Asus - can I wipe and start again easily ?

Sagz_2

I have (comedy) dislexia. ........ guess how I read the title of this thread?

Asus - can I wipe and start again easily ?

BOBS

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Have you checked Device Manager to check if the Drivers are installed?
https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Eee_PC_1225B/HelpDesk_Download/

Is there an Fn switch combination to toggle Wireless on and off? All should be covered in the user manual.

Yes there is Fn switch to toggle which I have done and it shows on side of laptop that wireless on

Check the device manager - there is an exclamation mark under other devices and then network controller. Of course I cant do this until connected to internet.

Cant believe I have no ethernet cables in the house - have had clear out recently and thought why would I need those again !!!
Wee 99p order off ebay so hopefully wont take long to arrive.

Thank you for all your help!!!

NiftyDigits

BOBS wrote: »

Yes there is Fn switch to toggle which I have done and it shows on side of laptop that wireless on

Check the device manager - there is an exclamation mark under other devices and then network controller. Of course I cant do this until connected to internet.

Cant believe I have no ethernet cables in the house - have had clear out recently and thought why would I need those again !!!
Wee 99p order off ebay so hopefully wont take long to arrive.

Thank you for all your help!!!

Off course you can download the Drivers, perhaps if you are using another PC to post, on to a USB drive and then install them to the Netbook.

I have no idea as to why your Recovery partition would not install the Drivers. Odd.

Bykerlass

When I saw the title of the thread I thought it said

"Anus can I wipe and start again easily" ������ Perhaps I need to change my glasses ☺️

I'll get my coat.

BOBS

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Off course you can download the Drivers, perhaps if you are using another PC to post, on to a USB drive and then install them to the Netbook.

I have no idea as to why your Recovery partition would not install the Drivers. Odd.

would never have thought of that !! - off to find a USB !!

- theres me thinking this would be a 20 minute job !!

BOBS

BOBS wrote: »

would never have thought of that !! - off to find a USB !!

- theres me thinking this would be a 20 minute job !!

update found USB - downloaded wireless drive and copied to USB - tried to install on sons laptop but just opened random files of codes.
Guess may wait for Ethernet cable after all !!

debitcardmayhem

BOBS wrote: »

update found USB - downloaded wireless drive and copied to USB - tried to install on sons laptop but just opened random files of codes.
Guess may wait for Ethernet cable after all !!

won't work on that laptop go back to netbook, select wireless adaptor in device manager, update driver, click have disk and search the usb

NiftyDigits

BOBS wrote: »

update found USB - downloaded wireless drive and copied to USB - tried to install on sons laptop but just opened random files of codes.
Guess may wait for Ethernet cable after all !!

Did you extract from the .zip file beforehand?

Try again: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/Driver/WLAN_NE785H-V9_2_0_458.zip

BOBS

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Did you extract from the .zip file beforehand?

Try again: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/Driver/WLAN_NE785H-V9_2_0_458.zip

not sure what I did ..... problem might have been the way I put the driver onto USB - I copied and pasted it which was probably wrong but couldnt work out any other way to do it (using a Chromebook!)

NiftyDigits

BOBS wrote: »

not sure what I did ..... problem might have been the way I put the driver onto USB - I copied and pasted it which was probably wrong but couldnt work out any other way to do it (using a Chromebook!)

You can copy and paste it from the Chromebook. But then you need to right click on the .zip file and choose Extract All. Then you will have a new folder. Go into that and double click on ASUS Setup and continue to follow the prompts.