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    Wireless Problems

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Darks Legacy, Mar 2, 2009.

  1. Darks Legacy

    Darks Legacy Notebook Enthusiast

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    My girlfriend is running a 32x bit Windows Vista on a Hp Pavilion dv2000. So for 2 years the internet has worked fine and just about last week, it stopped working. We changed nothing with the settings but the wireless stopped working. When we startup the laptop the wireless light does not turn blue even though the switch is turned to on. We cannot start the Hp Wireless assistant, and we tried diagnosing the problem and we get the message Plug in a cable to network adapter "Local Area Connection". Does anybody have any knowledge on this problem?
     
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    I do believe there's a running problem with some HP laptops and their wireless devices, including the dv2000 series. It's a hardware fault, probably one that can't be fixed without a motherboard swap, and commonplace enough such that HP issued a warranty extensions to the owners of select machines. You can see if your system qualifies for the warranty extension here:

    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c01087277
     
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