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I have a dell XPS 12, 9Q23 for 8 months now and I am facing the WiFi Problem that everyone talks about, every time I restart/start up the computer the wifi is turned off and the settings says it cant turn on. Initially a couple of times, I was able to solve the problem by troubleshooting. But now, it says 'cant fix'. I have run a hardware test and it says its fine. I cant figure out how to turn on the network adapter and keep it on.
but I have tried
-Updating driver
-Control panel>Network Adapter>Power Management and switch on the network adapter always.
- I also tried system restore and it works every time and doesn't depend on which I chose but again when I restart/startup the computer The WiFi is gone.
My problem still persists.
After paying for a premium laptop, its so annoying to have problems show up every other month. Very disappointed in the product.
Thanks a lot, Jim. I followed the instructions from the link you gave and it fixed my problem. I'm not sure how but the service was changed to manual and now it is back to normal. The only difference was the service in my system was named "Wireless PAN DHCP Server" and thats the service I switched to Automatic.
Mikie19598
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Posted March 5th, 2015 05:00
Hello i have a similar problem with an Inspiron M1440 you can be on there for a while and then the wifi just shuts off for no reason i have tried to do the changes threw services and i have even purchased a new wifi card just to see if that was the problem and it still does it any ideas as to what the problem might be.and i do have windows 7 64 bit on here to.
jimroad471
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Posted August 29th, 2013 22:00
try this windows link to have windows manage your wifi,,,also i need to know the wifi adapter # so i can get you another driver
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms706593%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
good luck
jim