Bluetooth Issues with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230

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I have a Samsung Series 9 NP900x3A. I recently replaced the factory wireless network card with the Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230. I got everything working - WiFi, WiDi, and Bluetooth. But recently the Bluetooth stopped functioning, and now it's not even available in the Device Manager. Every attempt to repair of remove and reinstall fails because I can't do those when it's not functioning and the system doesn't see it as even existing. My Windows (running 7 Home Premium) notification icons now list the Bluetooth as "Window Host Process (rundll32)" with "Bluetooth" in italics underneath it. I have all the updated drivers, but nothing seems to do the trick. Anyone else have this issue? And how can I do a repair or a reinstall of the driver if the Bluetooth software itself won't let me perform that through the Windows Uninstaller?

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/thread/22923?wapkw=ALL(intel 6230 http://communities.intel.com/thread/22923?wapkw=ALL(intel+6230)

I got similar problems.

Is it your Intel 6230 a brand new one? Is it an engineering sample one?

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It's a new one I put in myself. The bluetooth actually started working once I was able to uninstall the drivers and software via CCleaner. I then reinstalled everything, and after some random restarts, it kicked in again.

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What version is the driver？

Try this page.

http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-032541.htm http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-032541.htm

What Wi-Fi card did your computer use previous? Is it an combo one integrating Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0?

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Yeah, it was a Broadcom that had Bluetooth and Wifi, but no Widi (which was my reason for swap in the 6230). The driver I used was the Intel® PROSet/Wireless Bluetooth Software for Windows 7 64-Bit.

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Could you verify something for me?

In the Device Manager, go to Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230, right click the adapter, switch to Advanced Tap, if I change the 802.11n (2.4GHz) channel bandwidth from Auto to 20MHz, the adapter would disappear for a while, until I click the Scan for new hardware, then it shows up.

Would this happen to yours?

thx!

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I didn't have to scan for new hardware. Doing that, however, did remove the wireless icon from taskbar. Not sure why.

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Strange! Do you use the Intel My Wi-Fi tool to configurate your wireless network?

Maybe I got a Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 with some flaw.

Maybe your card got some hardware problems, too.

There is similar case here. He installed the same card, but the bluetooth part didn't work properly.

http://haseebbs.zol.com.cn/41/1191_404557.html http://haseebbs.zol.com.cn/41/1191_404557.html

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What's the model of your previous wifi card?

Does your computer have a second Mini PCI e connector?

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Just installed my 6230 and bluetooth was working under the microsoft drivers and the intel drivers but after a reboot the bluetooth has disappeared completely. It can not be found in device manager etc. Also cannot remove the drivers since the "device is not present".

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Ive got exactly the same problem. I may try Win 8 to see if the problem resolves, which may indicate that it is this specific set of hardware (7 x64 + 6230) which causes this problem.

As for uninstallation, use microsoft fixit: programs that do not install/uninstall

http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall/en-ushttp:// link

However, I have installed/uninstalled, deleted program files and deleted whatever intel/bluetooth registry entries I could find. The problem stops for a bit but resumes quickly. I hope we can still fins a solution for this, however, Intel doesn't seem like it will help so it is upto us .

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Same problem with my Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6235. D=

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So you had it working and it stopped working after some time?

Do you see the Bluetooth icon in the task tray in bottom right?

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Hey Everybody,

I have the same Problem N 6235 with Bluetooth 4.0 on AMD based Notebook, installed "BT_2.6.1210_e64" for Windows 8 and it worked about 1 Day. Today it first said "Treiber abgeschaltet Cdoe 18" (means "Driver switched off" Code 18)... after uninstall and reinstall now it says "Code 28"...

What is wrong with it???

Regards

Andreas

[Muthu_K_Intel]

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Could you uninstall 2.6 BT drivers from Intel, reboot and check few reboot cycles to see if it works consistently?

May I ask you what features of BT you use? Depending on that, you may not need Intel BT drivers at all.

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