Inspiron 15 3542 Wireless card not showing.

[jvick221]

I have almost exhausted every solution i can think of in getting this laptop up and running. I have been fixing this laptop for my girlfriends mom. The original hard drive was failing so i popped in a new drive and unfortunately had to fresh install windows due to corruption of important data.
I have tried installing every dell driver from their page for networking cards, I still have yet to have the networking card appear. I installed chipset drivers, after talking to dell they gave me a new file to download which was supposed to work but gave me an error about "installing on this platform". Edit: I also see "Network Controller" with a yellow indicator of something not being right.
It is running Windows 8.1.
The network drivers i have tried are the 1704 wifi+bluetooth and 1705 wifi+bluetooth. any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[jvick221]

I may have fixed this somehow through a re-installation of the driver. I'm not sure how this would have fixed it due to the 1 Restore, Endless installs and re-installs of drivers. Unfortunately it is now installing 61 updates. will post back in here to update on my situation. In case the issue is still here please feel free to leave answers or suggestions.

 

[jvick221]

So in case anyone in the future has this issue, with the drivers already installed i ran some of the again. specifically, the Airplane switch driver. After that i ran the Wireless adapter + bluetooth driver again and it installed this time.

 

[jvick221]

So in case anyone in the future has this issue, with the drivers already installed i ran some of the again. specifically, the Airplane switch driver. After that i ran the Wireless adapter + bluetooth driver again and it installed this time.