I have a 5 year old laptop purchased from PC Specialist that is, in 99/100 ways still damn awesome. However the recent Windows 10 update has given me the widely known problem of the wifi turning itself off. I have kept ahead of this through scrupulous driver updates and, if needed, restoring the laptop to previous settings. This has worked for as long as the wifi issue was linked to Windows updates except yesterday wifi dropped (seemingly same problem as before) but there was no Windows update to cause it (or update of any kind that I can see). I have updated all the drivers again but no progress. The usual ways to fix this that pollute the Windows 10 help forums do not work.
Any help appreciated.
Laptop details:
Running Windows 10 Home, version 1709 and OS build 16299.402
Processor (CPU) - Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Extreme i7-3940XM (3.00GHz) 8MB
Memory (RAM) - 16GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk - 750GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
SSD CACHE DRIVE - 40GB INTEL® 310 mSATA MLC SSD - (mini PCIe SSD for extra storage)
Network Facilities - GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ADVANCED-N 6235 (300Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
Any help appreciated.
Laptop details:
Running Windows 10 Home, version 1709 and OS build 16299.402
Processor (CPU) - Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Extreme i7-3940XM (3.00GHz) 8MB
Memory (RAM) - 16GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card - NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk - 750GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
SSD CACHE DRIVE - 40GB INTEL® 310 mSATA MLC SSD - (mini PCIe SSD for extra storage)
Network Facilities - GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ADVANCED-N 6235 (300Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
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