[Vaillant]

Hey folks, once again, I come to you for your expertise.

Got a new laptop, an HP dv9017ca. This model has a wireless antenna (like most laptops) good for A,B,G,and Draft N.
That isnt the issue.

For some reason, which I cant quite figure out, the wireless causes my bootup to hang now. Here's how it happens exactly.

I had the system fully setup, everything working perfectly. Turn the laptop off, and overnight the problem appeared. Now, if I leave the wireless connection enabled in the network connections, it freezes my login.... IE programs halt loading alltogether, only have the processes, services and applications get loaded, as if it was eternally hanging.

I use acronis trueimage to do backups of my systems, and disable system restore to save space on the C: partition. So I said to myself "what the hay, just re-image the windows partition with the image I made 2 days ago while it was working fine"

so thats what I did, and yes, the very next day, it re-started exhibiting the same behaviour.

I understand, through googling this, that its not an uncommon problem, but I couldnt find a fix for my specific symptoms.

Please advise, thx.

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Is there a physical switch to turn the wireless off on the outside of the laptop? If there is does it make a difference when you boot up?

If you disable the wireless you dont have any lag issues?

[jaxisland]

Is there a physical switch to turn the wireless off on the outside of the laptop? If there is does it make a difference when you boot up?

If you disable the wireless you dont have any lag issues?

[Vaillant]

thats the thing, the physical switch is disabled. its the logical connection inside windows that causes the lag, if the logical connection is enabled.

And no, if I disable the wireless in windows, my lag dissapears, hence why I KNOW its from the wireless.

Thx.

[jaxisland]

Ok, I will admit this is the first time Ive seen this, but have you updated all the drivers to your NIC card?

[Vaillant]

fresh install, and yes everything is updated.

[jaxisland]

I would go into Start -> Run -> type "msconfig" without quotes
Click on the startup tab
Disable everything in there, reboot and see if the lag goes away. If it does, re-enable one item at a time to figure out which one is causing the problem.

[Vaillant]

I've already done that. jaxisland, I do appreciate your help, but I've already taken all of the usual troubleshooting steps.
I need Unusual steps to take, haha

thx.

[dsenette]

i've experienced this issue with my laptop as well...and i haven't been able to isolate any specifics...

it's apparent that having the wireless card trying to connect to a network before everything else is loaded is just not efficient...and causes the symptoms you describe

the only sollution i've found is disabeling the card (got a hotkey for that) before shutting down the laptop...then once everything is loaded after bootup....i just enable the card...haven't had an issue since....and it's a really simiple fix

[Vaillant]

Yeah I figured as much. I've already disabled it meantime and I dont use it all that much...

Thanks dsenette