Laptop wifi card issue

[JCDenton_4]

I have a weird issue with my wifi card. I have an intel wifi link 5100 agn on a 3 year old hp dv8t running windows 7 64 bit. recently, the adapter has decided that despite showing that it's working, will not detect networks. It's spotty when it's on, occasionally detecting and then forgetting. however, once I disable and re-enable the adapter, it doesn't detect anything.

Then, I try it on safe mode with networking, and I've had uninterrupted access for 20 minutes now. What should I do? Drivers are fully updated, I've tried rolling them back, and nothing seems to change anything. Any ideas?

[plodr]

It is a card with problems, unfortunately.
Click on the link for suggested settings
http://en.community.dell.com/support.../19449404.aspx

Here is also a long thread from last year with various possible solutions mentioned
http://communities.intel.com/thread/19218