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T510 WiFi card suddenly dead?

T400/T410/T420 and T500/T510/T520 Series
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MikalE
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Re: T510 WiFi card suddenly dead?

#1 Post by MikalE » Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:13 pm

Find and reload the driver. Even if it's bad it should still show up in Device Manager.

Click the driver link at the top of the page and look for it.
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T510 i5 4384-DV7
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T520 i7QM 4242-4UU Highly Modified
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Re: T510 WiFi card suddenly dead?

#2 Post by RealBlackStuff » Thu Oct 08, 2020 12:42 am

You might want to clean the contacts with an eraser, till they shine, then reseat it.
But if I were you, I wouldn't waste any time on that POS N1000.
Get an N6200 (FRU 60Y3231) or N6300 (FRU 60Y3233) instead, they should work OOTB.
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Re: T510 WiFi card suddenly dead?

#3 Post by MikalE » Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:20 am

What happened to the original post?
A31p P-IV 2Ghz, 2MB, 2653-R6U
T500 T9600 2055-BE9
T510 i5 4384-DV7
T510 i7 4349-A64
T520 i7QM 4242-4UU Highly Modified
T16 i7 1260P 21BV000SUS

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Re: T510 WiFi card suddenly dead?

#4 Post by RealBlackStuff » Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:06 am

Looks like the Boss banned him for finding him in the Spammers' database.

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Re: T510 WiFi card suddenly dead?

#5 Post by MikalE » Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:59 am

Nice catch.
A31p P-IV 2Ghz, 2MB, 2653-R6U
T500 T9600 2055-BE9
T510 i5 4384-DV7
T510 i7 4349-A64
T520 i7QM 4242-4UU Highly Modified
T16 i7 1260P 21BV000SUS

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Re: T510 WiFi card suddenly dead?

#6 Post by pendragon1 » Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:43 am

i know this thread is old and OP has disappeared BUT i did find a solution on the t510s we have without wifi. in the bios there is a section under "security" called "i/o ports" and there are additional switches for wifi/bt etc, turn those on. we had 20 donated(edu) and 7 had no wifi, that was the fix. just figured i'd post that, as it may help someone else.

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