Help bluetooth/game problems

Barrie

Ok i hope this is the right forum for starters.I dont know much on computers so all help is appreciated.I have a E-machines 820(If revelant)And Windows XP(I think sp2 is installed)

Promblem 1:
Ok,Heres what happend,I bought my belkin bluetooth adapter last year and it installed grand and most importantly it worked.Then after a while i noticed that the interface sort to speak changed.I used to have a Bluetooth icon in the taskbar that said bluetooth on "Pc"(My name of my Pc)It was also white(Active)But now its pretty complicated sending files via bluetooth to my phone.Its now red(Innactive) and when i click the icon bluetooth device not found bt stack shutting down.I have tried to restore the interface back to the original way(I tryed re-installing the software,and searching the net for updates but no good.)Then i read about windows sp2 gave problems with bluetooth dongles.Could this be the problem.When that was installed it affected the dongle?Somthing got to do with the software(Widcom or somthing)I really havent a clue about these things.What i realy want is it back to the original interface rather than this new complicated stuff.


Problem 2:
Most of my games wont play anymore when i insert the disk The error i get is:"The file system is not suitable for running M-dos and Microsoft Windows Applications"The title of the error is 16bit sub system
This problem never happend before as it and just appeared suddenly a few months ago.Could this be another affect of sp2 or does anybody know what the problem is.

Cheers

daywalker

not sure about your first problem never used bluetooth myself

as to problem number 2 have a look at this
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767

Megatron

ok i can help with the bluetooth issue .

The inf file bth.ini has been overwritten by SP2, what you need to do is rename it to bth.bak , reinstall your bluetooth drivers and that should sort you out .

Barrie

Cheers for all the help lads im going to try this out now.Hope it work as im at the stage of throwing it out the window

Barrie

Megatron wrote:

ok i can help with the bluetooth issue .

The inf file bth.ini has been overwritten by SP2, what you need to do is rename it to bth.bak , reinstall your bluetooth drivers and that should sort you out .

Ok where can i find the bth.ini file?I did a search and didnt find it?

Barrie

OK i found a file called"bth" and added the .bak exstension re-installed the software/driver and it didnt do anything.So then back to square one.I probaly did something wrond(I aint great with computers)so all help welcome.

daywalker

Found this on the belkin site, its a pdf file detailing a fix under windows xp sp2

http://www.belkin.com/uk/support/tech/bluetoothsp2.pdf

Megatron

Sorry for the late reply ;P

bth.ini can be found in C:\windows\inf

or sometimes it's in

c:\windows\system32\inf.

if it's not there you may have protecte files hidden best to turn that off.

Barrie

daywalker wrote:

Found this on the belkin site, its a pdf file detailing a fix under windows xp sp2

http://www.belkin.com/uk/support/tech/bluetoothsp2.pdf

OK that did it.What a relief cheers.Now to get my games working..
Thanks for all the help lads im *ucking delighted.

Barrie

Ok now my games and bluetooth are working.Thanks everyone.

So ok heres the last problem(I mean it )
I have the M-router for my pc to work with my phone over bluetooth.(It shares my internet connection via bluetooth.)It used to work but not anymore.The error message it gives me:

Failed to connect to nokia
Reason:"The M-router service could not be found on the device or bluetooth may be disabled"

Error Number:80042000

I did a search on google.But i hadnt a clue what i needed to do to solve the problem.

Help

daywalker

is the m-router part of the nokia pc suite, tried reinstalling?

maybe if you ask in the mobile forum they might help there?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=411

Barrie

Would re-installing it work?Its not part of the pc suite.Ill try re-installing it and ill post results hopefully that will work.

daywalker

Barrie wrote:

Would re-installing it work?Its not part of the pc suite.Ill try re-installing it and ill post results hopefully that will work.

Not sure, just making a suggestion, in most cases reinstalls can usually solve problems

Barrie

Cheers for that didnt work and i found out why.

I emailed the vendor(inutwave)or somthing and they told me both of my phones arent compatible but hopefully will be in the future.

Oh well.Cheers for all your help lads at least my games and bluetooth are working perfectly!