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I officially hate my laptop and Windows Vista. Its not even 2 years old, but in the technology world its getting to be middle aged. For a year and a half its worked fine, and then the other day I try to get online and its not connecting. So I do what any normal person would do, I power cycle the cable modem, the wireless router, and the laptop and still no luck. I get online with my desktop and know that the internet is working via cable, I connect my iPhone to the Wi-Fi and thats working as well. So I start messing around with the laptop and realize that the wireless card light is orange not blue when its on, so i flip the switch to off and then back on, nothing...I shut down my laptop and restart it, nothing.....I go and dig a cat5 cable out of the closet (and am grateful I saved all those stupid little cat5 cables for this exact issue) and am able to connect via Ethernet, but still no wireless. Now that I'm online via Ethernet, I go through my systems one by one and start updating my hp devices. I try to update all my vista stuff too, there is one update that gives me an error message. It has to do with the wireless and will not update and when I try to fix the error it puts me to the device and driver page, where I cannot find my wireless device or driver.