Dell Inspiron 17R N7010 - No bluetooth

[PopcornMobo]

I got this dell for cheap. It was in a bundle of three laptops for 50 euro. One problem i've run into is that even though this laptop has a separate BT board on it windows does not detect it. I've installed Win 8.1 Pro since on all of my other laptops that had BT and it worked right away after the win8.1 install. On this dell the BT does not even show up in device manager. Not sure if there's a fix out there. I tried installing drivers but nothing changed. Would be nice to get some BT since the aux cable on my BT headphones is nearing it's end.
BT module: bcm92046md_gen
Ps: to take the BT card out requires full disassembly of the laptop to remove it and disassembling this thing is a pain in the ass.

[caspian]

Re: Dell Inspiron 17R N7010 - No bluetooth

use an external USB Bluetooth Dongle. it is really cheap and very small. this laptop does not worth disassembling just to repair Bluetooth.

[ktmmotocross]

Re: Dell Inspiron 17R N7010 - No bluetooth

try to install whole bunch of its drivers and maybe u have enabling key on keyboard

[PopcornMobo]

Re: Dell Inspiron 17R N7010 - No bluetooth

try to install whole bunch of its drivers and maybe u have enabling key on keyboard

Well, according to device manager there is not a single missing driver as far as i can tell. And there is no hotkey to enable the BT either. There is a hotkey to disable the trackpad that isn't doing anything, could that be part of the issue?