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Acer Aspire

Payton · 2011-02-19 08:01:40

A friend has an Acer Aspire 7110 laptop and reformatted the hard drive but now the wireless is not working, He cant see the wireless adaptor in the device manager. He has phycially removed it from the laptop and reinstalled it but still nothing. Is it possible for the wireless card to be "dead"?

19-02-2011 8:01am

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A friend has an Acer Aspire 7110 laptop and reformatted the hard drive but now the wireless is not working, He cant see the wireless adaptor in the device manager. He has phycially removed it from the laptop and reinstalled it but still nothing. Is it possible for the wireless card to be "dead"?

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#2 19-02-2011 1:11pm

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on the verge wrote: »

A friend has an Acer Aspire 7110 laptop and reformatted the hard drive but now the wireless is not working, He cant see the wireless adaptor in the device manager. He has phycially removed it from the laptop and reinstalled it but still nothing. Is it possible for the wireless card to be "dead"?

Have you downloaded drivers?

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#3 19-02-2011 4:46pm

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yes ive downloaded the drivers

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#4 19-02-2011 4:49pm

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Is there a button on the case or keyboard to switch the wireless on/off

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#5 19-02-2011 5:14pm

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Yes there is a button on the keyboard but it doesnt respond when pressed

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#6 19-02-2011 5:42pm

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Check that it's switched on in the bios

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#7 20-02-2011 8:46am

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I dont see it in the BIOS

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