Hi all,
I have a Lenovo Ideapad Z510, running on Windows 8 64-bit.
When I bought it, I had trouble connecting to one particular wi-fi connection. The laptop worked fine with other connections, but it didn't work well with this one connection (that my other laptops could use no problem).
It would basically connect and work well for a while and then suddenly stop working. And then I would have to reset my adapter for the connection to work again. So I looked online and saw that a lot of people had problems too. I tried all the fixes - changing the power, the DNS, rollback, resetting the TCP/IP all that. Nothing worked.
Finally I found this fix from these forums. And from that thread, there was this link to the Lenovo forums.
The basic idea of the fix was:
Boot into bios and disable secure boot.
1. Boot in safe mode.
2. Uninstall wifi driver from device manager. Be sure to check the box that says "delete ...".
3. Reboot and let windws 8 install it's own wifi driver.
4. Connect to internet by supplying the ssid and passphrase.
5. Disable bluetooth.
So I tried it. First I booted in safe mode and uninstalled my wireless adapter (Broadcom something) from Device Manager. Then I rebooted my laptop.
But there's no Windows 8 wifi driver being installed? The link said that it would auto-install, but I'm not getting anything. And now I don't even have a wireless adapter, and can't get it back. I tried to boot into bios and disable secure boot (because I skipped this step the first time), but nothing's happening.
Please help. I'd like to find a way to complete this fix (I'm stuck on Step 3), and I have no idea how.
Side note: When I uninstalled the wireless driver, I checked "Delete software" as instructed
I have a Lenovo Ideapad Z510, running on Windows 8 64-bit.
When I bought it, I had trouble connecting to one particular wi-fi connection. The laptop worked fine with other connections, but it didn't work well with this one connection (that my other laptops could use no problem).
It would basically connect and work well for a while and then suddenly stop working. And then I would have to reset my adapter for the connection to work again. So I looked online and saw that a lot of people had problems too. I tried all the fixes - changing the power, the DNS, rollback, resetting the TCP/IP all that. Nothing worked.
Finally I found this fix from these forums. And from that thread, there was this link to the Lenovo forums.
The basic idea of the fix was:
Boot into bios and disable secure boot.
1. Boot in safe mode.
2. Uninstall wifi driver from device manager. Be sure to check the box that says "delete ...".
3. Reboot and let windws 8 install it's own wifi driver.
4. Connect to internet by supplying the ssid and passphrase.
5. Disable bluetooth.
So I tried it. First I booted in safe mode and uninstalled my wireless adapter (Broadcom something) from Device Manager. Then I rebooted my laptop.
But there's no Windows 8 wifi driver being installed? The link said that it would auto-install, but I'm not getting anything. And now I don't even have a wireless adapter, and can't get it back. I tried to boot into bios and disable secure boot (because I skipped this step the first time), but nothing's happening.
Please help. I'd like to find a way to complete this fix (I'm stuck on Step 3), and I have no idea how.
Side note: When I uninstalled the wireless driver, I checked "Delete software" as instructed
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8