Need help from my fine ThePhins.com brethren.
Basically I started up my laptop after work when I got home, and the automatic connection to my wireless router did not work. When I went to look at the "Connect to" options, there was no opportunity to connect to a wireless network. (I am running Windows XP)
When I showed all my connections, there was no option to pick a wireless network, and to top it off, the indicator that my computer was looking for a wireless network was an amber color, while the tab was pushed on so it looks. The color it's supposed to be when it looks is blue.
I wired it up to the internet and that works fine. Then I went into safe mode and tried to reinstall drivers for the network card. I thought that worked because when I restarted coming out of safe mode, it found the wireless.
I was wrong - now when I start up the computer it doesn't have the ability to find a wireless connection, but when I restart in safe mode then restart in normal mode, it finds it. When I shut it down for the evening I have to go through that process again though.
I swept through with a virus scanner and cleared some stuff out, no biggie on that front.
Any thoughts?
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maybe try going to the "connections" folder, find your proper connection, right click it and hit "repair connection". maybe it needs to reset your ip address.
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Let me take a wild guess, it's an HP or Compaq Presario. If so, they have had problems with the mother board not seeing the wireless card. HP support will walk you through a few steps that won't fix it. Then they will mail you a new wireless card that still won't be found by your laptop. Then you will mail it off to them and a week later it will come back fixed. That's my guess because that is what happened to mine.
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Also you could manually reset your wireless router with its reset button. -
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Tried UNinstalling the drivers and then reinstalling? Sometimes an uninstall is needed (generic guidance).
Also, after some updates (patches) I ran into a friends machine that needed a BIOS update in order to work (different problem though). You may want to see if one is available just in case. -
About two weeks ago my wireless quit working. No matter what I did I couldn't get it to work. So I call my phone company, where I get my internet from. I explained everything to the tech support and they gave me a couple of things to do, which didn't work.
I then told them it quite working after a windows update. ( I have windows XP) He then asked me if I had zone alarm, I said yes. He told me to remove zone alarm. When I removed zone alarm my wireless worked. -
ya Terry it could be your firewall settings.
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i had a similar problem with my laptop, never did get it fixed. i have a 7+ year old HP and built-in wireless. the wireless just stopped working one day for whatever reason (i didn't change anything) and i haven't gotten it to work since. freakin pisses me off. if i plug in wired ethernet, it works just fine. grrrrr
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could be ur firewall- i have all these crap problems on my XP desktop but not on my mac.
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Try disabling the internal wireless card and install a PCMCIA card. I've seen this kind of thing happen many times, when the internal card goes bad. Will be $50 or so at CompUSA or wherever.
If that doesn't solve it, just take it back. :)