belkin bluetooth problem

[sniperdude]

hi all


installed win7 few days ago managed to get almost everything working apart from one thing this belkin bluetooth dongle f8t017


most of the drivers install fine but i have 3 bluetooth devices with no drivers showing in the device manager despite the latest widcomm driver saying it supports win7

i know one of the devices with no driver is for pim transfer

would be grateful of some help

 

[sniperdude]

manage to get the driver installed using xp mode but then it crashes explorer
when i try and go to my bluetooth places

 

[ChrisInVT]

Sorry to bump something so old, but did you ever get this working correctly? I've tried almost everything and i can't get my dongle to work under 7 x64.

 

[Angelsharmaonli]

Quick Fix

It's quite annoying I guess with windows 7 people. Here is a fix to the drivers problems. Because Windows 7 cannot recognise the drivers automatically you'll have to feed the drivers manually. This is how you do it.

Right click on my computer ---Properties
Go to Device Manager (on your left hand top corner)
Go to your bluetooth driver that usually has an ! mark to it
right click update driver software
Browse my computer for software manually
Specify the location where you downloaded drivers from Belkin

I guarantee this will work.

Angelsharmaonli

 

[ChrisInVT]

Guarantee it doesn't. That was the first thing i tried.

 

[ChrisInVT]

To update this. I got the Bluetooth working. Know how I fixed it? I went and purchased a pair of AZiO BTD211 dongles and all was good with the world. Works wonderfully under 7 x64

 

[AstaLaVista]

I was able to use my old trendnet dongle by grabing newer drivers for dongles that support win 7 since mine didn't. It took a little effort but it worked well.

I did the same thing with my LCD monitor drivers.