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by: pintree3 November 3, 2011 7:31 PM PDT

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by pintree3 - 11/3/11 7:31 PM

It may be a coincidence but my Broadcom Network Adapter 802.11g stopped working after trying to fix 'Unknown device" in Device Mgr. (It was working fine B4 this)<span>OS: Win 7 Starter on BenQ Joybook Lite U105. I tried the Windows troubleshooter and nil (saying there may be a problem with the driver) I uninstalled the driver and reinstalled it (including a newer 1) and nothing. Within 'Network Connections' The Broadcom Wireless Adapter is shown as 'disabled' it would not enable. What is preventing it from being enabled?. Went to 'Component Services' & started or restarted all with word 'network'-still no luck. Any suggestions? BTW the unknown device-still not fixed as well--shows an icon that looks like its my laptop itself. Also used a linux USB and it worked fine, makig the problem a windows one. thank you


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(NT) So why not use System Restore next?

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 11/3/11 8:54 PM

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Broadcom Network Adapter 802.11g stopped working after tryin

by pintree3 - 11/4/11 3:04 PM

In Reply to: (NT) So why not use System Restore next? by R. Proffitt Moderator

Thanks for your help.
Yes, I had already tried that but for some reason or other Windows could not go back to that other restore point. I got a window after reboot telling me that windows could not do it. Never saw such a thing before. BTW in my many years of experience I never saw that feature work--then again it may just be me with the bad luck


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The most common reason I know of is

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 11/6/11 3:05 PM

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Norton blocks system restore and a lot of machines have norton installed.

It's a shame Symantec did that. It's a setting you change to allow system restore to work again.
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