Although it did have about 14 or 15 reboots. And I remembered to turn it off and disconnect the battery when I re-seated the adaptor.
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Opened it up to check seating and clean contacts
It's irritating that Asus have built a wifi board specifically for the laptop, with a bloody earphone jack on it. On the other hand, if they hadn't done that I don't suppose I would have persisted and got it working (if I did get it working).
Msconfig seems such a good idea, to be able to selectively disable all kinds of software, but I think it's actually puzzled me far more often than it's cleared up a problem.