Problems with laptop

krustydoyle

Well folks,

Few problems with my laptop and I just need advice or opinions please...

It stopped locating the wireless in my apartment Wednesday night so now I have to use the cable from the modem to use it now..

And when I boot it up now the screen goes a funny colour of grey for a minute or two then comes right..

Any quick ways of fixing these or is it about to give up on me and I'll have to buy a new model.

Thanks in advance

mordeith

krustydoyle wrote: »

Well folks,

Few problems with my laptop and I just need advice or opinions please...

It stopped locating the wireless in my apartment Wednesday night so now I have to use the cable from the modem to use it now..

Is that the only wifi connection it can't pick up? Might be worth re-installing the wifi driver if it can't detect any networks. Is there a hardware switch to disable the wifi that you may accidentally activated?

krustydoyle wrote: »

And when I boot it up now the screen goes a funny colour of grey for a minute or two then comes right..

Any quick ways of fixing these or is it about to give up on me and I'll have to buy a new model.

Sounds like it's either (a) your screen or (b) the GPU. If you can hook the laptop up to an external display you'll be able to figure out which. If the colour issue is replicated on the external monitor then your GPU is damaged.

krustydoyle

Sorry i should of said i am a complete novice at this stuff, so how do i reinstall the wifi driver?? And its not picking up any wireless networks in my apartment block..

Ill connect the laptop up to my tele and see what happens the screen then.

mordeith

krustydoyle wrote: »

And its not picking up any wireless networks in my apartment block..

Just for clarity, is the WiFi definitely on (your laptop)?

krustydoyle

Yes it is, i have it connected via an ethernet cable now but when i went to connect to the wireless wednesday night it couldn't detect any of the wireless networks.

mordeith

krustydoyle wrote: »

Yes it is, i have it connected via an ethernet cable now but when i went to connect to the wireless wednesday night it couldn't detect any of the wireless networks.

Follow this guide (if you Windows 8)

http://www.microcenter.com/tech_center/article/7619/How_to_remove_and_reinstall_Wireless_Drivers_in_Windows_8

krustydoyle

i upgraded ti to windows 10 a while ago

mordeith

Should be the same process

PropJoe10

krustydoyle wrote: »

Yes it is, i have it connected via an ethernet cable now but when i went to connect to the wireless wednesday night it couldn't detect any of the wireless networks.

See if there's a wireless on/off hardware switch anywhere on it, that might have gotten turned off by mistake. Check along the sides or front of the laptop.

Or, there could be a key combination to turn the wireless on. It's usually the Fn button combined with one of the function keys along the top - look for one with a wireless symbol on it.

lescol

First thing to try is to right click on the wifi symbol in the taskbar, click "Troubleshoot Problems" and see what it reports.

krustydoyle

It's telling me to plug an Ethernet cable into the router when I did that..

krustydoyle

Well folks,

Thanks for the replies.. The wireless adapter needed to be updated so I've done that now and it's working perfectly.. Now all I need is to sort that screen issue out.