![]() If either wireless adapter starts working, then you've isolated the problem to failed hard drive and you need to replace it!! :whistling::grin: If after reinstalling your software onto the replacement hard drive, and boot up to Windows7 using either your existing wireless card or the borrowed/purchased usb adapter, the wireless STILL doesn't work, there's a good chance your Motherboard is faulty and may need to be replaced. If you don't have them, you'll have to make them from built-in software included on your laptop, or purchase them directly from Dell (they run $29-$99 and takes 2-3 weeks to get). If you have access to another laptop hard drive, say 80GB or more capacity, you can remove your existing hard drive and put in the borrowed or purchased replacement hard drive and install Windows7 on it from your RECOVERY DISCS, if you have them. If your brand new or borrowed wireless adapter is no good either, then you probably have a more serious problem, most likely with Windows itself catching some virus damage, or a failing or failed hard drive. If this works-your existing wireless adapter is faulty and needs to be replaced ($5-$30 on ebay). 1 is if your wireless card is faulty, you'll have to buy or borrow a usb wireless adapter *they run about $25 at Radio Shack*, and remove the suspect wireless adapter from your laptop as above. We are probably uncertain as to the health of your wireless card, so you have 2 ways to go. Wait for windows to finish installing the software, and try connecting to the Internet again. If you have a Windows7 disc that came with your laptop, make sure you insert that into your CD/DVD drive prior to enabling the search.Īt this point Windows will use PNP to try and reinstall the existing drivers found on your hard drive or your Windows CD. Check all the options except the Internet. Windows will tell you it's searching for the software (drivers), and ask you locations to search for it. ![]() Windows should do a hardware PNP (Plug and Play) detection of the device unless you've disabled that feature in your BIOS. Reinsert the wireless card into whatever slot it came from, close things up, and reboot the laptop into Windows. or until the hard drive led indicator light on the front of the laptop stops blinking. Let windows boot all the way up to the desktop and sign in if you have a password. ![]() and reboot the laptop Windows should detect a hardware removal and give you a message for same. Power off the laptop, and THEN remove wireless card from the PCMCIA slot or from the internal slot inside of the laptop. You have a couple of other things to try. Is the DW1501 half-mini card a PCMCIA adapter card or is it an internal circuit board card you removed from inside the laptop itself?
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