Hello.. I was downloading updates through Windows Update a few days ago.. and I selected a few of the drivers that appeared as options. Unfortunately, that was a mistake. My laptop worked fine for a short time before it froze on me.. and the next time I booted.. I could not find the Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN entry in the Local Area Connection (under Network Connections) that I usually have. It does show up under the device manager .. and claims to be working properly.. but.. it really isn't. I can't view any nearby wireless connections at all.. so I really don't think it's a problem with my router or anything like that. There's a switch at near the bottom of my laptop (where I also plug in my headphone and microphone) .. when my wireless connection works, it is a blue light. If it's off/disabled/not working.. it's an orange. When I switch it on/off right at startup.. it freezes the computer. (Not sure if that random info would help... but there you go.) I tried reinstalling the original drivers that came with my computer many many.. MANY times. And I tried looking online for newer drivers from the HP site by looking up my model number and downloading/installing the driver... but nothing. When I do an 'ipconfig /all' .. the Broadcom doesn't show up at all. (So renewing/releasing doesn't work) I tried resetting BIOS settings as well. I looked up the device in device manager and I can't even view my Device Instance ID. (Comes up as: ROOT\MS_PSCHEDMP\0000) Some basic computer specs: dv9005ca HP pavilion Windows XP MCE AMD Turion 64 x2 Anyways... any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

Try boot to safe mode then select LKGC (Last Known Good Configuration) from the safe mode options list. This option starts Windows by using the previous good configuration. i_Xp/VistaUser

Unfortunately.. that didn't work. But thanks for the suggestion! Any other ideas?

Try a system restore. Restore it back to the day before you did the updates.

Yep... I also tried that.. No luck. =X