Aspire 5741 HDMI and Wireless

I have an Acer Aspire 5741 laptop. i also have a Samsung 204t external monitor. When I plug the external monitor into the laptop via a vga cable, everything works great. However, whenever I plug the external monitor in using an hdmi to dvi cable, my wireless internet connection immediately goes dead. When I unplug the hdmi from the laptop, the wireless connection immediately comes back.

I booted into Ubuntu 10.04 and I get the same problem. Thats makes me think it is a hardware problem. Everything was working fine with the hdmi port until Monday night when this problem manifested. Also, the hdmi to dvi cable seems to work great...good picture and everything, except the wireless connection immediately drops when I plug it into the hdmi port on the laptop. What would an hdmi port have to do with my wireless connection?

I installed a Realtek 8187L driver for an external usb adapter and had this problem upon the next reboot. I have since uninstalled the Realtek driver but I'm still having the same problem. Since this setup worked before...is there some hardware setting the Realtek driver may have changed to cause the conflict?

 

Hi,

this could be some EMV issue. Perhaps the shielding of your DVI/HDMI cable is not as good as it should be.

Michael