Issues connecting to E2500 wireless

Hello everyone,
Out of nowhere it seems my E2500 wireless router decided that it didn't want to work anymore so it gave out. I did a few things and managed to get the hardline connection to the router working, but the wifi itself doesn't want to cooperate. All my wireless connected devices are able to recognize the wireless signal but are unable to connect to it, no password prompts or anything.
On a side note, I turned on the guest wifi from the router settings and that works perfectly, but the main wireless connection doesn't.
Any help solving my problem would be greatly appreciated. If you need more info let me know.

I recommend:
Change the SSID for both the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz; and have no special characters and spaces in them.
Have different SSID for 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz.
Set 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz to WPA2 security and a password which has no special characters and spaces.
Set 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz channel to "auto"
Set 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz channel width to "auto"
Set 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz protocol to "mixed"
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Unable to Connect After iOS Update - saw this solution on another post.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4010130?tstart=60
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If any of the above solutions work, please post back what solved your problem. It will help others with the same problem.
 Cheers, Tom

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