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Installed Windows 7 Now Can't Connect to Wifi
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I'm new around here and I looked around a little bit before making this post and couldn't really find anything too helpful so hopefully someone can finally help me out.
I'm starting school in about a week so I wanted to fix up my Toshiba Satellite laptop (needed a new HDD) instead of spending more money to just buy a new laptop.
I installed the HDD and installed Windows 7 and it all went fine. One of my only issues is that I can't connect to my wifi. I've looked around Toshiba and tried to install some different drivers but nothing was too successful. And the other issue I am facing right now is a non-genuine version of Windows message but idrc about that right now.
Maybe I am just installing the incorrect drivers for my Satellite model or maybe just giving up a step to early?
Any help on the not being able to connect to wifi would be much appreciated and the non-genuine issue too but just want wifi right now.
Thanks to anyone that reads and/or can help me out at all!
P.S. My model for my laptop is Toshiba Satellite A665-S5170.
I'm starting school in about a week so I wanted to fix up my Toshiba Satellite laptop (needed a new HDD) instead of spending more money to just buy a new laptop.
I installed the HDD and installed Windows 7 and it all went fine. One of my only issues is that I can't connect to my wifi. I've looked around Toshiba and tried to install some different drivers but nothing was too successful. And the other issue I am facing right now is a non-genuine version of Windows message but idrc about that right now.
Maybe I am just installing the incorrect drivers for my Satellite model or maybe just giving up a step to early?
Any help on the not being able to connect to wifi would be much appreciated and the non-genuine issue too but just want wifi right now.
Thanks to anyone that reads and/or can help me out at all!
P.S. My model for my laptop is Toshiba Satellite A665-S5170.
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Ok the problem may be your windows is not genuine that means you didn't pay for it and installing drivers on a non genuine copy of Windows sometimes doesn't work so you will have to solve that problem either by buying a product key from say like [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
There is another why to get it "genuine" for free but i cannot discuss that on here
You will have to connect your laptop to the Internet to allow windows to check if the product key is real you can try to connect an ethernet cable that should work
And then after your windows is genuine you should have no problems installing drivers
There is another why to get it "genuine" for free but i cannot discuss that on here
You will have to connect your laptop to the Internet to allow windows to check if the product key is real you can try to connect an ethernet cable that should work
And then after your windows is genuine you should have no problems installing drivers
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thank you for the advice but i figured it out. I just had to download the ethernet driver on a different computer then install it onto my laptop via usb and then connect the ethernet into my laptop and then i ran a program called driver booster and it installed the rest of the drivers that i was missing.
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