Ralink RT61 WiFi Lan card, windows 7 not receiving any wifi signals

Hello,

I have recently bought a new pci wifi lan card (Ralink rt61 turbo) and have plugged in and installed drivers. Initially the drivers the company I bought it from told me to install didn't work, but after some googling found the correct drivers and downloaded from Ralinks website. However these didn't work either.

When using the Ralink wireless utility it says that the card is disconnected, however in device manage it is both connect and the correct drivers installed and everything is perfectly fine.

I ignored the wireless utility and hoped that windows 7 would still be able to use the wireless card as past experiences have shown to be true. This case however I get nothing. Windows 7 says that the wireless card is experiencing problems, it doesn't show any of the routers that should be shown.

I have been looking around a lot and there have been several drivers that should have worked and they haven't.

I would have thought that the antenna is broken or the card doesn't work however when I use it with ubuntu instead of windows 7 it works perfectly fine without any hassle, so the card is definitely working.

Any advice that anyone can give on how to resolve this would be very welcome.

Thanks

Aieden

Have a look at this thread.

http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/31304-ralink-rt61-turbo-wireless-driver.html

I have already friend that one, but tried it again and still nothing, tbh I'm completely stumped.

I don't recall the brand, but I once had to manually install just the drivers, and let Windows handle the connections and searching. You could give that a shot, at the very least it would eliminate the utility as the issue.