My wireless card disappeared after installing a new solid state drive. The drive is the OS drive so I needed to reinstall everything from scratch. Everything seemed okay until I installed the driver / uti for the wireless and it kept saying to connect the wireless adapter.
It’s a pci slot card and has always worked fine up until now. There are no lights showing up on the card at all. I had a look inside and even took out the card and replaced it but it looked fine. It doesn’t show up in the device manager.
My details are as follows:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-G31MF-S2
Graphics: XFX 9600gt
Wireless card: TP-Link TL-WN951N (latest driver)
Core2Duo e8400
Memory: DDR II 4gb
Windows 7 64bit
SSD: Sandisk SDSSDX-240G-G25 240gb . Don’t know if I need drivers or firmware for this. I found the product page but no drivers:
So for an update. I transferred the drivers from the old hdd to the new ssd using a driver transfer program called DriverMax. DriverMax was excellent and I transferred over all my drivers and after replacing the SSD the wireless card started up again. So it was an issue with the newer driver from the TP Link website. For some reason the original driver from the cd worked much better. So you see downloading the latest drivers isn’t the be all and end all of fixes.
If anyone’s interested in DriverMax you can find more info here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind…
It makes restoring a computer after hdd format a lot smoother.