Wireless hidden in Device Manager drivers

Hello

Wireless driver of my computer is not visible in the list of devices in Device Manager. If I go to the view and show hidden devices was able to see the wireless card listed but its faded. Not able to find my wireless network and sharing Center > change map settings. Not even able to connect to internet using wireless.

Things I tried to do mine.

(1) power to flee

(2) load default BIOS

(3) flashed the BIOS
(4) update the wireless drivers

(5) has been the restoration of the system to point when wireless was active

(6) formatting the computer using my restore System Image

Still no go.

I don't know the last resort is to replace the wireless card but I just want to ask the community is there anything else I could do to. and also is it possible to map wireless device manager.

using Windows 8, 64 bits

Dell laptop

Card Wireless Dell 1703.

Thank you

Hi Slim,

Thanks for the reply.

Follow the steps below.

(a) first of all, open the Start Menu and right-click on computer and select Properties.

(b) in the left pane, click Advanced system settings, and then click environmentvariables. Alternatively, simply open the control panel and type of Environment Variables.

(c) now in the box user variables, click New, and then type

devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices

(d) in the name text box of the Variable & 1 in the Variable value box. This will outline a flag to allow you to now view unused devices.

(e) now type devmgmt.msc in start search and press ENTER to open the Device Manager.

(f) on the view tab and select Show devices. Expand the branches in the tree of devices & look for the faded icon. They indicate unused device drivers.

You can even refer to the image below.

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