More of the Wireless Broadband Malfunction
Okay, so after installing the 83 MB Nvidia gforce 6150 driver on my dv2120us, the wireless card worked until i shut down the laptop. After I re-opened it, I had problems. This time the wireless switch stays red instead of blue, and no wireless card is detected; once again, the broadcom wireless card has disappeared. Low and behold, HP update didn’t show anything, but windows update did, a 33 MB driver for the same Nvidia card. So i updated with that. No luck! But once again, the HP Update driver shows up again, and I have to re-install to make that shit work! I had heard of such problems with vista beta on HP laptops, but you would think both Microsoft and HP would have resolved the issue by now. Maybe it’s time to revert back to Windows XP Media Center Edition.
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April 27th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Okay, if you extract the SP34488 download from the HP site for the Wireless Broadcom LAN NIC to your c:\SwSetup\SP34488A, just use the is.exe application file in that folder to install the driver. Then reboot your machine, and that will apparently resolve the Vista cum Broadcom Wireless LAN issue every time. And for this to function you need to have the SP34747 driver installed for the Nvidia Gforce 6150. I think this will work for the dv2000 and 6000 series with AMD Processors.
June 11th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
But isnt it to boring to have to execute that is.exe every time you turn on your laptop? there must be another easy way.
June 11th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Even that’s not a permanent fix, my friend. It’s defetive hardware. Only way to fix it is to get it replaced from HP.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:56 am
I really don’t know exactly how I did it but I was able to fix this on my hp6353 notebook after about 2 or more months of fiddling with it every other day. I agree , with everybody here was a combination one two punch from the makers of both hardware and software leaving everybody out to hang. When I finnally found a way to keep the driver showing up in the device manager, I kept fooling around with a combination of sfc scannow and such other vista repair options, but finally I thought I had it on a chase and I was right, the blasted computer started making all kinds of really funky sounds emminating from the direction of the broadcom hardware. then it stuck. I had to then keep turning the laptop on and off again almost like trying to park the hard drive because If I didn’t do that it would keep making this unbelievable racket the shut itself off. Well anyway when that finnally seemed to park correctly and then restarted a few times…. it stopped making that racket and the wireless is working correctly now.
Now if I go to the microsoft site update , it has options to update the broadcom and some other crap. I won’t do that test yet until I have some good testing the way it is. Good luck to you all , summary is I think it is both a hardware and driver screw up but you will make it work if you are persistent on the obsesive degree.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
If you decide to send your laptop to HP to repair the wireless problem, when you get it back DO NOT update the bios. I sent mine in for repair and when I got it back it worked fine for almost 6 months, until the HP update popped onscreen with a bios update. After I updated the bios the wireless problem started all over again. I gave up and ended up buying a usb wireless dongle that solved the problem for me.
March 24th, 2008 at 3:51 am
I have been having the same exact problem that is described above. When this first started happening, i contacted hp through their chat customer service. They told me to download the driver updates off their website and update the bios. This did not work. I have been messing around with the settings and rolling back the drivers when i got the chance but none of this fixed the issue permanatly. If i restarted my computer, it would work sometimes and then go off or vice versa. My newest theory on why this happens is that it has something to do with the laptop overheating. We all no that these laptops shut off when they got to hot. One day i turned on my laptop and the wireless was working… then after about a few hours it dissappeared and my computer shut itself off immediatly. WTF? i quickly tried to turn it back on and the wireless did not work. Then after about an hour and a half of letting the laptop sit and cool off i turned it back on and the wirless was working fine. could this be happening becuase of the heat inside the laptop?
March 24th, 2008 at 5:21 am
I’m sure that heating has a part to play in it. However, the issue is ultimately about defentive hardware, even if it is caused by heating up.
But I haven’t necessarily seen the corelation between heating and the disappearance of the wireless card. It vanishes because of some kind of a conflict between the the broadcom hardware and the motherboard, which hp and broadcom have apparently been unable to resolv.e