Zoostorm FreedomXL 10.2" NetBook

Argos have been offering this NetBookpre-loaded with Windows 7 starter for £199.99 , which isn't bad considering the hardware.

More info Here

There is, however, a rather silly fault with the WiFi on this particular machine. Pressing FN+F2 will/should activate the WiFi but as i've witnessed this weekend, it doesn't. Most/all forums that have information on this also mention the BIOS, it's not the BIOS at fault and there's NO way to switch it on in there.

This fault is due to the wrong default driver being pre-loaded before shipping and is easily fixed.

Step 1:

Uninstall the driver from Device Manager

   Note

Make sure that the 'Delete the driver software for this device" is NOT checked.

Step 2:

Click the 'Scan for hardware changes' button

That's it.

This will cause Windows to reinstall the WiFi drivers, this time using the correct software.

This has worked in all cases so far.

I wonder why it is not checked before shipping?

No idea, it's 1 of the most bizzar faults/errors i've heard of LOL

You're very welcome mate & welcome to the forums. By all means stick around, you'll find the tutorials section extremely helpful

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

Normally most OEM machines will have a recovery app built in which is accessed during/just after the POST by pressing a certain key normally shown on the bottom of the screen. This then accesses the hidden partition which will restore your machine to it's out-of-box state.

Hope this helps :)


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   Note

I don't personally own the machine so I can't fully test the recovery options