Seeking recommendation for replacement of wireless 4965AGN for Windows 10

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I  purchased this laptop HP Pavilion dv6985se Entertainment Notebook PC (LOVE IT) in summer 2008  with Windows Vista; I upgraded to Windows 7;  . . . then upgraded to Windows 10.  A year later post Windows 10 Anniversary update -experiencing intermittent  Blue Screen crashes : DRIVER NOT LESS EQUAL  -  netwlv64.sys - The  Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN   card is no longer supported for driver updates.  I have attempted various combinations of  adapter - Advanced property settings - hoping to achieve stability - without success - the Blue Screen  crashes continue unabated arbitrarily.  

Researching online, the closest match  (3 wire) adapter found so far is : Intel® Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300 -
BUT, in the seller specs, a caveat states "Compatible with: all laptop brands except IBM/Lenovo/HP"

I AM SEEKING A  RECOMMENDATION  FOR A  REPLACEMENT wireless 4965AGN  HAVING COMPATIBILITY  WITH WINDOWS 10 - 64bit.

Has anyone replaced their wireless 4965AGN  card and experienced stability?  Which model number?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

[Huffer]

Your laptop has a BIOS whitelist. That means only the specific wireless cards (with HP Part number) offered from the factory can operate. If you try to install anything else the laptop will not get past an error screen. 

There are really only 2 choices:

Intel 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN modules: ● For use in Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Brunei, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Uruguay, the United States, Venezuela, and Vietnam 441086-001

Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN modules: ● For use in Canada, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the United States 441090-001

https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Wireless-4965AGN-300Mbps-441086-001/dp/B00NT8DJYY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qi...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-dv6000-dv9000-Mini-PCI-Express-Wireless-LAN-Card-441090-001-407159-001-/2...

4965AGN has known issues with Windows 10:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2792483/intel-wireless-wifi-link-4965agn.html

No, there is no recommended workaround. The whitelist has been basically impossible to overcome by any reasonable means. 

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[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Unfortunately, your model has a BIOS whitelist which prevents the installation of any wireless card other than those listed in the service manual for your model.

You have the best card available at the time, so there are none better/newer you can switch to.

You can try the Broadcom 4321AGN 802.11a/b/g/n module with the part number listed for the country you live in found in Chapter 3, page 24 of the service manual.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01295877

That would be the closest equivalent to what you have now.

I would have no idea how it would work on W10.  There are only W7 drivers for that model card available.

You would have to buy a used but tested and working card on eBay or elsewhere, and it must have the HP part number on it or it will not work.

I believe you would use the outboard antenna leads, and leave the middle one unattached.

[KenWillTry]

Hello and yes,

      I am fairly familiar with the netwlv64 failure & BSOD when using WINDOWS 10 on an early (ie VISTA style) laptop that was built with an INTEL WiFi 4965AGN card.  (Such old computers are technically NOT CERTIFIED nor COMPLIANT for WIN10.)  The BSOD occurred randomly on both my TOSHIBA A305 and my DELL D630.  And YES I have found a solution that works for both of my machines.   I simply worked backwards through the existing driver versions for that 4956AGN card until I found a driver that just happened to work!   While INTEL has failed to create a WIN10 compliant driver for the 4965AGN, they did create a series of upgraded drivers, the latest being v.15 - I believe.  I worked backwards and found that version 12.1.0.14 dated 8/28/08 eliminates the BSOD on both of my machines, and I believe it will help your HP too.  Both my machines run in 64bit mode.   I actually downloaded that driver from the Lenovo web site.  Search for that version number, or search on Lenovo for "ds011536".  Good Luck 🙂

      Now a warning:  Every time Microsoft issues a new version (major upgrade) of WIN10, you will need to reinstall the older driver because a part of the upgrade (say from v.1709 to v.1803 of WIN10) seems to be the reinstall of current drivers.  So SAVE THAT OLD DRIVER when you download and install it.  You WILL need it again.

      Another suggestion:  Turn OFF the "Power Management" setting for 'Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' that can be found under Properties for the 4965AGN card.  That will help with the connection issues, but it did not improve or lessen the random BSOD condition for either of my machines.

      I have precise notes, so if you need more details I will be able to provide same.  For anyone with an HP, this should solve what they call the 'whitelist' problem that prevents hardware upgrades by locking the boot time BIOS to specific HP hardware.  You won't need to change the hardware !!!   ~Ken