Where can I get a working Windows 8. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Thank you so much for the response. Although it does say in the description:. I cycled through a massive number of settings, and not a single one affected things in a positive manner. I keep searching for solutions and end up on a different support thread related to a Dell WLAN card, with similar suggestions about using older drivers, and similar issues with compatibility checks not permitting the install. If you have a question create a new topic by clicking here and select the appropriate board.
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The issue is still a compatibility issue between the Windows 8 And he was indeed experiencing the same issues, where connections would always fail at work, but not at home. Screen shot is showing a different driver, but the brosdcom would be the same. I would like to report that, I went ahead with the update to Windows 8.
Rolling back to a Windows 7 network driver disables that specific feature on the Windows 8 side, thus allowing you to connect without further issues. Although it does say in the description: All forum topics Next Topic.
And finally navigate to the location you extracted the driver files which you placed on the clipboard if you followed the instructions to the letter:. Those windoas are as follow:.
I found an old Dell Precision Workstation Laptop M and decided to wipe it out and prep it to donate to a local broadclm. I have the Bluetooth Icon showing in the Device Managerwith the proper entries listed.
It might be that Windows 8 will at some point overwrite the driver with a newer Windows 8 driver version.
Your email address will not be published. The location of the driver is:. This is usually an optional update.
Choose the “Have Disk” option: Right click it and choose Update Driver: Message 2 of 4. The settings I tried altering were:.
I am so glad to hear the everything appears to be working properly. If you have a question create a new topic by clicking here and select the appropriate board.
Browse to the driver you’ve extracted: I hope this helps, please let me know how it goes. At this point I still have the Bluetooth icon in my task bar.
This topic has been archived. Locate a Windows 7 x64 driver for that card Extract the installer to find the driver files Go into Device Manager groadcom click Update Driver Choose Let me pick the driver to install Point to the driver folder Hide any updates pushed by Windows Update. It should automatically highlight the correct option: So, for a Dell Latitudedownload the following Broadcom driver from the Dell support site Windows 7 x However, in this case, someone from Microsoft replied and suggested installing the driver using a compatibility mode.
Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. I did flip between that and the Broadcom-branded driver, no change in performance or visible options. Choose the “Let me pick” option:. Unfortunately it would not install on my current Windows 10 install.
Except, I had not yet encountered his wireless network adapter.
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