I picked up an older Acer Aspire 5250, Win. 10, am not getting a WiFi signal, when I hit the icon, says WiFi not connected, I go to the WiFi icon and it is off, but after trying the on/off choice it does not turn on. Help!
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No Wifi
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durkinjt
, Nov 23 2016 03:44 PM
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Posted 23 November 2016 - 03:57 PM
Are there any yellow exclamation marks next to your network adapters in Device Manager?
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Posted 24 November 2016 - 07:05 PM
It may be because the wifi card has failed, this is not uncommon in older laptops. Your answer may be to buy a USB wifi dongle. They are fairly cheap and generally work very well. I use one in my desktop - it never had a wifi card - and another in a laptop where the wifi card has been dead for years ! Purely as an example of the type of thing see this -
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Posted 27 November 2016 - 10:48 AM
Thanks for the replies, out of nowhere it starting working again!! Small wonders never cease!
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Posted 27 November 2016 - 11:45 AM
out of nowhere it starting working again
Just a thought....it could also stop working just as suddenly; sometimes these NICs start "fussing around" just before they fail entirely. Chris' suggestion above about a dongle is something to keep in mind if there are further problems.
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Posted 28 November 2016 - 04:54 PM
Thanks for the info, I have several network adapters if it happens again
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