- Jan 17, 2013
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I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium and a Netgear WNDA3100v2 N600 wireless adapter.
Occasionally my wireless will go out (gives me the yellow caution symbol). Sometimes simply unplugging the adapter and reinserting it works, but usually it doesn't. If I click my wireless icon and click "troubleshoot problems", sometimes it fixes it but usually it get stuck on "resetting the wireless connection". At this point I go from the yellow caution triangle over the wireless icon to a red X over an Ethernet icon. It never progresses past this point, so I have to cancel it. I then try to re-enable the connection manually through the adapter settings, and the small "Enabling..." window comes up. It stays there indefinitely and the connection never gets fixed. Trying to kill it in the task manager just crashes Windows Explorer. Once it recovers and I have my desktop again, I'm back at the start with the yellow icon.
The only thing I've found that fixes the connection is restarting the computer. However, I get stuck on the Windows "shutting down..." screen and, after up to two hours, get a BSoD. I shut down with the power button, reboot, "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown, restart normally, etc., etc.," and everything works fine. This, however is a pretty big pain when I'm just trying to get my internet connection working again.
After googling the cause of the blue screen, all I could get was that it's a "driver conflict". I tried every search I could think of involving Windows 7 and my adapter. I'm pretty sure they're related because this didn't start until I switched over from ethernet to wireless and installed the adapter.
I've made sure that Windows doesn't have any updates to install, so that's not the reason for the shutdown hangup. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the adapter (multiple times), deleting the network info and setting it up again, updating all of my device drivers through the device manager, and I even reinstalled Windows so I could start as "from scratch" as possible. Nothing has worked. I'd really rather not have to rearrange my entire living room just to put my computer close enough to the modem to use an Ethernet cable, or try to route 25 feet of cable neatly around the room. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong?
Occasionally my wireless will go out (gives me the yellow caution symbol). Sometimes simply unplugging the adapter and reinserting it works, but usually it doesn't. If I click my wireless icon and click "troubleshoot problems", sometimes it fixes it but usually it get stuck on "resetting the wireless connection". At this point I go from the yellow caution triangle over the wireless icon to a red X over an Ethernet icon. It never progresses past this point, so I have to cancel it. I then try to re-enable the connection manually through the adapter settings, and the small "Enabling..." window comes up. It stays there indefinitely and the connection never gets fixed. Trying to kill it in the task manager just crashes Windows Explorer. Once it recovers and I have my desktop again, I'm back at the start with the yellow icon.
The only thing I've found that fixes the connection is restarting the computer. However, I get stuck on the Windows "shutting down..." screen and, after up to two hours, get a BSoD. I shut down with the power button, reboot, "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown, restart normally, etc., etc.," and everything works fine. This, however is a pretty big pain when I'm just trying to get my internet connection working again.
After googling the cause of the blue screen, all I could get was that it's a "driver conflict". I tried every search I could think of involving Windows 7 and my adapter. I'm pretty sure they're related because this didn't start until I switched over from ethernet to wireless and installed the adapter.
I've made sure that Windows doesn't have any updates to install, so that's not the reason for the shutdown hangup. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the adapter (multiple times), deleting the network info and setting it up again, updating all of my device drivers through the device manager, and I even reinstalled Windows so I could start as "from scratch" as possible. Nothing has worked. I'd really rather not have to rearrange my entire living room just to put my computer close enough to the modem to use an Ethernet cable, or try to route 25 feet of cable neatly around the room. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong?
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