I have one of those
noname boxes, which has been working fine. Sadly, it ran out of its puny MMC storage, so I decided to install a fresh copy of Win10 (downloaded on the same day from MS, not the manufacturer's OEM) on a newly installed 2.5" SATA SSD. Everything went reasonably well, but right after the installation there was a bunch of driverless devices in the device manager, so I installed the chipset drivers and the DPTF from the manufacturer (driver package
here), which I believe installed all the devices. I also installed Intel's driver assistant, which installed the latest wifi, BT, and graphics drivers - the same way I always updated those drivers for as long as I had this computer.
And so now we have a problem. Pairing any BT headphones is either impossible or the sound is severely garbled/choppy usually followed by a complete disconnect -- unless the headset is right next to the device. When looking for devices, this computer sees pretty much nothing, while my other computers see a whole bunch of devices. For a second I thought that the added SSD was blocking the antenna, so I disabled the built-in adapter and tried a USB BT dongle that absolutely works -- the same behavior as with the one built-in. There is nothing connected to this machine that wasn't connected before I reinstalled Win10.
The power plan is "max performance," no power-related settings in the BT radio device properties. I tried the BT troubleshooter: it finds "Check Bluetooth radio status" and says it's been fixed, but nothing really changes.
Any help will be hugely appreciated.
