Ok computer experts! Explain this one to me!

[Amlee]

My built in wifi stopped working Wednesday morning. It worked fine when I turned my computer off Tuesday night. I get up Wednesday and I'm told I have to download new updates from Microsoft. When that is all said and done my wifi wouldn't work. Have been hardwired ever since. I called HP and spent around 6 hours on the phone with them while they worked on my computer. The guy even had me open up the back and remove the wifi card and reinstall it. No good. He said I would just have to send it in.

Right now, that just isn't an option as I need my computer. So I today went to go purchase an external USB wifi. I get home and put the disk in my computer. My computer tells me the drivers are loaded. The next thing I know my built in wifi is NOW working.

How is that?

I have put the disk and the USB wifi back in it's box and things are back to normal.

 

[pr surfer]

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8830/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/104)

Have you done a system restore the the point before the MS updates?

 

[Amlee]

Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of when it happened. It did nothing for it. The HP tech didn't believe me, so he had me do it again and still nothing happened.

I called HP right after the wifi started working again and told them what happened. The tech said it wasn't possible. I told him I didn't know if it was possible or not. But when I installed the drivers for the USB wifi, my built in wifi started working.

 

[Amlee]

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8830/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/104)

Have you done a system restore the the point before the MS updates?

More importantly how are you posting from your blackberry!? I try and locks mine up. I also have an 8830.