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RiverOfLove

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    wireless adapter
    « on: July 20, 2011, 03:07:34 AM »
    hi guys, hopefully one of u geniuses can help me....

    my hard drive crashed recently in my presario cq 60 111em laptop....
    i took the hard drive from my sisters toshiba (works fine) and put it into my laptop... all good so far
    can access everything desktop control pnel etc etc .... but my wireless adapter thats built into my laptop (Atheros Ar5bxb63) isnt showing up on the device manager
    isnt working etc etc... ive tried getting the drivers for it and putting them on a disc and unzipping and installing... but i fail at computers and think i did it wrong... i honestly am hopeless and would love some help getting me back online :)
    thank you kindly
    Aaron

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    RiverOfLove

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      Re: wireless adapter
      « Reply #1 on: July 20, 2011, 06:01:27 AM »
      ok
       well
       i went to the BIOS settings in startup
      it said the network adapter was disabled
      i enabled it
      and now when i click the button it responds
       but its still not showing up on the device list and it wont turn on it just says WLAN is disabled
      everytime i try to click it
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      patio

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      « Reply #2 on: July 20, 2011, 07:34:27 AM »
      You got extremely lucky that swapping a drive from her machine to yours would even boot...
      Are you just going to keep her hard drive ? ? Or will you be returning it ?
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      RiverOfLove

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        Re: wireless adapter
        « Reply #3 on: July 20, 2011, 07:40:47 AM »
        keeping it my old one is bust and my sisters laptop screen has shattered, all works fine apart from this :/
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        patio

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        Re: wireless adapter
        « Reply #4 on: July 20, 2011, 07:48:36 AM »
        Just wanted to make sure as this procedure would have buggered it for use in her machine...

        Re-install all the drivers from your laptop Driver CD...
        MBoard chipset drivers go 1st...
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        RiverOfLove

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          Re: wireless adapter
          « Reply #5 on: July 20, 2011, 07:58:54 AM »
          have no discs :/ no manuals :/ and the moral of this story.... LMAO
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          Re: wireless adapter
          « Reply #6 on: July 20, 2011, 08:16:10 AM »
          Then travel to the laptop manuf. site...search by your Model# and OS...
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          RiverOfLove

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            Re: wireless adapter
            « Reply #7 on: July 20, 2011, 08:17:57 AM »
            ok so do i need all the drivers or just motherboard oones?
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            Re: wireless adapter
            « Reply #8 on: July 20, 2011, 08:25:25 AM »
            all the drivers because you do not have any drivers present.
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            RiverOfLove

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              Re: wireless adapter
              « Reply #9 on: July 20, 2011, 11:13:21 AM »
              thank you kindly went into bios fiddled a bit ut figured it :)
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              Re: wireless adapter
              « Reply #10 on: July 20, 2011, 02:15:00 PM »
              The BIOS has nothing to do with your issue...you need ALL the drivers installed for everything to work properly.
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