Wifi upgrade for Zbook 15G2 AC7260NGW to AC 8260 or 8265 as driver support is so bad loosing wifi .

[Paul_Tikkanen]

It almost sounds to me like you have a bad memory chip in there.

Not bad enough to trigger an error code or cause the notebook not to boot, but bad enough to cause blue screens and lockups.

You really don't want to mess around taking those antenna leads on and off too many times.

They are not made for that, and if one of the ends breaks off, you are in the doghouse.

[camelotshadow]

Trying to boot from Ethernet but network not found

So it might not be working...hence not updating from online when it tries...

Trying to boot from harddrive & brings me back to screen trying to get online but I can'r seem to get ethernet to work 

Took out ethernet cable to try to force wifi but no reason it should since I can;t configure it..

Oooh boy...

Put back ethernet

Ran again just a moment 10 plus minutes & now if on black screen but not zooming or too hot so I

ll wait & see if it recovers...

Next willbe tp switch to old wifi...not wanting to keep playing w annt caps as they are so delicate,

Well not going well at all...how long should it be on a black screen if its possibly updating>?

[camelotshadow]

I donlt want to play musical wifi cards. I have least 3 memory chips & 16GB...never had a problem with memory.

I have limited hardware diagnisis thru f2 but I can check the memory...don;t think that s it,,

[camelotshadow]

tried to boot from hardrive & was back at the page to try to finish the install as something is not right but donlt think the network is available to it to do that. It was in old win 10

Still  black screen...I can;t seem to get in to disable the wifi thu f2....but maybe I'll try again

win did not really finish... so guess win 10 repaur disk won;t work???

running mem test,,,

I did not take out any partitions..it has a small hp I thought it would just override it,,,not sure what it did

Want to do all I can before I play with the wifi card again after all it did run windows with the card

[camelotshadow]

19 min quick mem test ok passed

Hard drive passed quick 

No other tests avail lim uefi

Bios 4/19 

Mem reads 16GB

back to blu HI there screen but never get passed as it says need more to restart

Whats the ease of access wheel for? well that did not work...clickin git froze it

I click next & it tries to update online but don;t think its connecting

how could I tell if its accessing the ethernet? the router says it is 

in bios

boot order

uefi hybrid with csm

pxu internal ipv4 nic boot & ipv6 not checked

pxi interna; nic boot checked

do they need to be checked to boot from internet?

Tried to boot from network & network not found

Some seem to day boot should be legacy????

hmmm...getting off track & nothing should have changed in bios///I don;t even want to take out the floppy as any change now it its unstable would mess it.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

I don't have any of my PC'S set to boot from a network adapter.

I think you can only do that on a corporate network.

I have no idea how that works.

[camelotshadow]

Basically back to switching the wifi or load win again from usb & try it again...

My feeling its the wifi card messing but cant be sure & win 10 did work with the 9260 onstalled just the card did not turn on.

Cant get win on my usb as it says it will delete my files so I need another usb flash drive.

So only options are to wait & get another usb flash drive or find a way to disab;e the wifi card or remove it

[camelotshadow]

I'm letting the black screen run...Its not likely doing anything as they should lease have some info its its updating or not. Maybe its uploading a new wins 10 or something...not likely but that could take long. Still there should be some notice its doing something just not  ablack hang screen.

It is speeding & slowing so maybe its downloading something on a black screen??? Been close to 2 hrs

Have others to work on but no lit keyb is a pain

[camelotshadow]

All 802.11 integrated wireless LAN options

• Intel Dual Band Wireless-NB 7260 802.11 a/b/g/n (2x2) WiFi
• Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2x2) WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 combo
• Intel Dual Band Wireless-AN 7260 802.11 a/b/g/n (2x2) WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 combo

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04488080

4th light in front is white & blinking. Also the wifi & sound buttons are white...

http://cdn2.bhphotovideo.com/lit_files/104388.pdf

I can;t recall what the 4th light displays???

Its the hard drive light so HDD is doing something

Also first light lit white is the wifi????

3 hrs still black & still seems to be doing something,,,

Well maybe its uploading??????? Will wonders never cease???

I'll let it do whatever its doing but its still black screen///Does windows update or upload in black screen?

[camelotshadow]

Well about 5 hours & nothing yet??? ooohhhh

Maybe the screen display went off??? I have it at 10 min...

Possible its still displaying just a minute???

I usually set it to not shut down when I'm updating but I forgot...

Its not went to sleep but it did go black aroudn 10 minutes???

Well I'll just leave it do its thing. Maybe its uploading win 10 & that take a long time

Still were at around 6 hours...

Hard drive light is active,,,oooh well...maybe when I get up it will all be alright!!!