My Laptop Needs a Doctor

Filed Under (Daily Posts) by Cynthia on Feb 25, 2009 10:56 am

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Poop, Crap, Yuck… every bad word you can imagine!  I have to take my laptop into the shop, and I really don’t want to.  Bleh.  It’s going to be a super huge pain to be without my laptop for who knows how many days…

I will probably take it in this week. My vista laptop is no longer recognizing it’s own wireless network card. And I assume that to fix this, they will have to wipe the hard drive. I do have everything backed up though so hopefully it won’t be too bad to reinstall apps when I get it back. Bleh.

From what I’ve read on the web about this problem with Pavillion Notebooks, most likely the motherboard will have to be replaced. Because the wireless network card is built in to the motherboard.  Sometimes the laptop will detect the card, but mostly it won’t.  So from home I’m plugged in by cable. From work I won’t have my laptop at all, I’ll just have my work PC.  Hrmph.

Well, I hope to get the laptop back quickly. I’m going to call HP first and see if they can walk me through a problem. Wish me bunches of luck.

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4 Comments

  1. Scott on 26.02.2009 at 06:21 (Reply)

    I hope you get your laptop really soon. It could be a bummer to have the laptop repaired. My whole life is in my laptop. There was just that one time when I had to surrender it for repair and I felt that I lost an arm or a leg for one weekend.

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  2. Dennis the Vizsla (7 comments.) on 26.02.2009 at 08:47 (Reply)

    Sounds like it might be less of a PITA to get a cheapie wireless dongle and scrap the junky motherboard one. If it failed once, it’ll fail again, that’s my motto …

  3. Chris (177 comments.) on 26.02.2009 at 13:53 (Reply)

    eek. Good Luck. Under warrenty still? Ours is gosh darn slow. We need to have A look it over :) XO

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  4. David Kubeja on 27.02.2009 at 09:55 (Reply)

    You know we have almost the same setup…what about a 3G card for you pcmi slot. Ilove mine.

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