How to enable Bluetooth on Asus laptop

As you know, in our time, few people use Bluetooth to transfer files from one medium to another. Especially when it comes to laptops. But the Bluetooth function is a must when you need to connect third-party wireless devices such as a mouse or a speaker.

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How to enable Bluetooth on Asus laptop

To activate Bluetooth on your laptop, press the key combination "Fn + F2".

On some models, the second key may be different. An antenna should be drawn on it.

Sometimes you can find a special button on the side of the case to turn on Bluetooth.

If your device does not want to respond to keys, try the next method. Click on "Start → Device Manager" and find the Bluetooth device adapter. Right-click on the Bluetooth module. Now, if it is enabled, it will be prompted to disable it.

The Properties tab will allow you to clarify additional information regarding your Bluetooth.

Availability of drivers

Check your Asus laptop for bluetooth enabled and if drivers are installed for the adapter to work. If not, then you need to download drivers to enable Bluetooth, configure them, and then start working.

It just so happens that even if you have a Bluetooth function on your device, you will need drivers to control it. Especially when operating system was installed manually.

Before downloading the driver, check the bitness of the operating system. This can be clarified by clicking "My Computer → Properties". Please note that you need a 64-bit operating system to enable Bluetooth. Windows system... Otherwise, you will have to do a rearrangement.

Having dealt with the system, you can proceed to the search for drivers for the laptop. Naturally, it is best to download from the manufacturer's official website. Make sure they are designed for your laptop model before downloading.

Quite often, a special disc with drivers is also sold along with a laptop. Try to find it and install it, because it will be much easier and faster.

As soon as you have the drivers, you now need to connect.

Although technology does not stand still, and nowadays many wireless types of networks have been invented for transmitting data, Bluetooth is still popular and widely used by users. If you need to transfer any file, picture or document to another device without wires and the Internet, then this type of transfer will definitely suit you, since any phone, tablet or laptop is equipped with it. If you don't have bluetooth adapter, you can buy it at any hardware store. The external adapter looks like a USB flash drive and is easy to carry around. In this article, you will learn how to turn on Bluetooth on your laptop and what to do if it won't turn on.

How to turn on bluetooth on a laptop

If your laptop absolutely has a Bluetooth adapter and has updated drivers, then the procedure will be quick and not take much time.

Open your laptop tray where most of the icons are located for quick access. Bluetooth always has the same icon that is familiar to everyone - it's an angular white letter "B" on a blue background. If you have it, but it glows red, the wireless network is disabled.

• Click on the icon with the right mouse button and click "Enable adapter".

• Wait a few seconds and the adapter turns on. From now on, you can use Bluetooth on your laptop.

What to do if bluetooth won't turn on

However, you may not have found the desired Bluetooth icon in the tray, or you are not at all sure that such a function is available on your laptop. To make sure, follow the algorithm below.

• First of all, log into your administrative account, as all changes to the system can only be made from this account.
• Click on Start in the lower left corner and open Control Panel.

• Sort by category and select the "Hardware and Sound" section.

• Now click on the "Device Manager" link in the "Devices and Printers" section. Wait until a new dispatcher window opens in front of you.

• This is where you need to find the item "Bluetooth Radios". There will be a small triangle next to it. Click on it to expand the parameter and open the subsections.

• Now you have two options for what is happening: either you will see the name of your Bluetooth radio module, or "Unidentified device" will be written instead. In the first case, everything is much easier, since you can find suitable drivers by searching on the Internet.
• In the case of an undefined device, right-click on it.

• Select Update Drivers. The model number will be automatically found and sent to the browser search.

• The easiest way to find your Bluetooth drivers is on the manufacturer's website. That is, if you have a laptop from HP, then you go to the HP website, if Dell - then to the Dell website. Do not try to install other people's drivers, it may negatively affect the system.

• After installing the drivers, restart your laptop. After that, open the tray and you will find the Bluetooth icon there. Turn it on by clicking on the right mouse button.

• To turn off the radio module, simply click on the icon again and select the "Disable adapter" option. From here it is easy to control the visibility of your signal, file sending and other options.

Despite the fact that every day there are more and more portable devices among consumers around the world, not all users know how to turn on bluetooth on a laptop, and whether it is generally built into a laptop. This article will tell readers how to determine if their laptop has bluetooth and how to activate it if it refuses to work properly for some reason.

Hey! Sometimes you need to very urgently connect something to your laptop via Bluetooth. Yes! Modern laptops are equipped with Bluetooth adapters, but at the most unexpected moment you don't even know how you can turn it on. Based on my experience, I will tell you about how to turn on bluetooth on a laptop in this article.

Is he there?

But before you turn it on, you need to confirm if you exactly have this adapter? Or maybe not, but we will try? If you are sure that you have it on your laptop, feel free to move on to other sections for your operating system. In the meantime, here I will pour a little theory.

For reference... Some laptop / netbook / ultrabook manufacturers carry Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules on one board. So after the failure of one, the other may also disappear.

Options for how to check for a "blue tooth":

• We check on the laptop for the presence of an icon or an inscription that there is Bluetooth. All important radio decals are located on the bottom of the laptop. But it's easier to find such an icon (but sometimes it doesn't exist either):

• You can go to Device Manager and see the presence of Bluetooth devices:

• If you didn't find anything on the stickers, then you can definitely find out your exact laptop model (on the same stickers or check), go to any online store and see the characteristics. There it is also indicated:

This should be enough. Let's not get too carried away, today we have a different topic. And I will reveal this issue in more detail some other time.

Hotkeys

One thing is the presence of a radio module, another thing is its hardware inclusion. Here is the approach:

1. The module must be in the laptop.
2. The module must be physically enabled.
3. The module must be enabled programmatically.

