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    Bluetooth Problem in Vaio FZ-190

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by itssweeney, Dec 20, 2009.

  1. itssweeney

    itssweeney Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've had my Vaio since 2007 with Windows Vista Business installed. For a time, the Bluetooth adapter worked perfectly and I was able to connect to my phone, whatever. For the past year or so it stopped working and I could not turn it on in the wireless switching utility. I attempted installing different drivers with no avail.

    Since then, I installed Windows 7 Pro x64 and had hoped that it would remedy the situation. No such luck. I've installed the Toshiba stack as listed in a post concerned with a Win7 64 bit install on the FZ-190, but it fails to install the drivers saying "Plug in or turn on Bluetooth adapter"

    Has anyone else experienced problems like this? I'm really stuck and would appreciate getting this back to working order...
     
    itssweeney, Dec 20, 2009
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    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    Turn on your hardware switch before installing the driver.
     
    coolguy, Dec 21, 2009
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    itssweeney Notebook Enthusiast

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    I do have my "Wireless" switch on while installing but there is no specific Bluetooth switch. I can't use the Wireless Switching Utility now in Windows 7 either, and even if I could (when I had Vista on) there was no such option for enabling Bluetooth. At all.
     
    itssweeney, Dec 21, 2009
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