Connection without Connection

[Dog Food]

So, my laptop is failing me. It's not even a year old yet. Technically it's my dad's laptop, but I stole it. Anyway, I look at the wireless connections, and I find mine. It has about three bars and looks totally accessible. I try clicking it, and without even attempting to load I get a screen that tells me that I cannot connect, and no diagnosis can be given. Basically, the laptop is just as confused as I am. It can't figure out the problem, it can't connect to any single wireless network (I tried all five in my area), and so therefore I can only get internet on my computer. This computer isn't a laptop, and it is connected to a wireless network that isn't even shown on my laptop.

In fact (and this is the strangest part), this all happened during a Wedding Reception (for lesbians that just got married - and both of my parents are against gay marriages) that we hosted at my house. During the end, I went upstairs to check my laptop, and I had no internet. But, I had some new network choices I had never seen before, one of them being the name of one of the party guests downstairs who had left. So, I can't connect to the internet, and now I have these three foreign networks that I can't connect to either and won't go away.

This is also the reason why I will not be coming by very often. Until my laptop is fixed, I can only get on here for about 20 minutes after school, and on weekends I'm not sure if I'll be able to at all. I don't think many of you know me, or care, so this isn't the big issue and really doesn't deserve much mention. Although I'm participating in a few games and such so I thought I'd like to make that known.

Okay, so, any help? I turned my laptop off this morning, and later today I'll turn it back on and see if that changed anything. Until then, ideas?

[Eizweir]

From my experience with laptops, there are like three different ways to connect to one network, explore a bit.

[HTA!]

I know a good bit about networking.
First off, do you have a router in your house?

Unless you are getting like free public wi-fi, I need to know what kind of router it is and how your computer is connected to it.

Really, I need more info.

Next, you can always manually connect to a network using a new IP Address and whatnot.
What happens to your computer is when you connect to a network, it will save the connection in its stored list of used networks. These are not always accessible, but still show up in the list.

Randomly connecting to whatever you find is a horrible idea, no offense, so you really need to tell me what our connection is from the comp.

[Psilocybin]

buy new laptop wireless card/usb wireless card for 10-20 bucks.
lol.

[HTA!]

buy new laptop wireless card/usb wireless card for 10-20 bucks.
lol.

Doesn't sound like the problem, sounds more like the router does not recognize her computer anymore or some poop like that.