Andy wrote:
Is there a setting in the BIOS to turn bluetooth on and off for AMD systems?

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Product Name: F2A68HM-H

Many thanks,
Andy

Show me in the hardware block diagram, where it has Bluetooth ?
(Note - Postimg gets to mess with the file name, and it didn't have
underscore characters when I uploaded it!)

https://s16.postimg.org/8o4v0ke45/GA...HM-_H_mobo.gif

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The BIOS will *not* control add-on hardware. The BIOS has firmware
code blocks for chips which are actually soldered to the motherboard.

If you plug a USB Bluetooth nano receiver into a USB port,
it doesn't have a driver for that. The Bluetooth nano receiver
(like a Logitech Unifying receiver) can present a USB HID
interface. That means the radio portion is not exposed at
all, and all the BIOS can see is a USB wireless keyboard
or wireless mouse. The USB HID idea is used on purpose, to
make it easier for any OS or BIOS setup screen, to use it.

The BIOS does have generic Extended Int 0x13 USB storage device
support (hard drive emulation for USB sticks), such that you can
boot from a USB stick. But this does not imply that every USB
Class driver that the OS has, is shadowed by a similar capability
in the BIOS. The BIOS can't see and use your webcam, to take
pictures of you :-)

If you had a combo Wifi/Bluetooth tin-can module soldered to
the motherboard, they *could* provided an enable/disable for
the module in the peripheral chip section of the BIOS. But flipping
the switch basically disables that bus decide (the whole thing
would be shut off). For lower speed Wifi, that can be implemented
as a USB connection. Some faster ones might be PCI Express
single lane interfaces. But there's no confusing items like
that in the motherboard diagram above. Nothing
to raise suspicions such a control option exists.

Paul