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    vista + hgl-30 = bad news

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by dougp, Feb 8, 2007.

  1. dougp

    dougp Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I get my new notebook yesterday and pull it out, copy over my files and such and everything seems fine and dandy. I take my girlfriend to school and sit there, trying to hop onto the local wireless. No go. I hit diagnose problem and it says - Card is currently disabled. I had installed the wireless hardware switch drivers that they told me too because they "rushed" my laptop.

    Well, now I had nothing, and so I give PowerNotebooks a call, and he walks me through a few things that to no avail ... don't work. I still don't have wireless in Vista, I'm plenty pissed and went ahead and formatted to XP Pro and everything's fine now ... the wireless is enabled and such. Should I risk another reformat going back to Vista hoping the enabled wireless card carries over, or should I wait on an "official" answer from their tech support? Anyone else have this problem?
     
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    Brianj, Feb 8, 2007
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    dougp Notebook Enthusiast

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    I reinstalled everything multiple times to no avail :(
     
    dougp, Feb 8, 2007
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    mikysee Notebook Guru

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    After I installed vista business on my hgl30, I didn't need to install wireless drivers or the drivers for the switch. It just worked.
     
    mikysee, Feb 8, 2007
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    chrisyano Hall Monitor NBR Reviewer

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    When you installed Vista, did you have the WiFi switch in the "on" position?
     
    chrisyano, Feb 8, 2007
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    Also no problems here with Vista, but I had my wireless enabled under XP. It definitely sounds like a wireless switch software issue. Perhaps try an XP installation to at least get it going.
     
    SMSummers, Feb 9, 2007
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    dougp Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have it going ... but due to the AWESOMNESS of PowerNotebooks, they actually built a test system, got it working on that hard drive and have shipped me the hard drive to put into my notebook since they didn't test it before they sent out mine!

    Freakin awesome, but yah I have it enabled in WinXP :)
     
    dougp, Feb 9, 2007
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    Sweet Deal! Points awarded to Powernotebooks! :D
     
    pyro9219, Feb 9, 2007
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  9. chrisyano

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    Glad to hear you got that problem ironed out. Kudos to Donald and his gang at PNB!
     
    chrisyano, Feb 10, 2007
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