A wireless link between a one year old Dell desktop machine with a Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter and a D-Link wireless router has worked well, apart from an occasional reboot when the power supply was interrupted, until Saturday when it declined to make a connection. History and key symptoms are:
- First sign of trouble was when the machine was switched on on Saturday morning, it started to boot up then turned itself off and rebooted indefinitely (Windows Automatic update would have run on Fiday morning at 9am ad the machine stayed on until that night so Saturday would have been the first time that update was used)
- I resotored the system to a previous state and the reboot problem went away
- The wireless connection would not establish a link
- The wireless adapter appears normal in the Vista Network Management Centre with a strong signal, up to 100%
- Clicking on the connection and the Connect button has no effect
- The router has been restarted several times and the PC even more
- Three other PCs, one on Vista and two on XP, and a pocket PC can still connect via the D-Link router wireless connection as normal
- A new wireless USB adapter, a D-Link model bought in case the Belkin had died, exhibits the same behaviour, a strong signal but declkining to establish a conenction
- Running ipconfig shows the wireless adapter and other connections with "Media DIsconnected", see attached screen capture
- The Blustooth link used for the keybopard and mouse is working fine
I've searched elsewhere on the web and see others have had similar problems but found no resolution yet although the restart problem has been associated with the latest Vista update in some postings
I've exhausted all the obvious and any insights would be most welcome
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