Now our task is to activate it physically. Some laptops are equipped with special buttons or levers to turn on the Bluetooth adapter, but most modern devices still provide the user with the ability to turn on via a key combination. I summarized the main manufacturers and the necessary combinations to activate the Bluetooth adapter on a laptop in the following table:

This is how it looks (and do not be alarmed that there is a Wi-Fi, explanation below):

There are also some peculiarities here. Remember above that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are often combined? Right now I'm sitting on Asus, and here is the same thing. Pressed once Fn + F2 - the wifi turned on, again - turned off. Bluetooth turned on again. And so everything possible options... The bottom line - try clicking before turning it on, perhaps you have the same nonsense. I myself have met the same on Samsung. But the Chinese DNS was, on the other hand, with separate remote buttons)

After the manipulations in the tray near the clock, something like the following icon should appear:

Sometimes this icon is hidden in the curtain:

And on some laptops a special light will light up:

If it is not visible, or has a different color, proceed to the next points. We'll launch it! Let's move on to activation in the operating system.

Windows 10

I'm starting to review actions in different operating systems with Windows 10, tk. at this moment I sit on it. Everything is very simple here. Take steps and you won't be wrong.

The easiest way first. We click in the lower right corner, and there we already find the bluetooth tile:

You can use it! And now an alternative option, you never know what with your panel.

Step 1. Start - Options

Step 2. Devices

Step 3. Bluetooth and Other Devices - ON

Step 4. Connection

I will not offer a picture for this item; in the picture above, a list of devices available for connection will appear below. Find what you need, click on it, connect. If suddenly it does not find anything - check again if the same blue icon in the tray, and most importantly, is there another device available for connection, tk. It's one thing to turn on bluetooth on another device, it's another to make it discoverable (relevant for phones).

In addition to these cases, at the end of the article I will focus on possible problems... But if suddenly there your problem is not resolved, leave comments, we will try to solve it together.

Windows 8 and 8.1

The next operating system, which did not really take root among the people, but is still found today. I personally sat on them, but automatically moved to the top ten. There is nothing complicated here either, everything has already been placed on separate panels.

But do you know where the settings on the "eights" are? That's right - we move the mouse to the right area of ​​the screen, and there the "curtain" comes out, with which we will begin.

Step 1. PC Settings - Computer and Devices

Step 2. Bluetooth - ON

Step 3. Looking for devices and connecting

Similar to the break section - a list of devices appears below, by clicking on which you can connect. If he doesn’t find it, we go into problems. But the article is more about turning on bluetooth on a laptop, and not pairing devices. So any question is in the comments.

Alternative, via the same right panel:

Windows 7

Out of support, but still the most frequently encountered legendary "seven". Everything here was a little confusing, but it works on the same principle. The bonus of this instruction is that you can use it to make the same bluetooth setting on a laptop and on new versions, but it will be a little more difficult.

Before the instruction, I suggest watching a video on this method:

Step 1. Control Panel - Network and Internet

Step 2. Network and Sharing Center

Step 3. Changing adapter parameters

Step 4. Bluetooth network connection

Other adapters will be located here - Wi-Fi, wired Ethernet, but our task is to find Bluetooth, right-click on it and select "Enable":

This is how we turned on our Bluetooth in the system. The connection to other devices is already in a different location.

Step 5. Control Panel - Add Device

Step 6. Looking for and connecting

Similar to the actions of new systems, we are waiting for the appearance of new devices and trying to connect to them:

XP

Now it is a very rare system, but you never know ... So, briefly. Access to the settings is located in the Control Panel. So we go there, and there we do the above thoughts. The video below is more about connecting to another device, but those who wish "oldmans" will figure it out without any problems:

MacOS

How could I forget about the owners of MacBooks. Honestly, I had to work with them only a couple of times, and in one of them I had to connect my phone via bluetooth. So with experience. There are not many actions here too, that's why it's a poppy)

Bluetooth - Turn on Bluetooth

On the upper curtain we find the icon we are familiar with, and there we are already looking for the corresponding option:

BIOS

In some cases, on a laptop, Bluetooth is initially turned off in BIOS. You just need to turn it on there. Biosov like motherboards a lot, I will not consider every model here, after all, this is a rare case. So look for BIOS settings for your specific laptop model and check if there is any inclusion of Bluetooth (sometimes it may not be at all). I am showing a couple of screenshots of how it might look:

External programs

Sometimes they use other external programs to turn on bluetooth. This is especially true for special utilities from laptop manufacturers. I will not consider, everything is individual from the model, but you need to know - if you have programs that came by default on sale, it is possible that the same switch is there.

Possible problems

The main problems in turning on the adapter, or why it does not turn on at all:

• It is not in the laptop - check all possible verification options, look at the manual for it, open the manufacturer's website for your specific model number (laptop assemblies are often very different).
• It is broken - here it is more from experience.
• It is not physically enabled - look for a separate button or keyboard shortcut. Or maybe turned off in the BIOS? If it is not turned on like this, then it is pointless to perform further actions.
• Driver problems and other troubles in Device Manager. Here you just need to open the Device Manager itself (Win + X and select Device Manager) and make sure that there are no exclamation marks in red or yellow near our adapter. If something is wrong, delete it from here, then "Update hardware configuration", wait for it to appear again in the list with newly installed drivers and restart the laptop. It usually helps.
• Another device is not available - this is also a common problem. Many people try to turn on bluetooth when everything is already on, but they forget to turn on another device.

Couldn't solve? There are cool comments below - write your question there with all the details, and I will try to answer it here or in a separate article. Have a nice day!