HP Compaq Presario CQ70-130EG, SSD And WiFi

[SzabolcsFHR]

Hello,
I got an old HP Compaq Presario CQ70-130EG laptop to clean up from dust, replace thermal paste and make it faster with SSD. It is done now, quick and basically working fine. However I have some minor issues.

1) WiFi is fine but the laptop always boot up with turned off WiFi adapter. I checked the BIOS settings, drivers and some kind of WiFi manager softwares, unfotunately didn't help. After the OS (W10) boots up, I have to press and hold the WiFi button for around 5 seconds to turn it on every time.

2) Booting is fine also, but I put the old HDD into an HDD caddy and replaced the old DVD drive. The problem is the laptop always tries to boot up from the old HDD and starts the old OS. I checked the boot order in BIOS, however I only could set a kind of order : HDD,USB, etc.. If I stop (ESC button) the booting sequence right after the logo appears, I can select the boot option with pressing F9. The first and default entry is the HDD and the second is the Kingston SSD. This order cannot be changed. Well my workaround was to format the bootsector of the HDD and now the laptop can boot up from SSD. However, after turn on the laptop, it still trying to boot up from HDD first and spends several seconds with "realizing" the HDD cannot bootable. After then it boots up the from SSD.

As the BIOS provides very few options, to solve these problems, I tried to find BIOS upgrade as a possible solution, I wasn't succeed so far. Can you help me to find BIOS upgrade if exists or any kind of fine tuning of this laptop please?
It is clear for me, this laptop was planned for HDD+DVD configuration originally and it is unsupported since long years. Additionally we can live with these issues. However, every advices are welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Szabolcs

[Betty0610]

@SzabolcsFHR

Welcome to the HP Support Community.

Let's perform this test:

1) Shutdown the computer.  

2) Turn the computer back on again and repeatedly tap on the ESC until a Startup menu appears.  

3) Press F2 once.  

4) Go to Component test.  

5) From the list, run the Hard Drive (extensive) test.  

If a component fails a test, write down the failure ID (24-digit code) for when you respond back to us.

Let us know 🙂

Thanks