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December 30th, 2004 19:00
D600 Bluetooth enabling and disabling repeatedly
This is my second go around with a D600 bluetooth issue. On my first one, the bluetooth radio simply died, showed not installed in the bios. Dell replaced the motherboard and everything worked great for about a month. Beginning a few days ago, the bluetooth radio will disable itself, then a unkown USB device message pops up on the task bar, then if I am lucky the bluetooth adapter will magically enable again a few minutes or so later. This repeats itself over and over and over.
I have the latest bios, drivers, etc, installed. From reading the many posts on bluetooth, sounds like this might again be a motherboard issue with the bluetooth adapter or chip coming loose? Is this something that I can reseat?
Thanks,
Scott
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December 31st, 2004 22:00
Here is another one http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_general&message.id=171959&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
You can try and open up your computer and reseat the bluetooth card but soon you'll see that that won't help much because the slightest movement can disable it. You can try stabilizing it with a foam but I have to tell you that all of my attempts have failed. Read my story in the link above.
The only thing I can tell you that's useful is that you can get rid of those annoying "usb device not recognized" messages when you're using your wi-fi card by going to device manager and disabling a usb root hub that is the bluetooth (in my case it is the fourth one). And dont' waste your time making system exchanges or sending your computer for repair as I believe this is a design defect in either of the bluetooth card or its motherboard connector.