laptop wireless problem

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12-08-2008, 02:27 AM
Lukie

laptop wireless problem

Weird.. I have an HP laptop that's about a year old. I've never had any problems with it until recently.

Basically I'd just use it casually in front of the TV and I'd go days if not weeks without ever rebooting it. Every once in a while It would freeze up and I'd have to power down, power up. The last time I did that, it rebooted and now the interwebs don't work on it!

I'm using vista.. when I use the "connect to" feature, it says Windows cannot find any networks (at least 4-5 should be available, including mine). When I diagnose why, it says "This computer does not have a wireless network adapter installed and configured".

I went through all the BS steps it has (connected the laptop through an ethernet cord) including doing all the updates and installing all the drivers it wanted me to, but I still get the same stupid message.

Anybody have any other ideas? I'm kind of clueless right now to be honest.
12-08-2008, 02:41 AM
Lukie

also, this is a couple week old problem if that is of any significance (most likely not)
12-08-2008, 09:58 PM
ChrisBCritter

Did you accidently trip the manual switch for the wireless? There should be an external switch for it somewhere on the perimeter of the laptop.
12-08-2008, 10:02 PM
UG

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Originally Posted by ChrisBCritter

Did you accidently trip the manual switch for the wireless? There should be an external switch for it somewhere on the perimeter of the laptop.

lol, I did this once and was one tilted mofo until I figured out I was a dumbass
12-08-2008, 10:14 PM
bigred

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Originally Posted by UG

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisBCritter

Did you accidently trip the manual switch for the wireless? There should be an external switch for it somewhere on the perimeter of the laptop.

lol, I did this once and was one tilted mofo until I figured out I was a dumbass

ur a pretty cool dumbass though, dumbass
12-08-2008, 11:35 PM
UG

:heart: bigred

p.s. Lukie is teh retard. Hi Lukie.
12-09-2008, 12:08 AM
badandy519

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Originally Posted by ChrisBCritter

Did you accidently trip the manual switch for the wireless? There should be an external switch for it somewhere on the perimeter of the laptop.

Either this or Windows Update could have grabbed you a new wireless driver if you allow automatic updates or something.

You can either try uninstalling the wireless device through control panel/system/device manager and reboot, or just roll back the driver, or use system restore to go back to whenever you know it was working for sure.
12-09-2008, 07:21 PM
BigBadBull

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Originally Posted by badandy519

Either this or Windows Update could have grabbed you a new wireless driver if you allow automatic updates or something.

You can either try uninstalling the wireless device through control panel/system/device manager and reboot, or just roll back the driver, or use system restore to go back to whenever you know it was working for sure.

what he said. my laptop does the same thing sometimes when you reboot after an update. I just system restore it to whenever it worked last and get the update a few days later.
Don't know why it works when you get the same update few days later tho, but who cares, it works! :D