SP2 made my bluetooth mouse undiscoverable

I've been using the MS Bluetooth Notebook 5000 mouse with my HP notebook
that has a built-in bluetooth transmitter. Though the automatic
discovery never worked between the two but after manually adding the
mouse after each bootup, the mouse worked fine before the SP2 upgrade.
Since then the mouse doesn't show up in the paring window at all. Has
anybody else had this experience? Any solution to it?
JP

 

"JP" <wiseguyxxxx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've been using the MS Bluetooth Notebook 5000 mouse with my HP notebook
> that has a built-in bluetooth transmitter. Though the automatic discovery
> never worked between the two but after manually adding the mouse after
> each bootup, the mouse worked fine before the SP2 upgrade. Since then the
> mouse doesn't show up in the paring window at all. Has anybody else had
> this experience? Any solution to it?
> JP

Microsoft made some changes to Bluetooth support in Vista with SP2.

It made Vista incompatible with Broadcom's WIDCOMM 6.1 drivers and software.
Broadcom recently released WIDCOMM 6.3 to fix this and it works for the most
part (there are still some bugs).

I mention Broadcom, because although they only manufacture the Bluetooth
communications chip, a lot of hardware vendors sell devices using it under
their own brand name.

You mentioned the laptop was made by HP, but not the model. So I can't
check the web page to see if that is what you have.


Broadcom's install program will actually do the check to verify that you are
using their chip before the actual downloading and installing of any
software, it doesn't contain any drivers. So you might want to give it a
try anyways.

http://www.broadcom.com/support/bluetooth/update.php