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    Weird Bluetooth Issue

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Rosemarycane, Oct 9, 2007.

  1. Rosemarycane

    Rosemarycane Notebook Consultant

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    This is really strang but...
    When I turn off the bluetooth on my Vista partition, it turns off the bluetoothe when I bootup on my XP partition. Same thing happens in XP, turn off Bluetooth using Fn + F2 in XP, and when I reboot into Vista it is off there.

    Shouldn't I be able to have my bluetooth turn on in Vista but off in XP?
     
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    bananapudding Notebook Consultant

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    Most likely it is activating a hardware switch, rather than merely disabling it in XP.
     
    bananapudding, Oct 9, 2007
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    Rosemarycane Notebook Consultant

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    that might be, but when I uninstall wireless console, the bluetooth setting in vista does not affect the bluetooth settings in XP. Are there any w3j owners out there who are dual booting xp and vista? Could someone try turning off the bluetooth or wireless with the wireless concole in vista and then see if it turns off the bluetooth and wireless in xp?
     
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    Rosemarycane Notebook Consultant

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    Well I talked to a tech at Asus and he stated that using the fn + f2 button changes a setting in the bios, so that is why no matter what operating system I am in, it turns the bluetooth or wireless off in both.
     
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    Do you mean while you boot? I thought the fn+f2 was just like an additional switch, instead of using the WIFI button on the side, you could use the Fn+F2 to turn wireless off and on.

    The original bios, left bluetooth in what ever state it was in when you shut down, after the new bios was out (fixed graineyness) it changed so everytime you booted bluetooth was on, I just installed a new HDD and installed wireless console, now everytime I boot bluetooth is off (which I prefer, even though I use a BT mouse its anoying when your on battery and travelling you realise half an hour later your BT has been running unecessarily)

    So do you have BT console running under one OS and not the other?

    Also how do you find XP64? I run it at work ok, but not on my laptop.
     
    NZwaverider, Oct 11, 2007
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