My wireless adapter will not work on my dell inspiron laptop?

Question

I have a very nice laptop, but the hardrive burnt up and i had an old toshiba laptop thats sceen was broke so i switched out the hardrives everything works fine now except the wireless and audio quality and i have no clue what drivers i need or even how to install them and all i know is its an atheros adapter of somesort. when i turn on the computer i get a message to update my network adapter, PCI data acquisition and signal processing controller, PCI simple communications controller, and sm bus controller. I click update drivers but it says insert the disk and i dont have them obviously. can some one pleas help me step by step?

Answer 1

Did you try running Windows update? Do that.



If it does not work you will need to find the maker of the items needing update and go to their website and find the driver for your model and update them.

Answer 2

I assume you've lost the CDs. Can you even access Windows when you turn on the laptop? If u cant, you need to insert a Windows installaton CD and try running System Restore or System Repair (one of these can be done though the Windows CD but im not sure which one), and try to repair the system or reverse the date. If u dont have a windows CD, you need to have access to another PC to download the same version of the windows on your laptop and burn it to a CD. Then set the laptop's BIOS to boot from the CD drive. Start system repair and if u can access windows now, uninstall all the drivers u have problems with, and reintall them.

Answer 3

You should back up any data on your hard drive to an external hard drive. It's good to do this periodically anyway.



Then, you should format it clean. This erases everything.



Then install windows and the laptop drivers for your specific laptop.



Then you should be back up and running like the machine was new, assuming this swapped hard drive doesn't have issues.

Answer 4

Sure, you can by and large want drivers. To investigate, proper click My computer > houses > Hardware Tab > gadget manager. When you see a query mark on the network/wireless contraptions, then you shouldn't have drivers hooked up. Collect the mannequin and company of your pc, navigate to the motive force down load section of their site, down load the correct drivers and install. Installation is really easy, usually double click on on the file you down load. Possibilities are that in case you are missing network/wireless drivers, you'll be able to want different drivers as well.

Answer 5

model # of your computer-1



http://support.dell.com/support/index.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn&~ck=mn



Had you included the model number it would have helped.



Mike