Oct 302007

HP Pavilion Wi-Fi Problems

Posted by: Sierra in HP



HP Pavilion Wi-Fi ProblemsHP finally confirmed the problems encountered at its Pavilion notebooks, series 6000 and 9000.

Apparently the issue comes from the built-in Wi-Fi that is not working, as some owners complained.
The cards are not detecting the network and it seemed that the affected machines are only those running with AMD and Windows Vista.

Silently, HP worked on the problem and released the solution passing by the furious comments coming from different posts.
A Bios update became available and also the instructions for resolving the issue.

Though, some owners of these models tried to fix this by themselves by replacing the Wi-Fi cards, and surprise!
It still didn’t work.
Things didn’t change with those that got that Bios update.
Until now, the two solutions that really worked were to replace the motherboard or to buy a new and different notebook.

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3 Comment(s) on “HP Pavilion Wi-Fi Problems”

  • Atef said on Aug 29 08 at 2:35 am:

    I have HP pavilion 3640ef and I have the same problrm with wifi...Wifi connection works sometimes for days and sometimes shut down for days without any reasons!It drives me crazy and no one was able to solve the problem.As I waent to HP website to downlaod the wifi BIOS update ..They told me my pc is not listed to download this bios because I bought it from Tunisia in nirth africa!I was shocked to hear that as my laptop is still in the warranty and as Hp company prmised to repair all the infected computers for free.What should Do to solve the wifi problem with my laptop?Nedd an answer soon pls...Did anyone succeed to solve the problem?

  • Atef Friji said on Aug 29 08 at 2:37 am:

    I have HP pavilion 9640ef and I have the same problrm with wifi...Wifi connection works sometimes for days and sometimes shut down for days without any reasons!It drives me crazy and no one was able to solve the problem.As I waent to HP website to downlaod the wifi BIOS update ..They told me my pc is not listed to download this bios because I bought it from Tunisia in nirth africa!I was shocked to hear that as my laptop is still in the warranty and as Hp company prmised to repair all the infected computers for free.What should Do to solve the wifi problem with my laptop?Nedd an answer soon pls...Did anyone succeed to solve the problem?

  • Sierra said on Aug 29 08 at 8:17 am:

    What is the exact laptop model? I can't find any "ef" series.