As the title reads, I have a HP Pavilion g6-2238SL with the following info and issues:
- motherboard: DA0R33MB6F1 aka Quanta R33 Rev F, HP P/N 680569-501
- current WiFi card: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 (BIOS does not restrict WiFi cards, apparently
- CPU: Core i3-2330M (originally had a Pentium B960)
- HDD: Hitachi Z7K500 500GB SATA3
- ODD: Pioneer DVD-RW
- RAM: 2x4GB DDR3-1333, Nanya + ASint
Issue: Laptop will boot into Windows, but Wi-Fi led remains amber until it's put into Sleep mode. WiFi card is detected but shown as turned off and is unable to turn it on. Once it's resumed from sleep, Wi-Fi LED turns white and Windows shows all Wi-Fi points to connect to. Restarting does not help as LED remains amber, unless laptop has been put to Sleep at least ONCE after it has been cold booted.
When did the issue happen: after updating BIOS to F.27 Rev A from HP site. WLAN did switch correctly with older BIOS (F.14 I think, not sure but it was much older than the one I installed.) and worked as intended.
What have I tried:
- various WLAN cards (surprisingly BIOS never checked for whitelist which resulted in being able to use any card) including the one that was listed under the battery (Ralink RT5390) to no avail - all do the same thing as the Intel Centrino 1030
- various clean installed HDDs with three different Windows (7 Ultimate, 8.1 Pro and 10 Enterprise LTSC), all do the same thing - cold boot will not activate WLAN, putting Windows to Sleep/Hibernate will.
- two different sticks of RAM of same size (Micron + Hynix) with no difference whatsoever
What I have not tried
- cleaning the ME region - I don't know how to do this and would appreciate if someone can help me do it without externally programming it (I don't have a programmer at the moment and cannot afford one currently.) as I figure it may solve the issue.
- replacing the motherboard altogether - this would be a last resort,replacing it with the AMD counterpart (APU + 7670M)
I am open to suggestions.
- motherboard: DA0R33MB6F1 aka Quanta R33 Rev F, HP P/N 680569-501
- current WiFi card: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 (BIOS does not restrict WiFi cards, apparently
- CPU: Core i3-2330M (originally had a Pentium B960)
- HDD: Hitachi Z7K500 500GB SATA3
- ODD: Pioneer DVD-RW
- RAM: 2x4GB DDR3-1333, Nanya + ASint
Issue: Laptop will boot into Windows, but Wi-Fi led remains amber until it's put into Sleep mode. WiFi card is detected but shown as turned off and is unable to turn it on. Once it's resumed from sleep, Wi-Fi LED turns white and Windows shows all Wi-Fi points to connect to. Restarting does not help as LED remains amber, unless laptop has been put to Sleep at least ONCE after it has been cold booted.
When did the issue happen: after updating BIOS to F.27 Rev A from HP site. WLAN did switch correctly with older BIOS (F.14 I think, not sure but it was much older than the one I installed.) and worked as intended.
What have I tried:
- various WLAN cards (surprisingly BIOS never checked for whitelist which resulted in being able to use any card) including the one that was listed under the battery (Ralink RT5390) to no avail - all do the same thing as the Intel Centrino 1030
- various clean installed HDDs with three different Windows (7 Ultimate, 8.1 Pro and 10 Enterprise LTSC), all do the same thing - cold boot will not activate WLAN, putting Windows to Sleep/Hibernate will.
- two different sticks of RAM of same size (Micron + Hynix) with no difference whatsoever
What I have not tried
- cleaning the ME region - I don't know how to do this and would appreciate if someone can help me do it without externally programming it (I don't have a programmer at the moment and cannot afford one currently.) as I figure it may solve the issue.
- replacing the motherboard altogether - this would be a last resort,replacing it with the AMD counterpart (APU + 7670M)
I am open to suggestions.
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