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My daughter purchased a Sony Vaio SVE15115fxs in September. She used it today and shut it down. Tonight she was going to use it and it wouldn't turn on. No lights.
She did take out the battery for a little while and the lights came on but died a few minutes later.
See item #2. The procedure should be the same for Sony as HP.
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Originally Posted by SorryIMovedBack
I have Toshibas, and I'm not familiar with HPs. These are some things that have worked on Toshibas:
1. In Device Manager, network adapters, remove the wireless adapter, then reboot the computer and let Windows find it again.
2. Try a basic system reset and see if this helps bring the wireless back. Power off your system, unplug everything including the AC, remove the battery, press and hold down the power on button for 30 seconds, replace battery and AC, power on, at the HP screen or logo press whatever key it says to enter BIOS Setup, in setup press whatever key to load setup defaults, then save and exit, then try to boot into Windows.
3. If Windows 8 doesn't seem to have a driver, Find out what network card you have and then try to download a driver from the manufacturer's website. Control Panel, System, Device Manager, Network Adapters. (Mine is a Realtek RTL8191SE, and Win8 has a built-in driver.)
If all else fails,since it was a recent purchase and upgrade, you should be able to use the recovery partition on the hard drive to put the machine back to Win7, unless you let Win8 totally reformat and repartition your drive, in which case you probably should purchase recovery disks from HP.
The suggestion I made through the other post should get it back on. Did you miss that? Have you even tried what it said?
How can you do that when the computer won't turn on? We did what you said last night when dead. Still dead. It came on for a few seconds but that was it.
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