i have recently upgraded to 8 from 7. my bluetooth has stopped working a couple of days ago. the device manager lists bluetooth with an yellow exclamation mark ( code 19...windows can not start device...registry problem...blah blah blah ).
i have uninstalled and reinstalled latest bluetooth driver ( broadcom bluetooth 3 + hsb ) and also tried to repair the registry with freeware - but no success at all.
i can not tell with 100% confidence that win8 upgrade is responsible for that as i did not check whether bluetooth was working after the upgrade. i believe it is not the case as i vaguely remember the system automatically downloaded the latest bluetooth driver from broadcom after the upgrade.
a quick googling of code 19 tells that it is essentially a registry error. but how to repair it?
i do not know the class id of my built-in bluetooth hardware. to delete upper and lower filters from the registry i need to know the class id / guid of my bluetooth hardware first - right?
any other suggestions? thanks in advance.
point to be noted : the code 19 error is present in both the cases - 1 ) with generic bluetooth driver ( after uninstalling broadcom driver ) and 2 ) after installing broadcom driver.
mine is samsung netbook n148plus.
[ compatibility mode can not be used as the broadcom driver is not an exe file. i can not reinstall the broadcom driver directly. i have to use windows update. it downloads again the driver and reinstalls without any result. ]
i have uninstalled and reinstalled latest bluetooth driver ( broadcom bluetooth 3 + hsb ) and also tried to repair the registry with freeware - but no success at all.
i can not tell with 100% confidence that win8 upgrade is responsible for that as i did not check whether bluetooth was working after the upgrade. i believe it is not the case as i vaguely remember the system automatically downloaded the latest bluetooth driver from broadcom after the upgrade.
a quick googling of code 19 tells that it is essentially a registry error. but how to repair it?
i do not know the class id of my built-in bluetooth hardware. to delete upper and lower filters from the registry i need to know the class id / guid of my bluetooth hardware first - right?
any other suggestions? thanks in advance.
point to be noted : the code 19 error is present in both the cases - 1 ) with generic bluetooth driver ( after uninstalling broadcom driver ) and 2 ) after installing broadcom driver.
mine is samsung netbook n148plus.
[ compatibility mode can not be used as the broadcom driver is not an exe file. i can not reinstall the broadcom driver directly. i have to use windows update. it downloads again the driver and reinstalls without any result. ]
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 8