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    Gx640 Bluetooth drivers

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by SGG, Jun 18, 2010.

  1. SGG

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    Since day 1, the bluetooth has failed to work properly, it will not pair with devices (despite the devices seeing the laptop), it will not see any other device (it did once, managed to pair, but then the bluetooth driver crashed, could not get it working again.) I have tried the recover partition and recovery disks, neither worked, so I did a install from my own win 7 CD, that didn't work either, using the MS bluetooth or motorola drivers. If it didn't work at all, most likely a hardware fault, but this has worked (albeit briefly), so I have no clue.

    I crawled through all I could find, and got about 30 pages into the gx640 owner thread but didn't see anything of use. Any suggestions?
     
    SGG, Jun 18, 2010
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  2. bossier330

    bossier330 Notebook Consultant

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    If it didn't work with the MS driver, it really does sound like a hardware issue, even though it "worked" briefly. That sucks, man. Maybr yiu can get MSI to send you a BT chip instead of RMAing your whole laptop. Probably not, though :(
     
    bossier330, Jun 18, 2010
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  3. kosti

    kosti Notebook Virtuoso

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    I doubt they will send you just the BT adapter. I called them a while back about a keyboard problem and they wanted me to send the entire laptop in. The BT adapter on this model uses an external antenna that is mounted inside the chassis and connected with a mini coax cable just like wifi cards. Just a thought but maybe it's coming loose. You can get an MSI bluetooth adapter on e-bay for less than $20 bucks. The ones I found are for their Wind netbooks but they are probably the same adapters anyway. It will be cheaper to just change it yourself since you will have to pay to ship it to MSI anyway. Not to mention the fact that you won't have to worry about how long you won't have your laptop while it's with MSI.
     
    kosti, Jun 19, 2010
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  4. SGG

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    I've got no issues opening the thing up. Got any manual for it? Or at least pics showing where the things are inside?
     
    SGG, Jun 20, 2010
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    kosti Notebook Virtuoso

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    kosti, Jun 20, 2010
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    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    Get toshiba stack for it, the MSI/MicroS ones just dont seem to work,
     
    catacylsm, Jun 21, 2010
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    turbochris Notebook Guru

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    Have you done this? I can't seem to get any alternate stack to work and retain the drivers. I went through this crap with my VAIO until someone managed to find some generic drivers that would install without the attached software.

    The Motorola stack that came with this thing sucks
     
    turbochris, Jun 26, 2010
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