HP Pavilion zv5000 laptop can't connect to interrnet

Hi,
I replaced the failed 30 gig hard drive in the laptop with a new 60 gig one
I got from newegg. I installed xp home with the dvd that came with the
laptop. I then installed the drivers that came with the driver dvd.
All ok in device manager except for nic card. Went to hp web site
and downloaded updated driver, and now the yellow exclamation
point went away.

I have a router, wifi, with bellsouth service. I use it on 2 pc's, and a
compaq laptop. the pc's connect via cat 5, one is windows ME, and
the other is XP Home. Both work fine. Laptop is wifi, and it works
fine, too, with XP Home.

Back to the pavilion, the wifi doesn't see any wifi signal. Its as if
the wifi was turned off, but i don't see a switch on the case anywhere,
and there was nothing about it in the bios that i could find.
Plugging in the cat 5 cable also results in no connection.

Any ideas on how to proceed? Everything else seems to be
working fine, but i didn't try dialing up anything yet. Also, there
is no software installed yet. I thought I'd see if i can get it to connect
before installing software and complicating things further.

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Mike

I got the wifi going.
Still working on the cat 5 problem


"Mike Hollywood" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I replaced the failed 30 gig hard drive in the laptop with a new 60 gig
> one
> I got from newegg. I installed xp home with the dvd that came with the
> laptop. I then installed the drivers that came with the driver dvd.
> All ok in device manager except for nic card. Went to hp web site
> and downloaded updated driver, and now the yellow exclamation
> point went away.
>
> I have a router, wifi, with bellsouth service. I use it on 2 pc's, and a
> compaq laptop. the pc's connect via cat 5, one is windows ME, and
> the other is XP Home. Both work fine. Laptop is wifi, and it works
> fine, too, with XP Home.
>
> Back to the pavilion, the wifi doesn't see any wifi signal. Its as if
> the wifi was turned off, but i don't see a switch on the case anywhere,
> and there was nothing about it in the bios that i could find.
> Plugging in the cat 5 cable also results in no connection.
>
> Any ideas on how to proceed? Everything else seems to be
> working fine, but i didn't try dialing up anything yet. Also, there
> is no software installed yet. I thought I'd see if i can get it to
> connect
> before installing software and complicating things further.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>
> Mike
>