Upgrade Glitch

HP dv5t-1000 had been spilled on, cleaned it up and it worked for a little while then died. Bought a discrete graphics upgrade. Original drivers were lost. Ordered factory restore discs from HP. Installed and machine is up and running except for one glitch. Wifi stays off or amber. All other touch buttons work. Took to shop they say it's a software issue. Sent mobo back, they checked and it is ok and say it is software issue. I have uninstalled drivers for the Broadcom wireless card and reinstalled the drivers several times. Got another switch board, same result. So what is the next step I ask, besides pulling hair and tossing over the fence that is.

 

an addendum- went to update driver page and downloaded a driver that wont allow me to have the wireless card in the machine now. Bios version is one behind the current one. New version same result no wireless acceptance. SP messed up my card but the software for the amber is still primary concern.

 

Try using "HP SoftPaq" which I found to be a great program simply because it will read your hardware and tell you which drivers you need, then it will download the right one, and install it (you don't have to install all the crapware it recommends, just the wi-fi driver) Software & Driver Downloads HP Pavilion dv5t-1000 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English) you have to choose your OS first, and then find the "HP SoftPaq" download.

By the way, it reads all your hardware so in the future you can do a regular install from a Windows disc and just use SoftPaq to get the necessary drivers for everything

 

Believe it or not I think you need to install the launch buttons and then just press the wireless button and select 'on'.

Tell me if it works lol.

 

I used these to set up initially before I ordered the recovery discs. After installing the factory recovery discs the amber wireless still did not work. Now the card itself causes a 104 boot error and wont start. So it has to stay out in order to boot up. I want to fix both if possible. The wireless card issue and the amber wireless card amber light problem. HP forum has had many posts on the amber problem and it seems the bios update addressed it. However not on this machine.

 

I did the launch button download and the bezel bar has always worked. Only the wifi switch doesn't do anything. I have the correct driver for the wifi card and have installed it many times but still get the boot 104 unsupported network device detected remove and restart.

 

Then I guess your wi-fi card is shot (either it randomly died on you, it was defective, or it got damaged somehow; but it is no longer working at all, thus preventing boot up), it can't really be anything else (no drivers or such are loaded up at bios, only 'hardware detection' occurs at boot up; if something is wrong it won't boot. As is the case with bad ram preventing a system boot)

You should be able to easily find a replacement card online, and ebay should have a few at $20 or so.

 

You can buy a new cheapy wifi card on Ebay just make sure it's compatible. So maybe get one that's the same type as your dead one.

 

This probably wouldn't have happened if he had his laptop plugged into a surge protector eh Zep?

 

Before the card supposedly died, and before downloading various drivers it would boot. The device manager said it was good. 2 computer techs agreed on the fact that it was a SOFTWARE issue. Any other card I attempt to put in delivers the same 104 boot error. Would having the bios changed to boot from the DVD drive 1st, change the Bios configuration and read the hardware and install the drivers necessary to run everything?

 

Which cards have you tried, and the one it came with? (model numbers on them, please) because only specific cards are able to be used by a laptop (it isn't like a desktop where you can just plug any PCI card into and PCI slot and have it work; on a laptop they only allow two or three cards to be recognized by the computer, all other cards either won't be recognized, or won't allow the system to boot up)

It is very likely that the card that was there originally has simply died, and then the other cards you tried are not compatible with your computer.

Are you able to try the card that was originally in that computer, in another computer? (one that would recognize/ be able to use it)

 

The card that was originally in the machine worked before the spill. After the upgrade the card was reinstalled and was not preventing boot but didn't turn on. I tried another card from my compaq and got the 104 no boot message. Uninstalled the driver and reinstalled driver. I have tried every driver for Intel broadcom. It wont boot with the original card or any other now.