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    wireless switch broken (does not light up)?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by eli2k, Mar 12, 2009.

  1. eli2k

    eli2k Notebook Consultant

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    I have an SR290 and recently I had a problem with the wireless. The wireless switch at the bottom left corner does not seem to work; when I move it to the ON position, the LED does not light up green to say that it is working. In the Device Manager, the wireless device does show up, and I can disable/enable it, and it indicates that the wireless card is still functioning. Under network connections, the network connection does show up, but it cannot detect any wireless networks. My other devices can pick up the wireless signals. Does anyone have any suggestions I can try before I ship it off to Sony repair?

    Thanks,
    - Eli
     
    eli2k, Mar 12, 2009
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  2. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    Be sure to backup your partition(s) befroe you send it off, as the folks at Sony are very likely to reset the hard drive back to its out of the box state.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Mar 13, 2009
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    boko Notebook Consultant

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    have you tried reinstalling or updating the wireless card driver?
     
    boko, Mar 15, 2009
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  4. mccleld

    mccleld Newbie

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    Hi eli2k,

    This sounds as though it *could* be similar to what I'm seeing with my TZ31 - I posted last night in this thread >>> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=362726

    Are you running XP or Vista? Performed any Microsoft Updates recently? Updated any wireless drivers?

    Let me know how you get on...

    /David Mc
    London, UK
     
    mccleld, Mar 15, 2009
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  5. eli2k

    eli2k Notebook Consultant

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    This was running on Vista. It suddenly started happening out of nowhere (no system modifications), pretty much randomly when I was switching wireless networks.

    I poked around the network settings, in the Network Sharing Center, clicking on some of those icons and connections, and this window popped up saying the wireless is turned off, so it let me turn it on, and it works now. *whew*
     
    eli2k, Mar 17, 2009
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