I have 2 laptops and my regular home computer. I have a wireless router.

My HP laptop for some reason , all of the sudden, does not pick up the signal from the router so I cant get online with it. This happened last week, so I tried my Dell laptop and it worked fine so I knew it wasnt the router.

It didnt work for a couple days so I fired it up to look deeper into the problem to see if maybe some setting had been changed by my 6 year old and it was working. Hmmm. When I say working, it works just fine. Just that it has not been picking up the router.

So a week goes by and now its not picking up the router signal again. My Dell laptop is sitll getting the router signal just fine.

Any ideas?

What router do you have? What kind of wireless connection does the HP use? I might be able to help you out.

Ice,

Check out the following on the Laptop (Windows XP):

-Control Panel - System - Hardware tab -then select Device Manager.

Look for the "Network adapters" and click on it. it will show all the available network adapters you have. if they are showing a yellow exclamation mark there might be a problem.

in case you have the yellow mark, right click on the adapter /select Properties.

Is possible that the following windows says what could be wrong there. Check the troubleshooting by pressing the "troubleshoot..." button

You might be able to work it out there if there is no physical problems with the adapter.

AlexMR.

haha, and i thought i would have to use some of my comp knowledge... bad design but good thing you spotted it

Back when I was servicing computers.... I had an HP laptop with the freaking feature I was working on. Took me like 2 hours to figure out. God that one pissed me off.