I currently have been running on an HP tx1000, 500GB Hard Drive, 4GB SODIMM DRAM.For anyone not familiar with newer HP laptops, a lot of them include a wireless switch which is blue when enabled, and amber (orange) when disabled. Out of nowhere one day, my Wireless Status Indicator Light turned amber. After contacting HP once, they ran me through a series of SoftPak installations. These including flashing the BIOS, updating the WLAN card driver and reinstalling the newest version of HP Wireless Assistant.
This provided a temporary fix, but at no particular time, my Wireless Light will turn amber and the WLAN will cease to work again. I contacted HP's support and they confirmed this was a hardware issue. I understand that they "can't determine the extent of the issue until physical checkup has taken place." However, this seems like a common issue. I am reading on lots of forums about different possibilities of a problem.
My first course of action is to replace the Broadcom Wireless LAN card and see what that does. Has anyone come across this issue? I have read some things about the motherboard being the issue, and not triggering the wireless card properly.
My second course of action is if that new WLAN card doesn't work, to just purchase an external WLAN card to bypass having to get a new notebook PC.
I greatly appreciate any comments on my courses of action and what people may think to resolve this nightmare issue. How can I rickroll people without a WLAN connection? Haha.
I currently have been running on an HP tx1000, 500GB Hard Drive, 4GB SODIMM DRAM.For anyone not familiar with newer HP laptops, a lot of them include a wireless switch which is blue when enabled, and amber (orange) when disabled. Out of nowhere one day, my Wireless Status Indicator Light turned amber. After contacting HP once, they ran me through a series of SoftPak installations. These including flashing the BIOS, updating the WLAN card driver and reinstalling the newest version of HP Wireless Assistant.
This provided a temporary fix, but at no particular time, my Wireless Light will turn amber and the WLAN will cease to work again. I contacted HP's support and they confirmed this was a hardware issue. I understand that they "can't determine the extent of the issue until physical checkup has taken place." However, this seems like a common issue. I am reading on lots of forums about different possibilities of a problem.
My first course of action is to replace the Broadcom Wireless LAN card and see what that does. Has anyone come across this issue? I have read some things about the motherboard being the issue, and not triggering the wireless card properly.
My second course of action is if that new WLAN card doesn't work, to just purchase an external WLAN card to bypass having to get a new notebook PC.
I greatly appreciate any comments on my courses of action and what people may think to resolve this nightmare issue. How can I rickroll people without a WLAN connection? Haha.