4965AGN Upgrade help on DV9000t

Hey all. I have a HP DV 9000t (945 chipset). At the time I bought it (marchl) the Pre-N wireless was not available since the Intel chip was not on the market yet. Everything else was the latest and greatest and I figured I could upgrade to N later when the 4965agn was out.

So I just bought a 4965AGN from a very nice chinese guy on Ebay and swapped it in and got a "wireless card not supported" message durning the BIOS boot process. This is prior to the NB even accessing the hard drive.

Both cards are mini PCI-e cards and the install was smooth and trouble free. Swapping back to the 3645ABG restored by boot, but I would really like to get up and running with N.

Does anybody know what is going on here?

Thanks.

 

HP has BIOS lock on non HP certified cards. So unless you buy a wifi card which is on the BIOS whitelist the system wont boot. Thats why you are seeing that message. There are ways around this. Search the forum, I remember a workaround being posted a while back but to start off look through these two guides as well...
http://www.richud.com/HP-Pavilion-104-Bios-Fix/
http://www.rechner.org/b1800_bios.html

Also, I think(not 100% sure) wireless N requires a third antenna and unless you have a third antenna installed you wont get good reception or might not even be able to make use of the N features.

 

I was aware of the 3rd antenna issue and I am hoping to workaround it with an add on antenna. I wasn't aware of the bios lock.

Thanks for the info.