Showing posts with label losing Wi-Fi after installing Windows 7 over XP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label losing Wi-Fi after installing Windows 7 over XP. Show all posts
Yesterday did not go according to plan at all. My free time was completely eaten up by OPCPs -- Other People's Computer Problems. I wasn't able to fix the second OPCP: Jezzi's Acer, but I was able to solve the first one over breakfast.
OPCP number one: Henry's laptop gains Windows 7, but loses it's wireless
[caption id="attachment_5625" align="alignnone" width="497"]
After the fix, Henry searches for "server pack," rather than "service pack."[/caption]
Homeless Henry had a nice Toshiba laptop, but by June, he hadn't. Something went wrong -- the laptop equivalent of shaken baby syndrome, I think. This week Henry found two working laptops in one evening: An HP Pavilion dv6000, and a Dell Inspiron. The Dell looked to be the better, newer, laptop, but had a password. The HP Pavilion, on the other hand, like a junker car, was completely unlocked. I saw both laptops the morning after Henry found them. The HP went online effortlessly, but Henry couldn't log onto his Facebook page -- the same problem we'd had with his Toshiba, for the same reason -- the HP "thought" the year was 2006, it's manufacture date. Fixing the date allowed Henry to get onto his Facebook page.
My so-called "tank-top" is also a dv6000, but not identical to Henry's, which seems older. It's product number is: rn914ua#abl. The HP Product Specifications for that number don't sound worse, but I subsequently pimped my dv6000's specs considerably.
OPCP number one: Henry's laptop gains Windows 7, but loses it's wireless
[caption id="attachment_5625" align="alignnone" width="497"]
After the fix, Henry searches for "server pack," rather than "service pack."[/caption]Homeless Henry had a nice Toshiba laptop, but by June, he hadn't. Something went wrong -- the laptop equivalent of shaken baby syndrome, I think. This week Henry found two working laptops in one evening: An HP Pavilion dv6000, and a Dell Inspiron. The Dell looked to be the better, newer, laptop, but had a password. The HP Pavilion, on the other hand, like a junker car, was completely unlocked. I saw both laptops the morning after Henry found them. The HP went online effortlessly, but Henry couldn't log onto his Facebook page -- the same problem we'd had with his Toshiba, for the same reason -- the HP "thought" the year was 2006, it's manufacture date. Fixing the date allowed Henry to get onto his Facebook page.
My so-called "tank-top" is also a dv6000, but not identical to Henry's, which seems older. It's product number is: rn914ua#abl. The HP Product Specifications for that number don't sound worse, but I subsequently pimped my dv6000's specs considerably.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)