Installing Widcomm Bluetooth drivers under Vista x64


After upgrading my machine to Vista x64, I found my Broadcom Bluetooth 2.0+EDR driver had not been detected. This was no real surprise - I was actually expecting more problems than this. I visited the Broadcom site to download their latest Bluetooth drivers.

After the 33M download, the Broadcom Bluetooth installer tried to run, and fell over.

I scoured the Web looking for assistance to no avail. Finally I found a Lenovo site offering x64 drivers for their Broadcom Bluetooth software. I installed the x64 Bluetooth driver part, of the package and re-tried the Broadcom driver, and it installed seamlessly.

Here's the instructions in case anyone else is having the same problems:

1. Get the 68bu10ww.exe driver from the Lenovo support site.

2. Double click the package to extract the drivers.

3. Open device manager, and select the Broadcom driver, update driver, and choose the x64 subfolder from the extracted Lenovo package (it defaults to C:\DRIVERS\Vista\BTOOTH\Win64).

4. once the drivers are installed go to the Broadcom Bluetooth update page, and download and update their driver. This is necessary if you want all of their great Blutooth profiles i.e. headset, remote etc.

2 comments:

urbancommando said...

Awesome! Worked a treat on Vista Ultimate 64-bit. Thanks :-)

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