Settings Not Saved; Wireless

[DarqFlare]

Alrighty, I just got a new Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop. I contacted them about this and they told me to repair the XP installation. I don't want to do that, so I came here to get more opinions.

 

Everything about my laptop pretty much works, save for a couple items:

1) It doesn't save the Display and Mouse settings.

2) Sometimes my wireless will disconnect from my router repeatedly for about 20-30 minutes and be fine.

 

As far as the settings go, I've tried to restart, power down then turn on, log off, and switch users. The display never saves. I have to go back into Advanced -> Colors and click "Ok." The settings are there, but I have to go into the dialog box and click "OK" for it to work. This is a Radeon Mobile 7500 32MB card.

 

In addition to this, my laptop never saves my mouse settings. The "lines" setting for scrolling with the wheel is lost and everything else, which is quite annoying.

 

As for the wireless... My laptop was repeatedly disconnecting from my router last night, while another Dell laptop never disconnected from the router during the same time frame. My desktop (Wired) stood connected. My laptop has also repeatedly disconnected from the wireless network at the university I attend.

 

So, any ideas?

[DarqFlare]

Anybody?

 

Update: I'm just returning the built-in wireless miniPCI card and getting a new PCMCIA card...

[boxturt]

I had some similar problems in my kids 1100. Turned out to be the "QuickSet" icon itself. I had removed it from the tray and I guess that was a no-no.

[TCH-Bruce]

Robert,

 

I'd get a copy of TweakUI and try editing your mouse setting with that.

 

For the wireless connection sounds like a bad PCMCIA card.

[Madmanmcp]

Robert, when I had problems with dropped internet it was resolved by a flash upgrade on the router. Check the router web page for updates. Or it could be the card which you are already checking.

 

As far as your settings not sticking I don't know. But a reinstall of XP over the existing can't hurt and it will be quick an simple fix if it works.

[DarqFlare]

- Already tried reinstalling XP. No change.

- I have tried having QuickSet installed and not installed. No changes either way.

- The wireless problems were on more than one network, so flashing the router probably won't have an effect (Especially since it's already on the newest firmware).

- The mouse settings are sticking with the new Synaptics drivers.

 

My new DLink PCMCIA card is 1337. It still has some problems with the UNLV CoE Wireless network, but everybody is having those problems.

 

Others with my similar Display problems said TweakUI did nothing and the settings didn't apply on boot.