Comments on: More of the Wireless Broadband Malfunction

By: Asif

Asif — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:48:02 +0000

Okay, Temp, Aidtya, there’s really nothing you can do but call and ask for a replacement.

Whoever tells you it is a driver issue is full of shit. The light is blue because that’s what it was when the driver was last detected. At some point if you restart it may turn red too. Defective hardware means a replacement, or you use a USB wireless ethernet card.

By: Temp

Temp — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:57:08 +0000

HP Tablet TX1260ea

Went for screen and motherboard repairs came back a couple of days ago and now the wireless wont work!! Light shows blue so I’m told its a ‘driver’ issue and not a hardware problem. Spoke to techie guys and they said restore back to factory settings. I have too much data to just do this willy nilly as a testing ground for hp’. HELP PLZ

By: aditya

aditya — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:37:37 +0000

hi i just bought hp dv9646em, an i am having wireless problems as it does not detact any wirless network.please help!!

By: nick_knack

nick_knack — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:37:29 +0000

I “think” i “may” have fixed this permanently, for myself. Heres the story:

For some reason or another my laptop suddenly decided to refuse to start up, instead, flashing a blue screen at me as soon as windows loaded, (not long enough to read), and then rebooting. After muddling about for a while trying safe mode and chkdsk from the recovery disk to no avail, i went into the bois and tried reseting everything to default. While going about and looking at what had changed i realized that in the boot options the network adapters part was set to [Disabled]. I changed that a voila! it works again! however i dont know if it will last. other thingsi have done that fixed it have lasted, at best, 1 day. Hope that helps!

By: Ysrael

Ysrael — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:06:05 +0000

(NOTE to the guys at the RIAA: when I wrote the word “Flintstone” not for a single second I thought of the song, nor the tune or any of its parts, also I was not using the word as trying to make any profit from it and I didn’t distributed any related memorabilia or asked anybody to do so)

By: Ysrael

Ysrael — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:27 +0000

Well regarding the webcam it workd by installing an updated driver directly from HP (I used to have the very same problem) now, going back to the wifi: I have found that only after I turn off the laptop (with the usual Turn Off option from the Start menu) and living it alone the suficient time to allow the HDD to stop properly, when I turn on the machine again, it recognizes the broadcom card and it keeps working perfectly throughout the day; ok now the downside:

if i have to put the machine into hibernation or stand by because I need to commute or change places, it will dissapear on the 90% of the ocassions so, I had to put to work a “Flintstone” technique: bought a usb wifi from Linksys (yes the guys that DO actually know how to make things work) and use it as a backup

Also, if you ever need a laptop while yours is on service, you need to tell the people at service that you need it and they will find one for you in order to keep you “working”

By: Asif

Asif — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:49:51 +0000

It depends on whether they have the parts in stock or not. If they do, no more than two weeks. If they don’t, even they don’t know.

By: cvwiz

cvwiz — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:39:03 +0000

I’ve found that the problem isn’t going away, but holding down the start button at start for at least 10 counts seems to help. “Restarting” wasn’t working at all. On someone’s suggestion on this blog I tried holding down the start button, and that got my wireless back. I’m not able to hold it down for more than 10 seconds on my unit without it shutting down down again. My built-in camera often doesn’t work in much the same way as the wireless. If my computer’s been on for a long time it just stops detecting that the camera is there. I need to send it in to repair these problems. How long does HP usually take to make repairs? I will do it in LA this summer. Does anyone have any idea?

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:35:05 +0000

Thanks Asif.

Holding the button down for 30 seconds and taking the battery and power supply out worked for my friend’s dv2120us laptop (Windows XP). Before, her internet would only work right after she fully reboots her computer to the factory default settings. If she shut off her computer and turned it back on, her WLAN would disappear from her computer entirely. Once again, thanks again

By: Ysrael

Ysrael — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:59:04 +0000

What Anna from HP Total Care says:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=2699642&postcount=5

Also check the Link on the same page for servicing and updating

By: Ysrael

Ysrael — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:57:33 +0000

What Anna from HP Total Care says:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=2699642&postcount=5

By: Ysrael

Ysrael — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:55:12 +0000

OK, guys, bad news, I really hate to accept that the motherboard and service painful trip is the only option ahead

Yesterday after a couple of standby stops (yes standby and not turning off neither restart nor hibernating) the problem arose again, so I will try to mess the rest of this week with some harder stuff, like hitting the card and taking the hardware to a group therapist (and in the meantime see if registry modifications and other things work)

Sadly here in LA a class action is only a dream