{"id":649,"date":"2021-05-05T14:44:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:44:27","slug":"lenovo-thinkpad-w540-wireless-connectivity-problems-with-windows-10-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/2021\/05\/05\/lenovo-thinkpad-w540-wireless-connectivity-problems-with-windows-10-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo ThinkPad W540 Wireless Connectivity Problems With Windows 10 Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I recently worked on a Lenovo ThinkPad W540 laptop. The customer had upgraded this Windows 7 PC to Windows 10 a couple of years earlier and had never had any problems until recently when it started dropping off the Internet every 2 or 3 minutes.\u00a0 She had always used the laptop with a wired connection but recently started using a wireless connection instead and this is when the Internet started dropping.<\/p>\n

At first, I thought maybe it just needed new drivers but that didn’t fix the problem. I upgraded the BIOS which also did nothing to help. I removed the last Windows 10 update, as these updates often cause problems of one kind or another, but this didn’t help either.<\/p>\n

I finally checked to see if her wireless card was compatible with Windows 10 and found out it wasn’t. The original card is AC7260 which is compatible with Windows 7 and 8.<\/p>\n

I found a card that is compatible with the Lenovo W540 that would work with Windows 10 and found the N7260 which works fine in this computer.\u00a0 Problem solved with a new $10.00 wireless card. The customer would have discovered this right after she upgraded to Windows 10 if she had ever used the PC wirelessly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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