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Mike Hollywood
Hi,
I replaced the failed 30 gig hard drive in the hp zv5000 laptop with a new
60 gig one
I got from newegg. I installed xp home with the dvd that came with the
laptop. I then installed the drivers that came with the driver dvd.
All ok in device manager except for nic card. Went to hp web site
and downloaded updated driver, and now the yellow exclamation
point went away from the nic card.
I have a router, wifi, with bellsouth service. I use it on 2 pc's, and a
compaq laptop. the pc's connect via cat 5, one is windows ME, and
the other is XP Home. Both work fine. Laptop is wifi, and it works
fine, too, with XP Home.
Back to the hp zv5000 pavilion, the wifi doesn't see any wifi signal. Its
as if
the wifi was turned off, but i don't see a switch on the case anywhere,
and there was nothing about it in the bios that i could find.
Plugging in the cat 5 cable also results in no connection. The cable
is good and working because i pulled it directly from the ME pc
and plugged it into the laptop.
I tried the network internet wizard a few times with no success.
Any ideas on how to proceed? Everything else seems to be
working fine, but i didn't try dial up yet. I thought it would be best to
get the
internet going, and update windows before installing any software so all
that's on the system is whatever the oem xphome dvd from hp did.
About 4 1/2 gigs of hd are used up.
(amd 1.6G cpu)
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Mike
I replaced the failed 30 gig hard drive in the hp zv5000 laptop with a new
60 gig one
I got from newegg. I installed xp home with the dvd that came with the
laptop. I then installed the drivers that came with the driver dvd.
All ok in device manager except for nic card. Went to hp web site
and downloaded updated driver, and now the yellow exclamation
point went away from the nic card.
I have a router, wifi, with bellsouth service. I use it on 2 pc's, and a
compaq laptop. the pc's connect via cat 5, one is windows ME, and
the other is XP Home. Both work fine. Laptop is wifi, and it works
fine, too, with XP Home.
Back to the hp zv5000 pavilion, the wifi doesn't see any wifi signal. Its
as if
the wifi was turned off, but i don't see a switch on the case anywhere,
and there was nothing about it in the bios that i could find.
Plugging in the cat 5 cable also results in no connection. The cable
is good and working because i pulled it directly from the ME pc
and plugged it into the laptop.
I tried the network internet wizard a few times with no success.
Any ideas on how to proceed? Everything else seems to be
working fine, but i didn't try dial up yet. I thought it would be best to
get the
internet going, and update windows before installing any software so all
that's on the system is whatever the oem xphome dvd from hp did.
About 4 1/2 gigs of hd are used up.
(amd 1.6G cpu)
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Mike