Manual Driver Installation Manual Driver Installation
The manual driver installation should only be attempted after the Widcomm software has been installed. The description below describes how to replace the Microsoft driver with the Widcomm driver. If the Microsoft driver isn't present you will not be able to complete the following procedure. If you have a PC Card you should have already read the PC Cards section. The method for doing a manual driver update is different on different versions of Windows, please use the procedure that corresponds to your version of Windows
Windows XP / 2003 forced manual driver installation
- Open the system control panel, and in the "Hardware" tab, and click on "Device Manager"
- Expand the "Bluetooth Radios" section of the device list
- There might be a "Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator" and another device listed
- Double click on the other device, and in the "driver" tab, click on "update driver"
- Select "Install from a list or specific location"
- Select "Don't search, I will choose the driver to install"
- Click on "Have disk"
- Type in "C:\Drivers\Win\BDCACT"
- Click OK
- There should be 1 single device listed
- Click Next
- Click OK
- The system tray icon should now be white & blue. If it isn't, reboot your PC.
It still can't find a driver
Go back to the Troubleshooting section.