that if the computer is left on, the problem does not occur, but if the computer is put to sleep for a while, then on resume it will immediately have the error 'no connections available'