Computer problem
I doubt anyone will be able to help with this problem, but it can't hurt to ask.
We have a Lenovo 3000 N500 notebook running Vista. It actually came with XP, but something became corrupted a week after we got it and I had to reinstall the operating system, and they had sent us Vista disks for some reason.
I have been unable to get the wireless radio to activate. The external switch is on, and the machine recognizes this. However, it seems to be deactivated on software level. I have gathered that this is a problem endemic to the 3000 line, and have searched for solutions. One suggestion was to change a registry setting, and it didn't work (I changed it back). Another suggested that it's due to two different programs trying to control the wireless radio, and that I should uninstall one, but I can't find one to uninstall. I suspect a lot of this has to do with Vista's tendency to cause problems in its effort to protect users from themselves.
Does anyone have any ideas? Lenovo says we're out of warranty, and I really don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for something I should already have. (And no, we've never had successful wireless access as far as we know. I never tried until recently because we didn't have the router.)
We have a Lenovo 3000 N500 notebook running Vista. It actually came with XP, but something became corrupted a week after we got it and I had to reinstall the operating system, and they had sent us Vista disks for some reason.
I have been unable to get the wireless radio to activate. The external switch is on, and the machine recognizes this. However, it seems to be deactivated on software level. I have gathered that this is a problem endemic to the 3000 line, and have searched for solutions. One suggestion was to change a registry setting, and it didn't work (I changed it back). Another suggested that it's due to two different programs trying to control the wireless radio, and that I should uninstall one, but I can't find one to uninstall. I suspect a lot of this has to do with Vista's tendency to cause problems in its effort to protect users from themselves.
Does anyone have any ideas? Lenovo says we're out of warranty, and I really don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for something I should already have. (And no, we've never had successful wireless access as far as we know. I never tried until recently because we didn't have the router.)