Wireless on laptop

[chazpowerslide]

To cut a long story short(ish) I had Norton 360 on my laptop which it then proceeded to kill, the machine was shipped with Norton Interned Security 2006.

At some stage prior to this the wireless stopped working shortly after installing 360.

Due to difficulties with recovering the data on the hard drive which would be lost when doing a full system recovery I fitted a new (bigger) hard drive.

I then did a full system recovery and hey presto the wireless was up an running again.

I downloaded (wirelessly) AVG and some software from Race technology, all fine.

As the subscription for NIS had run out and I did not want any conflicts with AVG I then uninstalled NIS and the wireless stopped working.

I can't find the wireless adapter on the device manager.

I have used the Application and Driver Recovery tab on System Recovery to re-install the driver which has been done successfully but still no wireless..........

System is XP home pro.

Any advice would be most welcome.

Chaz.

[RichP]

Start - settings - network connections

Is your wireless network connection showing "enabled" or "disabled"? If disabled, right click and select enable.

Edit - You can select "Repair" as well which might help.

Check "properties" (again through the right click) and ensure that on the "wireless networks" tab it's set for windows to configure your wireless network.

Otherwise, not sure!

[chazpowerslide]

It's not showing anything, it's as if is completely gone from the system.

Chaz.

[jsawyer86]

1. kick it

2. drown it

3. burn it!

if that fails check to see if there is a function button on the lap top to turn on the wireless reciever (have to turn mine on every start up).

also see if you can find a diagnostics button in the windows networks menu, it may find and even fix a fault ( resetting the network adaptors usualy sorts mine out).

[pistonbroke]

Start

help and support

system restore

restore to a previous date  

[langy]

have a look and see if you have a switch on the side of your laptop that turns the wireless on and off, some Dell's have them.

[chazpowerslide]

There is a switch and it's in the on position.

The thing is that I can't see anything on the device manager to indicate the hardware is actually there, I have re-installed the driver, that shows up on add/remove programmes and I've gone in and used the repair option but still no wireless.

I'll try to restore to a previous date and see if it comes back up.

Chaz.

[Cleggy the Spyder Man]

sounds like its down to anti virus/firewall settings to me preventing a connection - check them and if all else fails uninstall virus software and re-install

that's what i would do anyway

or you could try as suggested above first - system restore to a previous date - you should not loose any work so dont worry about that

[chazpowerslide]

Network connections settings only show the LAN connection, the HP wireless help does not start up at all when you click the icon.

I'm now doing a system restore.................

Chaz.