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    HP EliteBook 8540p - Wirelses Assistant Trouble

    Discussion in 'HP Business Class Notebooks' started by mbau, Dec 9, 2010.

  1. mbau

    mbau Newbie

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    Hi all.

    Jus received a new EliteBook 8540p WH130AW
    I installed 8GB RAM and 2 Intel X25-M SSD's. 1 x 120GB in the the Internal HD bay as a Boot disk, and 1 x 160GB in the upgrade bay for data.
    Did a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate X64. All Drivers/bios/programs installed in latest versions from the HP Support Site

    Everything works fine. Notebook boots swiftly and connects to wireless, and generally performs very well :)

    But there is a delay of approximately 2 minutes before the HP Wireless assistant starts up. (Meaning it starts up - and announces the status of the radios when the notebook has been running for about 2 minutes)

    Does anyone have an explanation/solution to this ??
     
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  2. mbau

    mbau Newbie

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    Found it :)

    The startup of the wireless Assistant is done with a program called DelayedStarter.exe - so it by design.
    Guess this is new in the version 4. series of Wireless Asssistant. I use version 3.50.12.1 on my ProBook -and there startup is via the normal exe file.
     
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  3. Siorah

    Siorah Beware of Squirrels!

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    yea, it's delayed now because the UN2400/2420 broadband cards take longer to initialise than the wireless/bluetooth cards.

    It's annoying but it does fix problems with those of us that have the cards.
     
    Siorah, Dec 9, 2010
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