Dead WiFi Card in T60

[brian-ky]

Has anyone else had their 3945ABG built-in WiFi card go dead on them.

Mine suddenly stopped working last night. Showing as ! point in Windows Device Manager.

Tried to uninstall/reinstall the card.
Tried updating the driver
Tried flashing the BIOS
Tried reseating the card

Same problem.

Error message in Device Manager says: "Unable to start this device. Error 10"

Testing of the card in BIOS and PC Doctor indicate the card was working fine.

Swapped hard drive into a different T60. Problem went away.


Lenovo tech support is sending me a new WiFi card.

Has anyone else had similar problems?

[southy]

Don't laugh, but I once forgot to switch it on with the hardware switch (little black slider on the front of the T60).

[brian-ky]

Forgot to add ... yes the black switch on the front of T60 was set to "ON"/"green".

Anyone else had problems w/ a WiFi card going bad on them in the T60?

[Qoz3a]

umm ..
for how long it was working (first time u used it) ?

[brian-ky]

umm ..
for how long it was working (first time u used it) ?

It had been working for ~10 days before it died.

I was running on battery (full charge) when it stopped working.

[GomJabbar]

Generally speaking, if electronics are going to fail, they will usually fail soon after being put into use or else they will fail after a long time. This is the primary reason for burn-in periods that some computer manufacturers use to find out if the hardware will fail early on.

[brian-ky]

Update:

Replaced WiFi card w/ replacement from Lenovo. T60 is now working properly.

Confirmed that the problem was failure of the 3945ABG card.

At least Lenovo is quick on sending replacements out.