Dear Acer Community and Support,
I am using an Acer Aspire V3 771G model notebook that I bought around 2 years ago from Finland. It has Windows 8 installed on it since the time I bought it. It also uses the Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB222 model wifi/bluetooth component i believe with the 10.0.0.225 drivers. I have been getting along with it quite well since recently. My Wifi connection started acting up like turning off and on back after some time passes. So I went ahead and checked up the users that were having various problems with that, they all reinstalled their drivers and it seemed to fix the problem was what they stated. So I decided to reinstall mine as well I don't know what I was thinking then but I did uninstall the drivers from the device manager which might be a mistake. I then visited Acer's download page for the drivers and got the -263 driver which is more recent and wanted to install that instead, It asked me again for a second time to uninstall the drivers (since I didn't uninstall it completely before I guess, I don't know), and I did so and then reinstalled it. After It finished It asked me to restart and I went and restarted the computer. But after that I noticed that there is no networks found on the networks section at the taskbar.I tried uninstalling it properly then and reinstalled it restarting each time of course. Problem remained even if I installed the old drivers. So I panicked and did a system restore (which was from the start>general>advanced startup since the one at control panel doesn't work "due to my firewall" as it says might be due to DEP - no idea on that also -) and restored to a point which is 4 days before that day. It looked ok but I believed the problem with disconnection might still persist so I did the correct reinstallation that time but same thing happened again and no networks was found. Now I can't restore the pc to that point again since the restore point got removed somehow and I am stuck with its current state as it is now. Can anyone help out with that, what should i do to solve this issue that I have in my hands now, it got me confused a lot. Can this be due to DEP or my Antivirus/Firewall (Zone-Alarm is installed on it now) perhaps? I don't want to lose my current data and want to preserve the pc as it is if possible. Many thanks in advance.
P.S. The reason for me to uninstall the drivers via device manager was to install the unofficial drivers from here: https://www.atheros.cz/atheros-wireless-download.php?chipset=74&system=7 but it said the drivers are for another system than Windows 8 but it is for Windows 8 which is what the site on the link says?! Can anyone confirm this drivers are for Windows 8 or the site is a legitimate/trustable one? If so may I install this whql drivers manually by any chance?