Wireless switch turned off.. Satellite A660

Hello,
My mother has had this A660 Satellite for a year or three now, recently we had a harddrive failure that we got fixed at a computer repair shop, however they seem to have not fully reinstalled all the drivers..
My main problem is that suddenly on Sunday my father turned on this laptop and the internet wouldn't connect.
I've been trying to reconnect it and it keeps telling me the Wireless Capability Switch is turned off. As far as I'm aware there is no "physical" switch, but I do know of the wireless "soft button" on the front panel as well as the fn+f8, neither work.
Fn+f8 doesn't even show a "wireless" option at the top, it just skips F8 all together, and the soft button is always light up, when i push it, it dims for a moment and lights back up.. but nothing happens.
I've also tried restoring the BIOS settings to default after doing a system "restart" i believe it's called..(unplugging everything + battery and holding power for 15 seconds), running a system restore to before the issue, reinstalling several drivers (WAN, LAN, WLAN, TVAP, RealTek Wireless Driver).... so far nothing has worked.. Any suggestions on what I could possibley do?
Thanks,
Livi
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There is one other thing to try (no effect on the buttons but may turn wireless on). Go to C:/Program Files/Toshiba/TBS/TBSWireless.exe. Toggling the TBSWireless.exe file ,if you have it, will turn the wireless on/off. That is the final straw, Livi. The only thing left will be a complete HDD/OS recovery to out-of-box state the day you first started the machine. Read your USER'S GUIDE starting on page 61 to find out what that entails and what you must do to prepare for it.
Good Luck!
C.B.
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