Found this very strange... someone dropped off this laptop to me cause they couldn't get on wireless. Well windows was corrupted at some point so I reinstalled, while doing this the original install was on Fat32 but ok.. so I changed it to NTFS, loaded all the drivers everything working fine cept for the Ethernet port - nothing. So I downloaded and installed all updates and whatever via the wireless and then turned the laptop off the other night. Came back this morning to turn it on and check it and then the wireless don't work. Checked device manager to find the yellow ? on it, how nice it stated it didn't load. I restarted again and then NOTHING was there... no network adapter at all!!!??
So wtf? I pulled the back panel off the wireless card and reseated it and hooked up the wires and restarted. It came back on and is working fine.
So at this point I'm thinking that there has to be something wrong with the motherboard for 2 different pcs of hardware to act up like this. I don't believe reseating the wireless card had much to do with it just a act of fate that it started to work at random.
Anyone else agree on this? Keep in mind 100% drivers installed and Bios fully updated.
Latitude D600 Network adapters missing?
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YARDofSTUF
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YARDofSTUF wrote:When you reseated the wireless card did you move it to another slot?
No.. it's one slot under a back panel. I left it running and it went to sleep, I came back and the wireless connection is gone, adapter missing from device manager. Has to be some sort of hardware issue with the system board. I've restarted it 3 times and it still hasn't come back yet.
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YARDofSTUF wrote:Ya sounds liek the board, maybe its that slot only?
I had a similar issue that was caused by RAM that went bad, something like that is very rare though.
Not just the wireless which is why I'm thinking its the board since the regular ethernet port on the back isn't even detected in the device manager..the wireless is what goes in and out as explained.
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YARDofSTUF wrote:Is the regular ethernet turned off in the BIOS? When I disable it there it doesn't show up in device manager.
No it's not turned off.. flipping through the bios pages I didn't see any place for it either and Wireless is turned on through the F+F2 key. When the thing went to sleep once and I got back on it the wireless disappeared on its own.. so yeah something isn't right but nothing more I can do I think...just restart it and hope it comes back
Yes Quickset was installed and working properlyYeOldeStonecat wrote:Did you install the Dell system management drivers, including for power?
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I ended up restarting it several times each time the wireless fired up and worked for a while, so I closed the work on it and the owner picked it up. I explained what was going on and he understood, after all this is a 2nd hand purchased laptop from some type of computer fair at a local civic center lol hell it even had a few dead pixels he didn't notice and several other flaws..ohh well i cut him a good deal on the full reload either way so he came out good.
