HP Pavillion dv6000 Wireless not working

[ghalimajzoub]

what i did to solve all this thing was to dellete the wireless driver and downloaded it again from hp online software center....

{out of topic}: i did the same for my bluetooth 

[Fabre4life]

@pho3n1*24.My F10 bottum is used to controll the volume on the system so it doesn't take me to setup when i press it.So please what do i do?

[Fabre4life]

@Pho3n1*24.My F10 bottum is used to controll the volume on the system so it doesn't take me to setup when i press it.So please what do i do?

[esmartian_com]

Thanks Ph03n1x24 😄

I just can't get it: why the BIOS Reset to factory defaults should work??? But it does. It did for me anyway. Even though I hadn't touched much the BIOS before, and everything was fine until this morning.

And I though it was my dear Ubuntu, as I upgraded it yesterday... Nonono...

Plus, this laptop is "only" about 5 months old, worked like a charm so far... A pity I just found out about this kind of weird things... Well I guess nothing is perfect in computers...

[esmartian_com]

First guess: your keyboard is configured requiring you to press "Fn+F10" instead of just F10. Maybe you can try. But that would also affect F9...

[money123451]

i was given this laptop for free so i cant say im unhappy at least it turns on (i was given 2 dv6000 one was a doa found a processor wich helped it a little but its the gpu on the mother board so its still dead) this one im useing a netopia 3d USB crap that i use as last option so im going to get a new one (a smaller one mabby) a N not this old as Heil G

[Bigfoot35]

Ph03n1x24 posted this and it worked great for me real life saver thanks dude !I though it should be reposted because the problems keeps popping up.

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@Ph03n1x24 wrote:

(For what it's worth... since you won't get much help from HP) I am a tech at an e-recycling asset recovery management company. I see a ton of these poor HP laptops coming in with the same problems. I.E. Lights on and nobody home or wireless not working. This IS a manufacturing problem but there are work arounds rather than expensive repairs and replacement. Consider this your HP Duct Tape solution.

***NOTE: If you know how to reflash your systems BIOS I would highly recommend upgrading to the latest version for your particular laptop. You can hose your system very easily so it's not recommended for the novice.

Quick fix for No Display on power on with the system stuck in a power cycle loop:

Sometimes if you just let it go through it's power cycles it may come out of it.

Pulling the power cord and removing the battery for several minutes may work on occasion.

However this works the best for me:

When the BIOS crashes and the system shuts off it will usually turn right back on. When it does press and hold the ESC key until hopefully the Post screen comes up (HP LOGO SCREEN). On some laptops holding the HOME key will do the same thing.

Quick fix for No Wireless: Don't replace your wireless card it's perfectly fine. It's HP's crappy motherboard. In almost every instance where the wireless isn't working I just hit F10 to enter SETUP. Scroll across to EXIT. Tab F9 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS then F10 EXIT SAVING CHANGES. In every case my wireless detected and the amber light turned blue once again. Now why this works I have no clue. Maybe it gives the board time to heat up or enough time for all devices to initialize and be detected by this sleepy motherboard. Either way I have yet to have it fail to bring the wi-fi back online.

Do yourself a favor. Turn off all POWER SAVE FEATURES while plugged into a power source. This flakey laptop series likes to go to sleep and never wake up too.

Just my 2¢

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[Manon]

Great tip on the entering set-up thing. 

Flashed the BIOS, no luck. Completely kept that updated, prior to this issue, anyway, while HP was still supporting this machine. The BIOS hasn't been updated in a long while, and HP no longer seems to be supporting this version of laptop at all. For example, no software updates are available to coincide and account for Win 7, for example. No other fixes except to point me to this forum.

HP replaced the motherboard about a year after I bought it, thinking the motherboard was failing. It worked great for a while, but started with it's wackiness once again.

Funny how putting the USB wireless adapter in usually wakes up the wireless card, though.

My fix of putting it to sleep and waking it up only worked a few times, and now doesn't work.

I will ditch the power saving features, as you suggested, while it's plugged in, and see if that doesn't help.

An IT person at my kid's school showed me how to turn off the damned switch in Set Up, as the Dell laptops at their school do the same thing. The kids kept turning the switches off, and he got tired of being called to the school to manually flip the switch (the teachers didn't realize there was a hard switch).

I suppose it would be easy enough to turn the thing back on.

Other than the wireless issue, and yes, the sleeping for no reason issue, it's been pretty solid for a PC. The fan runs a lot, which is why I suspected the BIOS issue, but still, flashed it, nothing changed. Fans seem to run a lot in older machines, from what I understand, anyway. That I can live with. I almost more fear it WON'T run, than it running too much. Yes, I cleaned it 🙂 

[Manon]

MoBo=Motherboard

HP had a recall on these motherboards a while back, and that's how I got mine fixed for free, even though it was past the warantee date.

Machine STILL does this number, and was out for a bit, yesterday, even with all the fixes.

It primarily does this when my laptop's lid is closed. Even if I select "shutdown" in the options, it will do this crap. So I have a feeling it's more something with the switches for the lid, or the energy saving features. 

Could be the motherboard, but why would HP replace a bad motherboard with another  bad one?

[Manon]

Tried the scan. What should've taken 90 seconds was taking way too long, So I exited it. Sorry.