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My laptop stopped connecting to wireless network but others can

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Anonymous
March 18, 2012 12:49:45 PM

my hp laptop suddenly will not connect to our wireless router. It was fine but now it just stopped connecting. It says wireless connections are available but will not connect to ours. My husbands laptop has not been affected. We have tried everything...resetting the router (multiple times), reinstalling the router. I have not tried to connect anywhere else yet but that is something I am going to try today. What could have happened to the laptop for it to suddenly stop connecting?

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September 5, 2012 10:09:45 PM

You might've switched off the wireless button. There's a key button, above the number 2 key button and it looks like a TOWER. Click that or the F2 button
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October 28, 2013 10:10:31 AM

no thats not the problem i have already tried that
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March 8, 2014 12:10:19 PM

I just bought a brand new hp envy laptop a month ago. It worked for a week and then wouldn't connect to my wifi. Both our tablets worked so I sat and troubleshooted from them for 2 days. Checked driver updates and all sorts of bs trouble shooting. disconnected our router. Called our ISP. Still no change. I decided to take it for a ride. I sat in the mcdonalds parking lot and connected quickly and connection was perfect. sent a few msgs and came back home. unplugged our router completely. DISABLED the wifi on our the laptop. Plugged the router in again and enabled the wifi on hp. took a minute, and i let the laptop find the new signal from the router on it's own. IT WORKED! haven't had an issue for the last 2 weeks. During my adventures on google trying to figure this out i ran into soooo many thread regarding hp's and wifi. Some were fixed through random different actions. But most were not figured out. There seems to be a huge problem. If your computer is not picking up wifi anywhere and you're sure your drivers are up to date and your wifi in enabled correctly, i read some have used a wifi tongle and it works just fine. hope this helps the next crazy manic google searcher.
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March 30, 2014 3:59:47 PM

LunaC said:
I just bought a brand new hp envy laptop a month ago. It worked for a week and then wouldn't connect to my wifi. Both our tablets worked so I sat and troubleshooted from them for 2 days. Checked driver updates and all sorts of bs trouble shooting. disconnected our router. Called our ISP. Still no change. I decided to take it for a ride. I sat in the mcdonalds parking lot and connected quickly and connection was perfect. sent a few msgs and came back home. unplugged our router completely. DISABLED the wifi on our the laptop. Plugged the router in again and enabled the wifi on hp. took a minute, and i let the laptop find the new signal from the router on it's own. IT WORKED! haven't had an issue for the last 2 weeks. During my adventures on google trying to figure this out i ran into soooo many thread regarding hp's and wifi. Some were fixed through random different actions. But most were not figured out. There seems to be a huge problem. If your computer is not picking up wifi anywhere and you're sure your drivers are up to date and your wifi in enabled correctly, i read some have used a wifi tongle and it works just fine. hope this helps the next crazy manic google searcher.


Actually, I bought a USB wifi devic the and now my Internet always works fine.. Though I am still uncertain why the router rejects my laptop's built in wifi
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August 19, 2014 6:55:05 PM

ARobertson1956 said:
no thats not the problem i have already tried that



i've been having the same problem. i'm on windows 8 but hopefully this works for you. open up the avaialble connections where you choose which networks to connect to and right click on your homes connection. choose the option "forget connection" if an option and then try connecting and input your password and it should let you in :) 

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September 4, 2014 6:02:08 PM

No solution but I am very annoyed here, I filled in this question then had to register and my information is now lost!!! So starting again, angrily!! and may not now say exactly what I typed before, I had the same problem, the laptop was sat there minding it's own business and suddenly stopped connecting. It would not reconnect, ditto the above question from Anonymous. This carried on for 8 hours then just as suddenly it connected!!!!!! I did nothing and none of the posted suggestions were of any help. Another laptop sat side by side with this one had no such difficulty and stayed connected. Is the software/hardware getting to clever/complex and doing it's own thing? Have the experts no real clue as to what is happening? These forums /posts are full of amateur comments with no real knowledge appart from guessing/suck it and see. Will some real experts post some constructive and useful/viable/helpful answers?
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September 12, 2014 3:32:03 AM

Thanks for the information. Looks like there are many people in the same boat. Unfortunately it happened, but fortunately, so far, just the once. I hate things occuring for no good reason and without there seeming to be a ready solution. I suppose systems and software are becoming so complex that nobody can foresee all the possible interactions that might come together to cause a glitch.

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