I am operating on an Alienware Area 51m 5500. Laptop is a little under a month old... Well... I guess I'll state my problem then list all the details.

I am connected with Wireless. I was connected fine up until a little over an HOUR ago when I was disconnected. Now, I am used to the wireless going down for a second then coming back up, but when I checked to see if it was reconnecting, I noticed the little red X's over my Wireless icon. I clicked on it to have the Window pop up to tell me that my Wireless was OFF. I clicked the little drop-down box and selected ON. Then, to my surprise, I got a pop up box stating the following: "The Intel PRO/Wireless Network Connection is still DISABLED. Use your hardware switch to enable it." That's never happened before. So I clicked Help? and went through every possible troubleshooting multiple-choice question on my problem, only to get to the end and Troubleshooting can't help me. So I run upstairs to hop on another computer in the house and search for answers. I tried Turning off Wireless Zero Configuration because I read that it gives some people problems. No luck. I tried doing a system restore. Still no dice. I restarted several times hoping my wireless would be restored on start-up. Still no internet for me.

So um.. can someone help me? Please?

Processor: Intel® Celeron® M 370 1.5GHz 1MB L2 Cache 400MHZ FSB
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 with Service Pack 2
Motherboard: Alienware® Intel® 915GM + ICH6 Chipset
Memory: 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 533MHz - 2 x 256MB
Hard Drive: 40GB 5400 RPM ATA100
Intel Wireless 2200 b/g


I am also one of four computers on this connection. We have Comcast Cable Internet and use a Linksys Wireless-G BROADBAND Router Model: MRT54G


I would contact Alienware pronto as you are still under warranty.Yeah, I EMAILED them before I posted. I also tried posting on their board and doing the whole messenger type help. No one answered. I got an email response saying they'd get back to me in 24 hours. Sigh. Some Tech support. I'm thinking I may just call my friend who works for Geek Squad. Might be my best bet.Why not a phone call? :-?