Device in Bluetooth Devices keeps disappearing

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Martin <martinunderscoretvl@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<nrrfj05dmatd7v680alqd8hu1gpkk0r500@4ax.com>...
> I have an Iogear GBU301 USB dongle that I'm trying to get working on
> an XP home system with SP2. When I click on the blue "Bluetooth
> devices" icon in the taskbar, then click "Add", it will successfully
> find my Belkin bluetooth GPS device and it then appears in the
> "Devices" tab. However, when I close the "Bluetooth Devices" box and
> go back in, the Belkin device is no longer there.
>
> When I first plugged the dongle in, it seems to have recognized it
> fine and installed some built-in XP drivers for it. I then unplugged
> it and installed the Iogear bluetooth drivers from the CD. I think
> this might have screwed something up, because I ended up with two
> slightly different looking bluetooth icons in the taskbar and neither
> of them worked. So I uninstalled the Iogear stuff and this is where
> I'm at.
>
> Can anyone suggest something to try to get this working
> Thanks in advance,
> Martin


Martin, I have the same unit and did exactly what you did. Then in
reading the instructions note that they make a big deal about not
plugging the unit in until after the IOGear drivers are installed.

What I am going to do, and suggest you do the same is to uninstall the
whole thing (IOGear and Windows drivers) and then reinstall following
the instructions on paper (not onscreen).

Robert