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| Thread ID: 138680 | 2015-01-06 01:10:00 | Win XP on a VERY old Sony Vaio ... can't get wireless working. | SP8's (9836) | Press F1 |
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| 1391580 | 2015-01-06 01:10:00 | Happy New Year everyone ... hope you are either over the hangover or having a stiff G&T for breakfast !! OK ... I've been given a circa 1920's Sony Vaio Lappy / boat anchor that was chocked full of every know malware to man. Tried cleaning it, gave up and did a fresh install ... everything went OK until an update came through and I lost wireless and touchpad. Tried upgrade and fresh install of win 7 with the same result. It seems as though one of the updates is stuffing it up, but I haven't got a clue which one and it's starting to affect my mental health. Formatted the high capacity 60GB HD and tried a bootable Linux Mint on it ... fabulous ... picked up the wireless no problem at all ... installed it onto the HD and what happened ? ... it updated itself and no wireless, no touchpad. Formated HD again, installed XP, turned off updates ... still no action on the wireless, but touchpad OK. Went onto Sony site, downloaded driver update, installed, still no go. Tried every help forum, done ping tests which were OK ... I know it has wireless ... it knows it has wireless ... I am doing my head in and on my third bottle (large) of Coruba. It's something simple ... I can feel it ... My backside has gone into hiding, knowing full well it's in for the kicking of a lifetime. Any help would be appreciated ... and yes ... I do realise that chucking it into the skip and buying another may be the best option, but I'm not going to let this piece of $h!t beat me ... Starting point to solve would be good Specs are: P4 - 1GB Ram - 60GB HD - Network Realtek RTL8139. Speccy telling me - Wi-Fi Info ... not enabled. I have been able to get the Wi-Fi coming up on Network ONCE, but can't remember what I did to get it there. And yes ... the wireless is switched on and light going ... |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1391581 | 2015-01-06 01:31:00 | Not some power management setting turning it off or something? Also some drivers put their own control panel program in for enabling, wi-fi, scanning for networks , etc and it overides the default windows one by default. To get wifi working on my work XP laptop I had to set it to use the default windows one somewhere in that program. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1391582 | 2015-01-06 01:33:00 | XP would also need SP3 for wireless to work properly | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1391583 | 2015-01-06 01:55:00 | Is there a WiFi on/off switch on the laptop physically? Try turning off the firewall. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1391584 | 2015-01-06 02:04:00 | Got SP3 on it Speedy ... It's all good on ethernet and I know for certain that the wireless worked previously. | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1391585 | 2015-01-06 02:32:00 | Is there a WiFi on/off switch on the laptop physically? Last line of OP Nomad ... I actually edited the OP to include that there WAS a SWITCH and it was TURNED ON ... absolutely new someone would ask that question ... :waughh: |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1391586 | 2015-01-06 03:01:00 | What is the status of the Wireless card in device manager? | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1391587 | 2015-01-06 03:03:00 | No offence meant Nomad ... just had a bet with myself and won another bottle of Rum thanks to you :thumbs: | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1391588 | 2015-01-06 06:39:00 | Alex ... it was in device manager but it seems to have done a runner. Just restored to original and will start again ... in a month or so. | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1391589 | 2015-01-06 12:38:00 | Have you tried resetting the bios to defaults? | apsattv (7406) | ||
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