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Demsrule86

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7. That happened to me also. I used an internet USB adaptor and downloaded the drivers...

Reply to DURHAM D (Reply #6)

Sat Jul 29, 2017, 07:19 PM

Jul 2017

It was a pain. I also had ethernet over electric so I could have done it that way. I have fixed more computers who have the blue screen or black screen of death after those damn updates. I truly hate Microsoft. If they come after my relatively new laptops or desktops, I will run Linux.

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