MEGA 865 wireless problem

I cannot not and have never been able to pick up any other wireless networks with my mega 865 mini pci wireless card. I have 3 access points within 5 metres of the pc and it is like the radio does not work or something.
The device says the radio is enabled, i have checked the antenna and it seems to be connected correctly.
Has anyone experienced this before?? or is the device faulty, or am i missing something.... Thanks

Below is something I posted a while back on the Mega 180. Not sure if it applies to the 865 but your problem sounds similar..
The only other tip I can give is to try connecting with and without MS's wireless zero configuration. I don't remember how I ended up on my Mega.... but using a variety of computers and wireless cards...sometimes it works great..... but when it doesn't work it really screws up your configuration... so you need to disable it and try using the wireless config utility that comes with the wireless card.
Good luck....
===================APPEND=================================
I've been goofing around for over a week trying to get the Mega 180 built in wireless to connect to my Netgear access point. It could see a Linksys access point in a neighbors place but not my Netgear when it was 5 feet away.
It turns out that the wireless mini pci card is OEMed from a Taiwan co. called RaLink. The device is the RT2400. I downloaded the Ralink drivers and TA DA..... it worked.
Here is the link to the drivers if anyone else runs into this problem
http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm

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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;885626
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Hi I understand that there are some other threads with the same issue, but I would like to post this thread with a clear subject title.
Here is the problem...
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Ok it has been several days, there are other users with the same problem. I have contacted MSIs customer support, however it seems they have a long turn around time on their replies.
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Atlanta, GA
USA
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I also cannot believe that they sell a Multimedia PC with the MSI Media Suite package that just doesn't work. Any updates? No. Nothing. The MSI Media Suite is meant to be one of the reasons for it costing more than the other MEGA's.
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Hey JavaDuke!
I've got the exact same problem with my Mega180, also running a NEC 2500A! And it is starting to get very annoying...
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