Troubles connecting to wireless network

[Rossco]

Yesterday my internet was working fine, all was going peachy then suddenly the connection started to drop, and it kept happening. I've tried doing one of them system restore jobs and nothing, re-installed the wireless card drivers and software for it. Pure pissing me off along with the fact that it works fine on other PCs in the house so its deffo my PC that is the problem.

And even when it does stay connected for a while, its not at full speed and usually crawls along and wont let me connect to Live either.

Any ideas of other things to try to fix this?

[Rossco]

And now it wont even go on, brings up an "Error loading OS" message!

God knows why this stuff happens to me all the time, I'm just after spending like £400 on this PC and its ****ed already, totally fed up with PC's, I have nothing but trouble with them all the time even though I run them perfectly and don't have dodgy programs or anything on them. Gonna need to try and do a repair on Windows tomorrow and see if that at least lets me boot it up so I can get back to fixing the other problem with the network!

What does error loading OS even mean, when does that happen as the HDD is connected and being detected properly? So from when I turned it off 30 minutes ago with only the wireless card not working, and trying to put it on now, something major has happened and it wont load? I just dont get it!

[MarioMark]

I feel your pain mate. I ended up shutting shop and getting a laptop. PC's are the most unreliable things in the world. Worse than cars!

[themanwithapc]

Does it boot up into safe mode? Best thing to do is to just do a clean reinstall and be done with it. I assume you're using Vista? It's an absolute nightmare getting things to run properly on it, as I've found out repeatedly.

[Pavey]

Mark and Ross, can i just ask why you use Windows/have a PC anyway? As opposed to a Mac?

Are there programs you use that you can't get for OSX?

Do you play games on them?

Just curious really. Every now and again i have to go to my neighbours and sort her Dell out, and it literally brings me close to tears, so i know what you mean.

[themanwithapc]

Mark and Ross, can i just ask why you use Windows/have a PC anyway? As opposed to a Mac?

Are there programs you use that you can't get for OSX?

Do you play games on them?

Just curious really. Every now and again i have to go to my neighbours and sort her Dell out, and it literally brings me close to tears, so i know what you mean.

I was going to suggest a Mac at first, but it doesn't really do much for poor Rossco at the moment with his problem, short of stumping up ?600 for a new Mac.

Other than that, yes, Macs are brilliant, especially if you use your computer for general things like surfing, office, photo/ video editing, media. Hell, even if you need it for a couple of particular programs, just install windows on the machine and be done with it.

[smouty]

Hell, even if you need it for a couple of particular programs, just install windows on the machine and be done with it.

or Parallels and run XP in a VM without leaving OSX

If you maintain your PC well, be it Windows or Mac they are as reliable as each other as I use both.
My experience though shows that recent intel based Apple hardware is frightening unreliable so if you do buy one make sure you get the extended warranty

[ascender]

Could be wrong, but I think that error is because your BIOS has lost the settings or got the wrong setting for the HDD? Or maybe the mbr has become corrupted?

Check out the settings for the HDD in the BIOS. Can you get to recovery console and see if the machine can still see the C: drive, that would confirm it?

Google is quite useful for this sort of error if you put the exact error in with "" to see about possible solutions. I've gone over to Macs too I'm afraid, so can't be much more help.

[Rossco]

Yeah I could get to recovery console so the drive was being recognised but I just wiped it and started again! Couldnt be bothered arsing about anymore. I'm just gonna make sure I back everything up like 5 times in future. Have 3 HD's so I keep nothing of importance on the Windows install one!