HP550 wireless button Stuck on red?

Hi
Hope someone can help
Got an old HP550 notebook it's been fine with nothing going wrong till a couple of days ago.
Was installing different flavours of Linux on the laptop, worked fine till I installed a more recent version of Linux Mint.
Since then the wireless hardware button won't change from red.
I've reinstalled my old copy of XP and updated it to latest SP and made sure the propper XP drivers are installed.
The button is still red. 
During boot the button is blue then once the OS starts it changes to red.
Diagnostics sat the card is fine, it is just that I cant seem to toggle the hardware status.
Ive reset the card and the 2 wireless arial cables no change.
Is the wireless card or the wiring on the way out??
any help hint and tips welcomed!
Laters
Solitaire
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Solitaire

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