Bluetooth reinstallation error

I reformatted this evening and all my drivers reinstalled perfectly fine from my burned CD except for my bluetooth device. This is the second time I reformatted my HD. Last time there was no problem.

Anyone experience this and can offer help on how to get my computer to find or recodnize my 350 bluetooth device?

The error I get is: Cannot find a compatible bluetooth chip on your system

It is the standard driver from Dell's website. It worked last time I reformatted, but now it claims it can't find a compatible blue tooth device.

Driver Version A15
R115564
For Inspiron: MP061

Anyone else experience this error when installing bluetooth driver?

Do I need to restart everytime I install a new driver upon a reformat and it prompts be to reboot?

 

You didn't do anything other than just reformat and reinstall?

When rebuilding a machine from scratch, I recommend rebooting during seperate driver installations especially where service packs are involved... prevents a lot of issues.

If it's not too much of a pain try reinstalling everything and installing the bluetooth driver before everything else (short of maybe any special mass storage drivers if any) and reboot. See if you can get it working before installing anything else. If it doesn't recognize it even then, could be a freak incident where the chip died.

 

I woud check in the BIOS and make sure Bluetooth is enabled.

 

i had a similar problem. I don't think i ever figured out the cause of the problem, but I remember uninstalling and installing the driver several times. I uninstalled the driver, then completely updated windows (XP does have its own BT driver), and after I couple of days, i got the Dell driver to install.

You should only have to restart if it prompts you too. Another option is to check your BT card and make sure that it is connected properly -- located on the outside edge of the battery compartment

 

Southern, do you use BT on your Inspiron much? If so how is it? From this and your wifi thread, it looks like BT implementation is a little be flakey. I rely on it daily (sometimes depending on where I am it becomes my only source of internet access)

 

Guys, thanks for all the help.

It was apparently a result of me disabling the wifi. Once I hit fn+f2 it enabled and i could install the drivers correctly.

So, fortunatley I did not have to reboot. Hopefully this can help other people with BT issues.

 

I don't use very often. I use to sync with my PDA, but i haven't been using my PDA lately since I've started taking my laptop everywhere.

When I did a reformat over Christmas break, I had several problems trying to install the BT drivers from Dell (Toshiba stack). Part of me really wishes I would have just stayed with XP. I'm not 100% sure if the WIFI problem is related to the BT radio or not. I've justed notice a that the light doesn't go off when the BT radio is off.