I did try turning off the router and the modem. It made no difference. The only thing that did anything was when I installed the driver, for the two minutes it saw the networks and it connected to where i could get on my blog page. But then it died again and insisted it saw no networks. It still doesn't see any. But when it comes out of stand by, it says it sees an "unidentified" network and is connected with limited connectivity. But when you check into that, there really is no network listed and it can't surf. So it's sort of ghosting it.

I tried installing a few wifi tools like Netcrawler and Vistumbler and neither of those are seeing any networks. So the card is just plain not picking up any wireless networks from anywhere.

There is nothing bad showing in a Vista hardware scan, but, when I ask it to repair this connection is does admit there could be a problem with the adapter. I've tried turning the adapter off and on, I've tried disabling the card and reenabling it. Nothing is getting it to see a wireless network. And I reinstalled the driver for the card, plus the LAN drivers, like any driver that had anything to do with the net.

I think the antennae on the card isn't working anymore. Or something is loose in it or it just plain went bad.

I did order a USB wireless, but I'm still leaning toward getting someone to look at this, mainly because I want to make sure nothing else inside it is going bad. It could also be as simple as something being loose, but I don't want to be the one opening it up. It's too hard to get all the screws off and pull everything apart just to get at this one thing. I'm better off having someone do it.