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Win 10 did an update and now my wifi dongle stopped working.

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prowler351

Discussion Starter · Jun 3, 2016

Belkin usb wifi dongle f5d8053 v3 stopped working after windows 10 updated yesterday. Device manager says no driver for it.

Tried uninstalling and reinstalling driver. Tried letting Windows use a generic driver (none found). Tried different USB ports and powering off the system. Nothing.

No system restore points available to use. Dongle has worked with win 10 for months.

Any ideas? Thanks

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TerryNet

· #2 · Jun 4, 2016

Did you try backing up to the previous wireless driver? And then try the latest driver from Belkin's web site?

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prowler351

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jun 4, 2016

TerryNet said:
Did you try backing up to the previous wireless driver? And then try the latest driver from Belkin's web site?

Driver hasn't been updated by belkin in 5 years. No driver to revert back to.

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MichaelJD

· #4 · Jun 4, 2016

It could of become faulty?

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crjdriver

· #5 · Jun 4, 2016

There is no win10 support for that device. The latest os supported is win7.
Have you tried removing the recent update? If not, do so. Other than that, the only thing I could suggest is to purchase a device that actually supports win10.

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flavallee

· #6 · Jun 4, 2016

crjdriver is correct.
These are the supported Windows operating systems for version 3:

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prowler351

Discussion Starter · #7 · Jun 4, 2016

MichaelJD said:
It could of become faulty?

Suddenly becoming faulty after an update is nearing the realm of impossible.

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prowler351

Discussion Starter · #8 · Jun 4, 2016

crjdriver said:
There is no win10 support for that device. The latest os supported is win7.
Have you tried removing the recent update? If not, do so. Other than that, the only thing I could suggest is to purchase a device that actually supports win10.

Can you roll back a win 10 update? I know it's not listed as working for Windows 10, but it's been working perfect with 10 for a year on this system.

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prowler351

Discussion Starter · #9 · Jun 4, 2016

flavallee said:
crjdriver is correct.
These are the supported Windows operating systems for version 3:

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Not supported, but has still been working for the last year on it.

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flavallee

· #10 · Jun 4, 2016

I don't know what chipset(Realtek, Ralink, Broadcom, etc.) that USB wireless adapter has, so it's unknown if a fully-functional Windows 10 driver exists for it.
It's my guess it's been running with a generic driver.

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TerryNet

· #11 · Jun 4, 2016

prowler351 said:
Can you roll back a win 10 update?

You can roll-back a driver that was updated. But in post # 3 you said "No driver to revert back to." So, if the driver was not updated, what was?

You can uninstall an update. At least I'm pretty sure that still worked when I had 10 on an old PC. Don't know about a roll back.

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crjdriver

· #12 · Jun 4, 2016

Yes, you can uninstall an update. You need to know which update you want to uninstall.

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prowler351

Discussion Starter · #13 · Jun 4, 2016

TerryNet said:
You can roll-back a driver that was updated. But in post # 3 you said "No driver to revert back to." So, if the driver was not updated, what was?

You can uninstall an update. At least I'm pretty sure that still worked when I had 10 on an old PC. Don't know about a roll back.

I'll check into undoing the update and see what happens. But yes, no older version to roll back to according to the device manager.

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TonyB25

· #14 · Jun 4, 2016

Uninstalling an update isn't a good long term strategy since the update will automatically install again later.

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