VOSTRO 1500: Issue with Bluetooth after re-installing xp

Hi All

I have recently re-installed my windows. i had installed all the drivers and now i am getting an error while starting my bluetooth device.



I thought might be the driver is old, hence i downloaded the latest driver from dell directly and then tried still no joy.

Checked the bios and could see that the bluetooth is enabled.

when i chkd in the device manager i can see that the blutooth module is marked as unknown




Please help me in resolving this issue.

 

whilst we are here, you don't have the Intel Chipset (SM Bus) drivers installed which can be obtained from here http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=816
and from my experience, this can sometimes solve these problems

 

@tinselworm - i have tried installing the SM Bus driver , but no joy.

i have loaded the xp that was not given by DEll folks , bcoz when i loaded that one i was getting DEP issue and once fixing that when i installed antivirus it cleaned up all the system files.

I guess the bluetooth driver license key is encrypted in the original OS given by DELL. I guess the only option is to find out the driver for the bluetooth module from the manufaturer.

Any pointers in this regard

my bluetooth module is a 355 dell bluetooth module. the company is broadcom