OT - my laptop code 10 [permanent solution = new Adapter]
Catherine3678ab
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Best I can figure some driver for the wifi adapter is corrupted. Gives a code 10 which is usually a driver issue. Could have been the recent storms. Was working this morning but not now. Typing this with cellphone.
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...as I understand not until 2025 (EOL for W10)
Though I'm still using W7 and not having any issues on the Net.
HU - apparently the companies don't warn ahead of whatever happens to cause the Network Adapter to cease functioning because its drivers are out-of-date. ??? Gets all these updates from Windows, nVidia, etc. ... but left out the Network Adapter!!!
So on cellphone downloaded new driver package BUT cellphone no talk to computers. So put it in the cloud. Then dug through the clutter and found an old W7, hooked it up to the internet and downloaded the new drivers package required for W10/11. Put that on a flashdrive. Then put that drive over to W10 and copied them there. I did not follow some guy's information on the 'Net to keep uninstalling/reinstalling, etc. until the poor adapter would no longer be able to find drivers ... seemed rather pointless. I uninstalled the old drivers. Then BEFORE letting the computer search for new devices etc., I ran the installer for the new drivers. THEN I told the computer to look for new stuff and bingo! We're back on the internet, yes!!!
Right now I'm very happy that I kept that old W7.
Or anything else either... I'm also on W7 and it's rock solid, working like 'the toilet on a train', a finnish saying from times when the throne on a train was just a seat with a hole underneath, although I've still seen them on my travels to our eastern neighbour...
Yeah, I kept a couple of old XP machines just in case I need to carve something on a cave wall.
I've got an old Linux box I use as a firewall for emergency internet access.
... all was well last night ... had disconnected the modem while working on project ... while the computer is 'off-line' ... mind boggling how it is that still Windows Updates manages to figure it has something to install ... so before letting it installed figured I'd better go back online. And the options had all vanished again!!! Rebooted and they were back, Windows Updates was then permitted to do its thing.
And then I went digging and sure enough the power options had been checked off again ... darn near gave me a heart attack, WHY would I ever want the network thing turned off. I certainly never asked the system to do this.
So I unchecked that box and thought I would post the info here in case anybody else has these issues. In reading some through the web, seems for the past couple of years anybody on W10 can hit that code 10 error message.
In the Windows type here box, Device Manager, open that. Right click on the Network Adapter for the wireless:
And it went 'poof' again.
Code 10 ... but on one of the attempts it also mentioned something about hardware :-(
So I figure it's about time for a new Network Adapter for the Wireless connection.
So dumb question, if I buy a Network Adapter that plugs into the USB port, should that work okay? Like, those things are for any computer, right?
tia.
Never tried one, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't work if it's sold.
Regards,
Richard
I haven't tried one before either although I've seen other people use one. So hopefully my laptop will co-operate. At this moment it's working, "might" be a heat related thing but everything else seems okay so I don't know. We get so used to things just "being there" and then it's a bit of a panic when they're not. Right now in RL, my mother is dying and like, I really don't want to lose being in touch with everyone!
I have used a wifi usb on the PC in my bedroom for years no issues
Thank you. Picking it up tomorrow.
And it works!!!
Of course I'm down a port now but not forever. While in the store had a nice chat and got a start on compiling a list of everything for my next real computer. And this time I'm getting a decent set of speakers! The nice man helping me was very knowledgeable about sound and explained why it is that many people [me for example] do not like to hear our own voices. Apparently what we hear when we are talking is not the same as what everybody else hears. So if I'm ever to get any voice over videos made, I shall have to learn to ignore how my voice sounds.