Dell Wireless WLAN Error on boot

A friend of mines Inspiron 1521 keeps getting a Dell Wireless WLAN error when windows vista home premium loads. No matter how I try to get into widows (normal or safemode) all I get is a black screen. No taskbar, start menu, nothing, nada, zip. I found this thread that tells me what the issue is but I can't get to device manager to either uninstall the driver or update it.

I'm wondering if there's anyway that I can get into windows so I can uninstall or update the driver. Thanks in advance for any help that could be offered on how I can get into it and fix it for her.

 

If its the wireless card than you could try to disable it in the bios. It should than boot.
Uninstall all old driver enable the card and see if it boots.

If not disable it. Try installing the updates and boot. This might not work since many drivers will tell you no card detected unable to install.

Just try it.

 

I've disabled everything under the wireless menu in the BIOS and the integrated NIC under the on Board devices menu and still get the same error msg when I try to boot. I was considering physically removing the card itself, but I'm not sure thats going to help any.

As always any help is very much appreciated.

 

Remove card from laptop and reboot and take it from there.

 

Removed the Broadcom WLAN card, booted, received same error msg. I'm now thinking rolling back to a restore point from before it started having this issue, but I'm not entirely convinced that will solve the problem either.