Do you have any security settings enabled on the router.  Which make and model router is it?  If you are using MAC address filetering, for example, on some routers, you will need to enter the MAC address of both the ethernet adapter and the wireless adapter before either will be able to connect.   If you are running WEP or WPA encryption on the router, then you will need to enter the proper WEP or WPA hex key on the configuration of the wireless adapter before the wireless adapter will be able to connect.  As a troubleshooting step, you may want to disable all of the security features on the router to see if that is what is causing the problem.  

Right now your ipconfig output is showing that your wireless adapter is not communicating with the router.   Since you only posted a partial output, some of the information that might be helpful is not present.

Steve

windows ip configuration

host name:  zach-yh2ktf708j

primary dns suffix : (blank)

Node type: unknown

iprouting enables : no

wins proxy enabled: no

Ethernet adapter wireless network connection 3

connection specific dns suffix: (blank)

description: Dell wireless 1350 wlan mini-pci card

physical address: 00-90-96-c3-f2-47

dhcp enabled: yes

autoconfig: yes

autoconfig IP address: 169.245.5.2

Subnet mask:  255.255.0.0

Default Gateway: (blank)

My router has no securities enabled that i know of.  There is no log on or anything like that.  I can tell just by looking at that autoconfigured ip address that there is something wrong, because it is supposed to be 192.168.1.103(4).  Aside from just pluggin the numbers into the network connection what can i do to change that.  I would rather fix it than just cover it up.

Both of those IP address are autoconfiguration IP addresses which is what Windows assigns when it can't get an IP address from the dhcp server (in your case, the router) and neither will work for connecting to the internet.  Did you check on the possiblity that a firewall is blocking the connection?

Steve 

I'm sorry, I still don't understand what you are saying.  When you say "The drive was formatted before i posted this message", which message are you referrinig to - your initial message or some later message?

Steve

I'm not sure what you are saying here.  After reformatting the drive and reinstalling Windows, are you saying that it now works?  If it doesn't work, did you install the chipset drivers as the first drivers installed after the Windows reinstallation.  Once the chipset drivers are installed, you should be able to install the drivers for both network adapters.  Please clarify your previous message.

Steve

Let's see if your DHCP Client service is running.  Go to Start > Run and type services.msc  then hit the Enter key.  Find the DHCP Client service in the list and double click on it.  Make sure it is set to start automatically and is started.  Then click on the Dependencies tab and make sure that all of these services are also set to start automatically.  Let me know what you find.

Steve