I'm away from home at the moment, and having some problems with a
laptop.  It's an HP Pavilion "Model 818", purchased from Best Buy in
December.
  At the end of February, HP's "Support Assistant" program notified me
to download and install half a dozen updates.  I did -- and wireless
hasn't worked since.  The desktop shortcut I set up to allow easy
enabling/disabling of Wifi now just tells me "Wi-Fi could not be found."
 I had a chance to hook it to a wired network and do a fresh download
and install of the drivers for the Wifi adapter, but that hasn't made
any difference.
  The machine has a 1 TB hard drive, which I've partitioned intending to
dual-boot to Ubuntu Linux.  All that's stopping me is that I can't get
it to boot from the install CD.  I believe I set all the BIOS options to
enable booting from the CD drive, but it doesn't, and now pressing F2
while booting takes me to a set of hardware diagnostics (I believe one o
those HP updates installed them), all of which pass, but that means I
don't even get to the BIOS settings to check that I enabled them.
  In theory, Best Buy's Geek Squad should help me, but I'm in Canada for
a bit and I don't know if they even have stores anywhere near me...
  Anyone got a constructive suggestion on either issue?  T laptop came
with 64-bit Windows 10 home, so fr now that's the OS I've got access
to...

  David Gillett  CISSP CCNP

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