HP Pavilion Laptop Taking Forever Before Connecting to Wi-Fi

[tb75252]

I have an HP Pavilion DM4-2070us with Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit).
The Wi-Fi network adapter installed is a Centrino Wireless-N 1000.

For the past four weeks it has taken "forever" (about 3 minutes) before the laptop can connect to the Wi-Fi network. Upon booting up, a red "X" appears on top of the wireless network icon (the icon with five
vertical bars) in the Taskbar. Approximately three minutes later the red "X" disappears and I have Internet connection.

I am current with Microsoft patches and I have even installed the most current Centrino Wireless-N 1000 driver that I could find at the Intel web site. (The HP support site was of no use...)

I have opened a command prompt as an administrator and entered these commands:

netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /registerdns
exit

... and rebooted the computer. Things did not improve.

I have a couple of other laptops that are connecting to the same Wi-Fi network without problems, so I don't think that it is the router to be blamed.

What could possibly be the culprit of this sudden three-minute delay in connecting to Wi-Fi?

 

[ICIT2LOL]

hello and welcome TB mate finding HP drivers is an absolute nightmare (par for the course) and this is the closest I can get to the Centrino adaptor https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&FamilyId=1783&ProductID=3229&ProdId=3229 I think this is a driver problem or the adaptor is on the blink. Usually if it means replacing the adaptor it is not a big job but having worked on Toshibas more than HP's I cannot say for sure but will have a look round.