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‎11-28-2022 11:52 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion Elite HPE-195a Desktop PC
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

My PC has never had bluetooth in the bast, only Wi-Fi. Recently, I pulled an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 from an old laptop,  and swapped the desktop's Wi-Fi only card with the Intel Wi-Fi + Bluetooth card. Wi-Fi works fine, but bluetooth doesn't work and isn't detected in "devmgmt.msc" (Device Manager). I'm not sure if there is an option in BIOS I need to enable? By the looks of it, there isn't. 

 

I have installed Intel PROSet Bluetooth and a driver for it to no success.

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‎11-29-2022 07:12 AM

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Hi:

 

It is very possible that since your PC is more than 10 years old that the HMC Wi-Fi card slot does not support Bluetooth.

 

Back in those days, very few if any notebook and desktop PC's had Wi-Fi card slots that supported a combination Wi-Fi/Bluetooth adapter.  Most notebooks had a separate Bluetooth module and Bluetooth on desktops was achieved by adding a USB Bluetooth adapter.

 

Other folks have tried to install combination Wi-Fi/Bluetooth cards in older PC's and the BT didn't work.

 

In some cases, you have to mask some pins on the Wi-Fi card in order for the BT to work (assuming the slot is wired to support BT).

 

This video shows such a procedure...

 

Intel 7260 Wifi/Bluetooth Card Fix - YouTube

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