20 Most Recent HP Pavilion ze5170 Notebook Questions & Answers

Try turning on onscreen keyboard and using that instead

You'd have to flash BIOS and that is very tricky. You risk smoking your machine.

1. The PC has to support booting from a USB flash/pen/key drive. There may be anywhere from 0-3 items to change in the BIOS to make this possible assuming your BIOS supports it. Some older bios's may refer to your flash drive as a USB floppy or USB zip. 2. The USB flash drive must support booting from it in general. 3. The flash drive must contain the boot/system files. 4. The flash drive must have bootsector area. This is done with special utilities. 5. References to "A:" drive lines in the autoexec.bat and/or config.sys files you copy to the drive after you make it bootable may result in errors. 6. There are several programs available if you do a Google search that will help you make your USB Flash Drive bootable as well.

did you check in the BIOS settings. Sometimes you have to enable that first to make it visible

Put your CMOS from your motherboard and put it again

You could try a high gain wifi usb adapter (dongle), it may be better than the built in transceiver. Click on ebay and search with the term "high gain wifi usb adapter" . There are plenty to choose from and the results should give you an idea of what I'm on about.

hello,
-it can be that the computer is not detecting the operating system w/c is windows or the hard disk drive cannot be detected by the computer as well.
cheers

try uninstalling a few unnecessary programs then click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/r/f this should schedule to happen on reboot which will scan for and attempt to recover bad sectors and automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive or control panel administrive tools,computer management ,disk management right click on your drive select properties click tools you should see click check now click start two boxes automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in both boxes then select check now,start should schedule this task when restart defragment your hard drive will speed up your computer scroll to the bottom toolbar (bottom of screen) right click you can select task manager applications also processes you will see whats running on your computer you might have virus slowing your computer also select users you will see who is using your computer hope this helps

Hi,

That model does not have an in built wireless card, you would have to get a wireless dongle.


Regards.

First verify that any hardwire switch on the laptop is turned on. Some laptops have them and some don't. If that's not it, open the control panel, select system maintenance, then device manager. In device manager, scroll down to network adapters and click the "+" to see them. Right click on the wireless adapter and a menu should pop up. Pick enable from the menu. If enable is not on the menu, click properties. On the general properties tab, it should say if there is a problem with the adapter. You can go thru the tabs and see if updating or back dating the driver will help, etc.

Try this. Have the laptop turned off. Turn it on and see what key to press to enter Setup/BIOS. Once you get into the Setup/BIOS, fix the date and time in there, then save and exit. Boot back to Windows and fix it there also and you should be good from there. If not, then the motherboard battery is dead and you need to get that replaced.

Cheers!

Ignore it, it just means it could run faster if you had USB 2.0 but almost all USB devices are backward compatible to standard (USB 1)

Go into your CMOS settings by hitting the delete key while it is powering up and before it goes into windows. Once your there you can make the changes you need to and should be ok.

Power drain would be a better solution in this case.
1.first shut down the comp
2.unplug the charger
3. remove the battery
and after press and hold the power button for 60 seconds without any charger and the battery.After the 60 seconds replug the battery and the charger and turn the computer

Ya need to replace the cmos battery inside your notebook,
If this is too much of a project, take it to a computer shop that YOU trust

your new installed software is causing for this problem so you need to either uninstall that software for
reboot your computer and while beginning of the booting just hit F8 key and u will be taken to safe mode from there choose Last Known Good configuration and hit enter.
that should fix and problem still remains then you need to repair driver for your Keyboard and Mouse.

Thanks

For this thing you can do one thing go to the safe mode with networking option and do a system restore to an earlier date and i m sure it will load. And doing a bios update would be a handy one go to hp.com website and download the latest version of bios and update it to your computer.

when you are installing xp, just after first restart go to bios and set HDD as first boot device

If you have an os disk or restore disk you can put that in and at the HP logo hit F12 that will take you to the boot menu choose boot from cd and then when prompted choose repair

Hard drive is most likely defective.