http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/p...&lang=en&cc=us - Laptop in question
Ok so basically one day I woke up and tried browsing the internet on my laptop and it wasn't working. I looked at my wireless switch on the side of my laptop and the switch was on, but the wireless light was amber - which is the color it turns if my wireless isn't working. So I close my laptop and figure ill worry about it another day. I wake up the next day, and before I open my laptop, I notice the wireless light is blue - which is the color it turns if wireless is working. So I figure it must be a glitch and after I'm done I close the laptop again. The next day I wake up and again, no wireless. I figure maybe it's my connection, but at my brothers house it still wouldn't connect. The next day STILL at my brother's house it randomly connected.
So I get back home and go through a few days of no wireless (amber light), until one day I open the laptop and its working again (blue light). So I figure maybe it has to do with me closing the lid. So for the next 3-5 days I don't close the lid and I have a blue light and a perfect connection. That was until a friend was using it and closed the lid. From then on I could never get another connection. So it's been about a month without being able to use the internet, and have no idea what's wrong.
Not only does my connection disappear, all traces of any sort of wireless anything on my computer disappears along with it.
I leave for college in a few weeks and this will be my only computer/source of internet while im there. So if I cant get a solution im screwed.
Im thinking it may be a driver issue, but I dont know where to look for an updated one, as soon as I got the thing, I formatted and installed XP and specific drivers I found while googling for someone who did the same thing with this Laptop. Also I dont understand why it would just randomly go out and back again.
Thanks in advance if you read this far, this is very frustrating.
Ok so basically one day I woke up and tried browsing the internet on my laptop and it wasn't working. I looked at my wireless switch on the side of my laptop and the switch was on, but the wireless light was amber - which is the color it turns if my wireless isn't working. So I close my laptop and figure ill worry about it another day. I wake up the next day, and before I open my laptop, I notice the wireless light is blue - which is the color it turns if wireless is working. So I figure it must be a glitch and after I'm done I close the laptop again. The next day I wake up and again, no wireless. I figure maybe it's my connection, but at my brothers house it still wouldn't connect. The next day STILL at my brother's house it randomly connected.
So I get back home and go through a few days of no wireless (amber light), until one day I open the laptop and its working again (blue light). So I figure maybe it has to do with me closing the lid. So for the next 3-5 days I don't close the lid and I have a blue light and a perfect connection. That was until a friend was using it and closed the lid. From then on I could never get another connection. So it's been about a month without being able to use the internet, and have no idea what's wrong.
Not only does my connection disappear, all traces of any sort of wireless anything on my computer disappears along with it.
I leave for college in a few weeks and this will be my only computer/source of internet while im there. So if I cant get a solution im screwed.
Im thinking it may be a driver issue, but I dont know where to look for an updated one, as soon as I got the thing, I formatted and installed XP and specific drivers I found while googling for someone who did the same thing with this Laptop. Also I dont understand why it would just randomly go out and back again.
Thanks in advance if you read this far, this is very frustrating.
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