Wireless Adapter keeps disabling itself

[Erik_Daniel_Zam]

Ive been having a similar problem but on a HP Pavilion 17-e016dx.

The wifi is disabling itself when its connecting to a network.

I've tried all of the suggestions from above with no success. 

Perhaps there is something else because this is a different model?

[lvangundy]

First off - this may or may not help with anyone's wi-fi disconnects on an HP laptop using the Centrino 2230 adapter. My hypothesis is not 100% tested and verified.

I've been having a similar issue for some time with the current Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 drivers.  In Windows 8 I could roll back to an older driver designed for  8 and it would be OK, but when I upgraded to 10 the driver changed again.  I suspect the newer drivers do not play well with the tiered power plan settings like "low" and "medium".

Almost all the time my laptop is plugged in to a power source. When I had it unplugged around the house I would always have internet connection issues- it would work for a few minutes, or drop in and out despite the connection showing a full signal, even sometimes showing the signal icon, but it would show disabled. Just odd behavior.  The adapter would show it was on, but it would be disabled or have an error status. The keyboard button light would be white, and when you press it nothing would happen.

I eventually made the connection and realized that it's possible the power saving plan (NOT the device manager) is attempting to save power on the adapter.

The isntructions earlier in this thread mention disabling the "turn this device off to save power" option in device manager, but that's only part of the solution. 

You need to edit the active power plan (when on battery) in the control panel and go to advanced power plan settings > wireless adapter settings > power saving mode > on battery > maximum performance.  Mine was on "medium" and I suspect that the driver doesn't have an interpretation of what low or medium is, so it gets put into a state of limbo or partial activation, or tries to enter a low power state when there is no activity, dropping the connection to the router.  Not sure though.

I went through a mess uninstalling drivers and doing all this work and should have realized I had trouble when it was on battery. But agian, this is preliminary at this point. Not 100% guaranteed to be the issue.

[NA-Colombo]

My HP Envy TS 15 (Windows 8.1) is now 2 years old and the Battery check shows that it is operating at 30% capacity. I noticed that the wi-fi disabled itself when I was using the compter on battery and the battery had almost drained. Once this happened, it was very difficult to enable the wifi after connecting to mains power. No amount of restarting /shutting down and restarting would automatically enable the wi-fi. One had to run Troubleshooter as an Administrator before the Computer would fix itself. Having trwled HP Support forums I found Ivangundy's post and tried out his suggestion.  It has worked for me and so far I have not had any further problems with the WiFi disabling itself.

I have not upgraded to Windows 10 as HP has not confirmed that the computer will work after an upgrade. 

[3dgar]

Hi, I have an ELITE BOOK 745 G3 Notebook , Windows 7 Professional (64bits) and im facing the same problem. Network adapter keeps disabling itself on battery , I can get connection just some minutes and then its disabling itself. I have to restart my laptop and plug it to avoid this. I already tried all suggestions here but still not solved. Wireless Adapter : INTEL(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265. Please your support

[cpullen32]

I'm having the same exact problem with my intel dual band wireless ac 7260 adapter. Having that problem on the battery and when plugged in though. If you hear a solution please let me know...