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    E8210 bluetooth setting dissapeared from bios

    Discussion in 'Fujitsu' started by gill_za, Oct 19, 2009.

  1. gill_za

    gill_za Newbie

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    Hi everyone,

    Thank you in advance to all who will try to help me with my issue. Firstly, I have spent considerable time searching for a similar issue just googling and going to forums like this one without much luck.

    The problem:

    A while ago I have purchased a custom built Fujitsu E8210 from fujitsu site. Upon arrival it came with preinstalled windows and whole bunch of software. I was using it as is for a while and then decided to turn off several things from bios in order to increase the battery life and get rid of the devices I did not use. So I disabled COM and LPT ports, as well as turning off IR port and Trusted platform module. Shortly after that I installed my own winodows xp without all the additional software that came with the computer (except for the necessary ones). Later I disabled Bluetooth as well since I did not use it.
    A couple of days ago I reinstalled my windows xp and flashed new version of bios from Fujitsu's support site (v1.23) (used my personal configuration number to get the update) and decided to turn on Bluetooth.
    I went to bios and the setting for it have disappeared from "Internal Device Configurations". There is not a trace of it. As if it never existed.
    I tried downgrading the Bios, but system would not allow it due to a newer version present. I am linking the problem to the bios update but am not sure. I have not checked the bios settings for over a year or so prior to that. Could it have disappeared during that time, i dunno.

    In any case, I was wondering if anybody had a similar problem.

    P.S. -- Bios is phoenix.

    P.S.S. -- I have tried to reinstall the drivers from Bluetooth drivers cd the laptop came with and from Fujitsu support site. Windows does not see Bluetooth module, thus installing drivers will not help and produces an error message saying "Bluetooth module is not detected"

    P.S.S.S. -- The laptop came with the recovery dvd which has an image of windows that computer came with and it also flashes bios to v1.20 or so. I am considering as a last resort doing the recovery hoping that it will reflash the bios but I suspect it will not for the same reason as above and also I dual boot the computer with Ubuntu and don't want to deal with the mess with MBR and etc.
     
    gill_za, Oct 19, 2009
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