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    Just Added the internal Dell 365 Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR adapter

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by blackjackel, Jan 26, 2012.

  1. blackjackel

    blackjackel Notebook Enthusiast

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    Bought the adapter on ebay, took apart my laptop (Baseplate, light cover, keyboard, palmrest) and put it in te connector and screwed it in.

    Booted it up, and windows 7 does not detect it, nothing in device manager. Its enabled in the bios........

    So I decide to test it by installing WUBI (a windows program you can install to automatically put ubuntu linux on your system without partitioning your HD). Takes me less than 15 mins to install and run that and ubuntu detects the bluetooth just fine!

    Why won't windows detect it? Whats goin on?

    I see a lot of posts out there with people not being able to get the bluetooth working on their m11x untill they completely reinstall windows, ?
     
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    blackjackel Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just wanted to update everyone on why it wasn't working.

    The culprit was Motionjoy driver, I had to uninstall the motionjoy application itself, but this wasn't enough! I had to go into device manager and unistall the motion joy drivers themselves... but they kept popping back and reinstalling, the only way to get rid of them was to go into the motionjoy driver prefrences and select "delete driver after uninstall" to get them to finally go the hell away!

    Once I did this, dell bluetooth 365 was detected and I was home free!

    Thanks all!
     
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    aKaBetty Notebook Guru

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    Is the Dell 365 working 100% with motionjoy? Are you using the Sixaxis?
     
  4. CZroe

    CZroe Notebook Evangelist

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    I added the 365 to my R1 and the 375 to my R3. I had to enable it in the BIOS, but it worked fine.