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    Please Help Pavilion TX1000 with Win 7 install

    Discussion in 'HP' started by fright88, Dec 15, 2009.

  1. fright88

    fright88 Notebook Geek

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    Ok so a friend of mine brought in this notebook to work and asked me to take a look at it because it won't detect any wireless networks. Looking through the device manager I don't see the wireless card. HP only lists Vista and XP drivers but neither seem to work with win 7. Thanks for any help.
     
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    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you don't at least see a yellow ! mark in Device Manager, odds are the NVIDIA chipset is going bad. Wireless disappearing is one of the early symptoms of chipset failure.

    If that's what's going on and you want to attempt to fix it, read this thread:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=4792475&postcount=15
    Read from that post forward.
     
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