HP 240 G6 doesnt start with AX200 2230 2x2 AX+BT No vPro

[Balyndar]

Hello all,

I hope my question is correctly placed here.
On my private laptop I had only a very slow internet speed (< 5MBit/s) on my home network. At the same time I had an internet speed of (> 100MBit/s) with my mobile phone and my work laptop. So I thought this was due to my network card. And I wanted to change it.

My HP 240 G6 has an Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 installed.

After a short research here in the forum, I wanted to upgrade this card. I followed these recommendations here in the forum Solved! Bios whitelist for wifi card  and others that I found. According to my research, there is no BIOS whitelist in my laptop and the following card should work. I am running Windows 10 64bit.

I ordered and installed an AX200 2230 2x2 AX+BT No vPro.

Then the following problem appeared:

The laptop stayed black. And at the very beginning of the startup, I could not get into the BIOS settings. The laptop always stayed black. As soon as I reinstalled the old card, the laptop worked perfectly again. Does anyone have an idea how I could solve the problem?

Thank you very much,
Balyndar

[TryToDoMybest]

Hello

probably BIOS doesn't support Intel AX card and boot process stops without showing an error on the display.

reading the datasheet I find it supports Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2x2) Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® 4.2 Combo, non-vPro

Bye

[Balyndar]

Do you think it will support every Intel AC Card ? (like the Intel Wireless-AC 9260)
Because, your submitted Card is not as good as the AX one.

Do you can think i can chance the BIOS ?

Thanks, for your answer!

[TryToDoMybest]

Hello

you can't change the BIOS , you can update to latest version but if a  specific card is not suppoted, it will not work.

You can't add a card that BIOS doesn't support. So maximum is the one written in datasheet.

bye

[Balyndar]

Hello TryToDoMybest and hello entire forum,

Thank you very much for all your tips, as you can see I'm not giving up yet and I hope it's ok that I ask a lot of questions.

I have now updated my BIOS to the version Insyde F.50 from 27.08.2021. Where can I find out with which cards this BIOS version is compatible?

Many thanks
Balyndar

[TryToDoMybest]

Hello

you can't know this. the only WiFi cards that for sure will be recognized are those written on datasheet or Quickspecs.

bye