After installing a new router, all devices detected new router ID and successfully connected except windows 8.1 desktop.

[Steve LD]

After installing a new router, all devices (iphones, iPads, televisions, a printer) detected new router ID and successfully connected except windows 8.1 desktop. Interestingly a very old (vista) and unused Dell desktop did detect it and connected yet both desktops use the same network adaptor (802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi ). The desktop is hardly ever used but I really don’t want to be forced into buying a new desktop when it was working perfectly before. I did connect it by Ethernet cable to the router and whilst it established an internet connection, I then kept getting website access issues with T

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