Uninstall Bluetooth device

[TimTang]

I've been struggling with this for month's!

I've got a Ferrari 3200 laptop with a inboard CSR Bluetooth device.

From day 1 it's never really worked. I discovered Bluesoleil and it did work but I alway had to restart the program frequently because it had a 5MB transfer limit. I decided to uninstall Bluesoleil because I wanted to have a solution that was legit.

I uninstalled Bluesoleil and tried to uninstall the Bluetooth device. Bluesoleil uninstalled OK but NOW I can't unistall the device. I've tried EVERYTHING (my laptop was out of order for 3 days because I was even doing registry surgery)but nothing has worked.

Does anyone know how to uninstall a device that windows simply refuses to let you do?

It's crazy! I can't believe something this easy could be so hard, but I'm going on 2 years now with this stupid problem.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

 

[G0AOZ]

Not familiar with the Ferrari laptop but...

Is there an option in the BIOS for disabling on-board devices like Bluetooth?

If, not then maybe you can disable it in Device Manager.

If the BIOS option isn't available then you may not be able to "uninstall it" as such because the device is still present. You could check with the manufacturer to see if the device can be physically removed from the laptop. Some laptop WiFi devices come on a small add-in circuit board (my own did), so this could be detached so the device would then no longer be present.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[TimTang]

G0AOZ (TechnicalUser)

I checked the BIOS, but no way to disable the device.

"disable it in Device Manager" does just that, but still can't uninstall.

The device is installed in a slot but also has 2 wires soldered to it. I will try pulling it out of the slot and just leave the wires connected.

Does anyone know any good tutorials on how to uninstall hardware manually by editing the registry and deleting drivers and dll's. I think this may be the only way I will be able to uninstall this bastard.

Thanks for any assistance.

 

[G0AOZ]

You said "The device is installed in a slot but also has 2 wires soldered to it". Might be worth taking a closer look to see if there are minature connectors for those wires. I'd be surprised if the board can be pulled out of the slot but the wires need unsoldering before it can be physically removed. They might just be simple push-on connectors of some sort.

From what you're telling us, actual physical removal of the hardware is what you want to achieve, so editing the Registry probably isn't the answer...

ROGER - G0AOZ.