Hp spectre no wifi after bios update

[las05]

Oh man!

unfortunately my warranty expired like 3 months ago. Unless there is a paid service for repair

[ub6424]

Hello @las05 

@Paul_Tikkanen can recommend a compatible wireless card for your notebook ( HP Spectre X360 Laptop - 15-Eb0053dx / product number 9GB30UA#ABA ). If he reads this, he may respond and be able to help you.

Purchase the card and install it or have it installed by a notebook repair service.

Kind regards

[las05]

Man, I hope so because this laptop has a soldered-on network card and I hope he can help me out

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, @las05 

Unfortunately, you are correct.

Your notebook is one of the very few models that I know of where the Wi-Fi adapter is an integral part of the motherboard and cannot be simply removed and replaced.

Maintenance and Service Guide HP Spectre x360 15 Convertible PCIMPORTANT! This document is intended ...

Can you roll back the BIOS to the last version that was installed if you know what it was?

There are several previous versions.

HP Spectre 15-eb0000 x360 Convertible Laptop PC series Software and Driver Downloads | HP® Customer ...

Looking at the release notes for BIOS update F.15, it is very odd that would have caused the Wi-Fi card to quit working, but it must have if your notebook's Wi-Fi was working fine beforehand.

Your screenshots show that a couple of Wi-Fi/networking related tests failed.

[ub6424]

Thanks @Paul_Tikkanen for the speedy and very helpful support.

[las05]

It’s so odd and when I run the component test by pressing the F2 option, it’s still telling me that it passed. Unfortunately I don’t remember the previous version of bios it was running 

 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

If you don't want to try rolling back to an earlier BIOS version, you may just want to play it safe  and continue to use the USB wifi adapter, and hope HP releases a subsequent BIOS update that may correct the problem. 

[las05]

I will try and roll back to the to the previous version, and if it doesn’t work, I’ll just be using a USB Wi-Fi device