Connection Problem.

After formatting my PC, i was unable to connect to my secured SSID.

error saying, : "The network password needs to be 40bits or 104bits depending on your network configurations. This can be entered as 5 or 13 ascii characters or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters. "

Strangely my laptop is able to connect, secured and unsecured.

Upon comparison, I found that under the SSID properties > Wireless Network Key, I was able to select "WPA-PSK" for the network authentication as well as "TKIP" for Data Encrytion.

These settings were however not been able to select on my PC.

Please advice. Thanks

 

After you formatted your PC what OS and version did you install?
If it was XP you will need to be on service pac 2 or later before it will play nice with WPA wireless encryption.

 

That looks like you may have a neighbours unsecured network available as well as your secured wireless network (or yours is the unsecured network and your neighbours is the secured one).

 

not quite possible. Firstly SSID name. Secondly, signal strenght. I'm running on XP pro SP2.

Problem was solved though after a $50 damage to get a plug and play wifi card.

 

Was it a bad WiFi adapter or was it a driver issue for the existing adapter after the format?

 

This is the problem that puzzles me, surely there wasn't anything wrong with the wireless card as I'm able to connect to non secured wifi. Driver wise, if its wrong or faulty, I wouldn't be able to get it working in the first place right?

The main problem is being able to connect only to non secured wifi.