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Problem solved. Brought my laptop back home, booted up this morning and there was my Wi-Fi! Maybe it needed an overnight nap instead of a hard reboot. Paul, thanks for your suggestion about the BIOS.
HH

Problem solved. A reboot was all that was required. Thanks for your suggestions.
HH

Good idea. Will try it soon. But, what cause IE to launch only my home page, regardless of the link? If I paste the link into Firefox, it works fine. Ditto if pasted into new tab in IE.
HH

Gerald, you nailed it! Forgot about System Restore, which I haven’t used in a while. It worked and I can now print everything from Quicken. I had to use SR twice. The first failed for some unknown reason, so I went back another two days to perform a successful Restore.

Tim, thanks for your comments. I had previously checked all the print settings and they were correct. I could not print reports or anything from Quicken.
I love this Lounge.
HH

I am suggesting that you get rid of the section break in your document and instead use the different first page header option.

Your “First Page Header, Section 2” label means you have a section break in the document. As you have probably noticed using a section break means–that to get what you want– you have to type up to the page limit and then move the cursor to the other side of the section beak and continue typing. If, when you copy and paste, the copied text goes past the page limit, you then have to move the overflow to the other side of the section break.

Thanks again, all, for your comments. Pam, your last post was very helpful. Your comments about typing up to the section break, then moving the cursor beyond the break was right on. When I pasted text from my other document, which was more than one page, the pasted text screwed up my second page header.
Two more questions. If my document doesn’t have a section break, can I still create different fist page without adding a break? I thought that the break was a prerequisite for different first page.
And, if I don’t have a section break, will the header say Second Page Header?
HH

Thanks to all for your comments. Andrew; there is no section break in the text I am copying. Jeanne, Macropod; the Paste Special Unformatted seems to work, but not consistently. Pam, I did set up a different first page header, but I did page 1 first, rather than last, as your reference suggests. I will try it that way and report back. What is interesting is that my second page header says “First Page Header, Section 2”. Is that because I started with page 1? What should it say, if done correctly? BTW, that was a very good article on setting up templates.
HH

Apparently the iPad, like my iMac, is smart enough to automatically adjust and connect under this set of circumstances. Hope this helps.

All my machines were confirmed as using the WPA2 protocol.

Right on, Gerald. I think my iPad, like your iMac, is smart enough to adjust automatically.

That should do it for this thread. Thanks to all for your comments and suggestions.
HH

Not quite. The second router is set to WAP, but the password was not changed. The laptop was set to WAP for that network. The iPad was not changed to WAP, since it connected automatically. What security protocol is the iPad using?
HH

Thanks, Paul, that’s a lucid description of the communication. I’m still puzzled about how the data encryption works. If the router is set to WPA2 (what I use at location 1) and the iPad to WEP, does the data get encrypted using WEP, the lowest common protocol?
HH

Thanks for the replies. Russ, you are right on the money. I actually have two routers, in different locations. When I configured the first location for WAP I did change the password (thanks for the link, Roderunner) and I had to reconfigure the laptop and the iPad. When I did the second location I used the old password and the iPad connected automatically. Does that mean that the iPad is using WEP? If so, how does it do that when the router is set to WAP? I thought that would cause an error.
HH

Read the MS KB article again. Nothing relevant except driver updates. Updated three drivers; Realtek audio, nVidia nForce Serial ATA controller, Brother HL 5140 printer. Rebooted, checked for updates again, no SP2. What’s next?
HH

Problem Solved! Would you believe that there was a typo in the WEP Key? I went into the router to review all the parameters and found the router’s WEP key was one digit off from the one I entered. I had been using the WEP key that the Verizon tech had e-mailed to me after he helped me configure the router. How’s that for help?
I can now see the Internet and the router shows my laptop and all the computers on my network. Whoopee!
Thanks to all you Loungers for your suggestions. I’ve learned a lot from this thread.
Howard

Your settings are correct for DHCP, however we have already determined that your problem is deeper then just not receiving an address from DHCP as when you assigned the address statically you STILL did not have connection to the network. Obviously if you are not connected to the router, you cannot obtain a DHCP address from it.

OK, but how do explain that the laptop wireless connection says “Connected, Signal Strength Excellent, Speed 54 mbs”. I think it also says (I’m away from the laptop) “packets sent 50, packets received 0”. This suggests that the router is not responding.
HH

Thanks to Carroll and Terry for their responses. No I don’t think it’s the nVidia problem (thank goodness) because I think my video would have died by now (I followed several HP forums on that subject a year or more ago).
As for the router, Verizon walked me through reconfiguring it last week. After that I was able to see other nearby networks. The problem seems to be with the DHCP not giving my laptop an automatic IP address. Putting in a manual address, 192.168.1.210, didn’t help. I’ve been reading up on the Autoconfiguration IP Address, 169.254.167.22. This is supposed to be for a network that does NOT have a DHCP server. My router does. Looking at my ip.txt file I see Autoconfiguration Enabled is Yes. Perhaps that conflicts with DHCP Enabled.
I can’t test that now because I am out of town without my laptop. When I return I will test that and will also take my laptop to a neighbor and see if I can log onto her network.
I’ll post those results in a few days.
Thanks again for everyone’s suggestions.
Howard

What model HP laptop is the one with the original problem? The reason I ask is because there are several models of HP laptops with nVidia graphics chips that have a design flaw. If the laptop gets rather hot, the solder securing the nVidia chip in its socket melts, causing the chip to “creep up”, eventually causing the video to quit working.

One of the early signs of a problem like this is wifi that quits working. Check out the following link to a thread on HP’s support site:

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Display-and-video/HP-Pavillion-TX1000-series-common-GPU-display-motherboard/td-p/65739

The thread talks about the HP TX1000, but there are apparently other models that had/have the same problem.

The laptop model is HP Pavilion dv9030 US that is 3.5 years old. I do have that nVidia chip and last year read all about the problems it caused. So far my video is fine, but the loss of wireless as an early warning seems ominous to me. For now I will turn the laptop off for the weekend and try it after it cools down.
I still think it’s a router problem since I have tried two other, working, wireless laptops with the same results. They can log into my wireless network but can’t get a good connection.
HH