E1705 and Windows 7 problems

Hi, I have a E1705 that came with windows Vista Home premium and I did my first restore after 3 long yrs and after that the wireless would not connect to the internet without a limited access warning? Every other computer in my house was connecting just fine.

Anyway, I wiped the HD again and did a Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit install and the E1705 is now literally a brand new machine, its sooooo fast now. But theres two problems:

1. My bluetooth does not work through the FN-F2 button and I cannot shut it off unless I disable it though the bios.

2. I got the upgraded creative labs sound system with the subwoofer and I cannot get it to work in windows 7. The creative labs website is no help either and windows 7 installed a generic sound driver that does not utilize the subwoofer at all. The sound is no where near as good as it was on vista.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

For one, you managed to get 64 bit on a 5 year old laptop? lol

1) You can't just manually disable it through Device Manager? Or did you want the ability to hot key it off?

2) You should be able to reuse Vista drivers with Windows 7.

 

Hi, thanks for the reply. I did try to disable bluetooth through device manager but the light never turned off and everytime I rebooted the blue light still was on too.

The vista driver keeps telling me its not valid, I'm assuming cause I have 64bit on here now. It should work with a 64 bit but when I went to creative labs website and downloaded a 64 bit driver it was asking for a activation key when I tried to install it.

And ya, this laptop is like new again. Smoking fast. It has a dual core T7200 2GHZ processor chip with 2 gigs of ram.

 

There is an option in the BIOS for the interactions between Fn-F2 and the wireless/bluetooth. I don't remember the details, but poke around there. Maybe one of the settings would give you your heart's desire.