Another CF-29 Bluetooth Question

Okay... The last time I setup the stock BT unit on my CF-29 MK2 I went theough A LOT of crap! I finally got the correct program that installed successfully. Now I am reformatting a new drive so I can sell it and it is giving me fits again. I know the BT works. It does on my other hard drive. The new drive has windows showing it as a working device but the Toshiba program shows it as not found! I can pair it with my cell phone and even transfer files. It just shows the BT device in red instead of white... And there are two icons in the system tray.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

Sounds like the old OS loading the driver it wants to instead of the correct driver trick.

 

Yup... But now I am not getting the "Do you want to install" question... It is just loading by itself... I'll try to stop it from loading one more frickin' time and then I'll just reformat!

And THEN I'll have another Jack & Coke!

 

After over 8 hours of loading OS and other programs... and fooling with this... I'm just going to reformat with recovery disks. THEN I will install the BT software FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Jack and Coke heals all. Try pouring a little on the keyboard.

 

Pappy... It worked! I poured a little J&C on the keyboard (Then reformatted everything) and IT WORKED! j/k about the J&C....

It must have been that the XP OS was grabbing the driver slot before the BT program could install! It works fine now...

Sheesh! Now I just need to reinstall EVERYTHING! But... I can't ship out an Ultimate Toughbook that isn't 150%! I've gotten used to people flipping out when they receive theirs... And the buyer here is going to LOVE his new Toughbook.

1.3Ghz w/ tscreen
Bluetooth (now!)
GPS
1.28GB RAM
DVD MultiDrive
XP Pro
Office 2003
Photoshop
High capacity main battery
Media bay battery
Rubber, sealer, illuminated keyboard
lots of other stuff.


Now I'm going to buy a bare bones CF-30 and work on building that one...

 

This might be something that will help if you install Windows XP SP2 then want to install the other BT drivers.

Remove Bluetooth from XP SP2

 

Well I was the one who created the problem here.... I just kept hitting "cancel" and skipping the install until XP decidced to try to keep loading it by itself without asking me. Then it would put in the XP driver before I could load the correct driver. So... The lesson learned? Load your BT driver FIRST... Before you load anything else... Or at least before you load too much stuff and have to reboot a couple of times.

It worked great when I loaded it up after reformatting. The guy who bought it works for a disaster relief organization and treks all across the globe. I needed to make sure that it was bullet proof. He's going to love his new laptop.... I'm biting my nails now waiting for my new CF-30 to show up. Dang FedEx guy... They are so SLOW!