wireless con't connect

Hello I have a problem, When I shut my lid after I am done with my laptop and then come back several hours later I push the power button and windows loads BUT the wireless button is orange. I click to find a wireless network but it doesn't find any so I have to restart it and then it works. Sometimes after i restart it and everything looks fine I go and click on something and I get the Blue screen of death. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

 

Is this on Vista? Because I had that exact same problem (every time i started my computer it didn't connect but when i restarted wireless it worked) minus the blue screen.

One of the main reasons i'm back on XP now. But sorry I have no clue how to fix it it was so f***in annoying for me.

 

No this is on Win XP and its been doing it since we bought it 5 months ago

 

Hello Laura,

You didn't mention what model laptop you are having problems with but as a general rule you should check for updates to the drivers for your particular machine. It may be that some bug that is causing your problem was fixed in an update.

Start here: http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en...id=re_R329_prodexp%2Fhhoslp/split/support

Richard

 

I have the same problem. I am running Vista and sometimes after sleep the wireless never comes back. Device manager does not show the device, as if its not installed. I rebooted the system about 6 times before the WIFI led went bule and everything was back to normal. I'm not sure if this is a faulty switch or drivers in vista.

I did see a few messages reporting that ACPI could not find a IRQ for PCI device 2,3 and 4 when the WIFI was not working.