get bluetooth enabled/working?

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i'd like to get bluetooth working. but it seems i've bumped into dead ends and no avail yet to get bluetooth working on windows 10 64-bit.

i tried both bluetooth drivers from the official product's driver page from hp "sp50180" & "sp52533"

driver page - http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-dv5-2100-Entertainment-Notebook-PC-serie...

i tried running both in compability mode for xp sp3 and windows 7 no avail, they didn't work

"sp52533" outputs the error "bluetooth hardware must be switched on to run this setup package" but the thing is that i've yet to see/find bluetooth under devices so i can enable it

"sp50180" outputs error "this app can't run on this pc" as i said before - i tried compability mode for both xp sp3 and windows 7. it did not work either

under c:\SWSetup\SP50180 there's "Inst.exe" and "BTW.msi"

both let me install the driver/software but it does not work, i still didn't find bluetooth under > devices in settings even after install/installed these

would really appreciate the solution/fix/workaround to resolve this to get my bluetooth going for windows 10 64-bit.

i don't want to revert back to windows 7 just to get bluetooth working. i just want to use my bluetooth speaker with my laptop. 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

According to the product specs page for your notebook, it does not come with built in bluetooth networking.

http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-dv5-2100-Entertainment-Notebook-PC-series/4210545/mo...

If it did, that feature would have been listed along with the 802.11b/g/n WLAN wireless connectivity specification.

Then I looked up the model wireless network adapter your notebook has in the parts list...

http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?SearchText=XH004UA

It does not list a separate bluetooth module and the Atheros AR9285 802.11 b/g/n (1x1) WiFi adapter (Most of World) if that is the card you see listed under the network adapters device manager category, is not a combination wireless/bluetooth adapter.

So, I would say that you are getting the 'bluetooth hardware must be switched on' message because there is a complete absence of the bluetooth hardware, which according to all I have written, makes sense as to why you can't get the bluetooth to work.