the bluetooth on my laptop just quit working... sort of.

Dell Latitude D620
XP Pro
Logitech V70 BT mouse

the mouse/bluetooth just quit working suddenly. I've tried reinstalling drivers; didn't work. I did try another bluetooth program/stack, and it (and the mouse) worked... but it was only a trial.

When I add the mouse, it says it installs the drivers fine, but the mouse never works and when I go back to BT devices, it's not there. I tried connecting my phone, and it would stay in the BT devices, just wouldn't connect...

6/27/2010 2:49:38 PM

solution: cheap stub bluetooth receiver

6/27/2010 2:56:22 PM

dammit, I can't even find the bluetooth devices in the device manager... wtf... BT is currently running...

6/27/2010 3:00:27 PM

Windows XP has notoriously bad bluetooth support.

If it's not in the device manager, then Windows is lying to you saying it's enabled.

6/27/2010 3:03:40 PM

System Restore.

6/27/2010 4:01:57 PM

^I turned that off because it just wasted space and never worked... looks I'll just reformat/reinstall if I can't get it working.

6/27/2010 5:01:04 PM

If it is hardware related, you can find replacement bluetooth receivers for Dell laptops on ebay/etc.

6/27/2010 5:32:05 PM

^^ It has worked for me the few times I used.

6/27/2010 7:04:31 PM

^

Quote :

"^^ It has worked for me the few times I used."

6/27/2010 8:54:49 PM

never worked for me.

anyways, finally got the driver to install and I installed toshiba's BT stack and everything is working

6/30/2010 8:05:41 PM