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Computer Guru needed.

Oerets

Oerets

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Had to reinstall windows XP on a laptop. SP3 Pro onto a Dell Inspiron 5100. On booting up one day it hung up.

Well it had so many updates to do it never would do Windows update. The onboard wireless was inop. Installed a external one to get online. Did Dell diagnostics and was no help.

After messing with it for days finally bought one of those tune up services off the internet. Fix the windows update and computer works all except for the wireless.

Now on booting up it will not ID or receive a signal but connect the external and as soon as it acquires one the onboard starts working fine. You can disconnect the external and get online just fine. Shut it down and back to the same as before. ?????

Any clue?


Barney
 
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Oerets said:
Had to reinstall windows XP on a laptop. SP3 Pro onto a Dell Inspiron 5100. On booting up one day it hung up.

Well it had so many updates to do it never would do Windows update. The onboard wireless was inop. Installed a external one to get online. Did Dell diagnostics and was no help.

After messing with it for days finally bought one of those tune up services off the internet. Fix the windows update and computer works all except for the wireless.

Now on booting up it will not ID or receive a signal but connect the external and as soon as it acquires one the onboard starts working fine. You can disconnect the external and get online just fine. Shut it down and back to the same as before. ?????

Any clue?


Barney
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Look for a button on the keyboard with a little tower icon on it. Turns the wireless on. It could have a switch on one of the sides if it doesn't have the button.
Also if you go to Administrative tools, services, make sure "Wireless Zero" (I think that's the name) is turned on.
 
the windows update thing has been a pain in my side of late as well,i've been having to format a few older computers at work for use in secondary roles...i can't say for sure that it's true,but from what i can gather...MS has apparently made some changes to the way WU works in anticipation of dropping update support for windows XP in the next year or so...post sp3 install there are roughly 100-200 updates that need to be installed depending on your hardware...to get WU to work on a fresh XP install,you need to install SP3 AND minimum IE8...then windows update should work,tho it may ask you to install some updated software first and then take quite a long while to get past the first "scanning for updates" phase...you just gotta wait..this has been working for me at least
 
It takes an awful long time for Windows XP to install all the updates. My brother has an older computer and it took all day.
 
I'd bet on the utility tied to the wireless card, likely Dell's own, is at the heart of your problem. Either its not installed or has control of the wireless card and settings.

In the past it might have been turned off so you were using the WZC utility built into XP. Now its back to the default configuration in which the Dell utility is the middle man. I prefer the XP wireless control to remove the middle man.

Look in the programs or the system tray for the Dell utility, and change it to "allow xp to manage my wireless connection" or something to that effect.

.dew.
 
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dew042 said:
I'd bet on the utility tied to the wireless card, likely Dell's own, is at the heart of your problem. Either its not installed or has control of the wireless card and settings.

In the past it might have been turned off so you were using the WZC utility built into XP. Now its back to the default configuration in which the Dell utility is the middle man. I prefer the XP wireless control to remove the middle man.

Look in the programs or the system tray for the Dell utility, and change it to "allow xp to manage my wireless connection" or something to that effect.

.dew.
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WZC = Wireless Zero Configuration.
 
Finger crossed and holding my mouth right think I fixed it. Booted up and after seeing the internal was inop connected through the external. Once the internal connected on it own disconnected the external. Deleted the program and updated the drivers and did a registry scan. Cleaned up any temp file info dumped the recycle bin stuff like that.

Rebooted and seems to be working now. But I'm over 240 updates from windows as we speak. Every time it boots up there is more.

BTW mid April 2014 is when XP updates cease to exist. So keep them old machines up to date. I'm going to burn me a recovery disc tonight.





Barney
 
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