Wireless Card Issues

Hello All,

I have read many forums online and have not seen any possible solutions
to my problems.

I am running Windows XP Home on a laptop. My wireless card turns on
when my computer boots up and I can even see available wireless
networks. However, before the logon process completes, the wireless
card dies. The laptop is an HP. It has a LED that shines when the
wireless card is on, so you can visually watch the logon process I just
described. There are also Window's "bubble" comments that pop up to
tell me my wireless card is "off." If you press the wireless button on
the laptop, the Window's bubble comment switches between "disabled" and
"off," whereas when it worked it would switch between "disabled" and
"enabled" ("enabled" or "on"--can't remember).

Anyway, I have tried the following:
-uninstall/reinstall wireless driver (downloaded new driver for card).
-updated BIOS (don't know how that would help, but it was suggested by
HP assistant...?)
-turned off ZoneAlarm to see if my card was somehow being blocked. But
I guess that wouldn't really help because it is not being blocked, it is
being turned off.

As I mentioned, I spoke to an HP assistant and she said that if the
first two above did not work, I would have to run an xp restore. I was
pretty sure they wouldn't work because I had already tried to
uninstall/reinstall the wireless driver, and I wasn't sure how updating
the BIOS would affect the wireless card. Anyway, running restore sounds
like overkill to me?

It almost seems like there is some process that is killing the wireless
card, but I am not really sure how to turn on/off processes, or how to
do it safely, to see what program might be killing the card. I just
thought of running the computer in safe mode to see if the wireless card
would stay on, but I wouldn't know what to do after that.

Any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
bjf


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"bjf624" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Hello All,
>
> I have read many forums online and have not seen any possible solutions
> to my problems.
>
> I am running Windows XP Home on a laptop. My wireless card turns on
> when my computer boots up and I can even see available wireless
> networks. However, before the logon process completes, the wireless
> card dies. The laptop is an HP. It has a LED that shines when the
> wireless card is on, so you can visually watch the logon process I just
> described. There are also Window's "bubble" comments that pop up to
> tell me my wireless card is "off." If you press the wireless button on
> the laptop, the Window's bubble comment switches between "disabled" and
> "off," whereas when it worked it would switch between "disabled" and
> "enabled" ("enabled" or "on"--can't remember).
>
> Anyway, I have tried the following:
> -uninstall/reinstall wireless driver (downloaded new driver for card).
> -updated BIOS (don't know how that would help, but it was suggested by
> HP assistant...?)
> -turned off ZoneAlarm to see if my card was somehow being blocked. But
> I guess that wouldn't really help because it is not being blocked, it is
> being turned off.
>
> As I mentioned, I spoke to an HP assistant and she said that if the
> first two above did not work, I would have to run an xp restore. I was
> pretty sure they wouldn't work because I had already tried to
> uninstall/reinstall the wireless driver, and I wasn't sure how updating
> the BIOS would affect the wireless card. Anyway, running restore sounds
> like overkill to me?
>
> It almost seems like there is some process that is killing the wireless
> card, but I am not really sure how to turn on/off processes, or how to
> do it safely, to see what program might be killing the card. I just
> thought of running the computer in safe mode to see if the wireless card
> would stay on, but I wouldn't know what to do after that.
>
> Any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> bjf
>
>
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