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<blockquote data-quote="orangecounty1" data-source="post: 7316469" data-attributes="member: 578335">ok i usually don&#039;t have to ask about stuff like this, but i cannot get this one working...a friend of mine has a Compaq presario c500 laptop. had XP on it when i got it, but was all screwed up (virus&#039; etc) so he decided just to reformat. i couldnt do a restore becuase the factory restore partition is vista which he didnt want, so i installed xp. everything works, all drivers are installed, but its gotta be the wrong wireless one. it shows its installed fine, the wireless networks are recognized, but when i go to connect, it either says its out of range, or itll just say &quot;validating network&quot; or something of that sort, and the little gold ball will just stay spinning around on the network icon in the system tray, and never connect.now, thats if the network is protected. if its an unsecured network, itll connect fine. i tethered to my phone and it works. if i encrypt the wireless tether on my phone, itll say its out of range and not connect.what the fk? i&#039;ve never encountered this before. any help will be appreciated, i&#039;ve tried muliple different drivers and searched online and cant find a solution. im about to boot it up now, so ill post the wireless card hardware ID in a minute.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="orangecounty1, post: 7316469, member: 578335"] ok i usually don't have to ask about stuff like this, but i cannot get this one working...a friend of mine has a Compaq presario c500 laptop. had XP on it when i got it, but was all screwed up (virus' etc) so he decided just to reformat. i couldnt do a restore becuase the factory restore partition is vista which he didnt want, so i installed xp. everything works, all drivers are installed, but its gotta be the wrong wireless one. it shows its installed fine, the wireless networks are recognized, but when i go to connect, it either says its out of range, or itll just say "validating network" or something of that sort, and the little gold ball will just stay spinning around on the network icon in the system tray, and never connect. now, thats if the network is protected. if its an unsecured network, itll connect fine. i tethered to my phone and it works. if i encrypt the wireless tether on my phone, itll say its out of range and not connect. what the fk? i've never encountered this before. any help will be appreciated, i've tried muliple different drivers and searched online and cant find a solution. im about to boot it up now, so ill post the wireless card hardware ID in a minute. [/QUOTE]

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