- Oct 24, 2016
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Any time I restart my desktop or turn it on then off again, windows attempts to install a driver for my USB wireless adapter, a netgear A6210, and then I experience an awful intermittent connection (1-3 seconds connected, 3-6 disconnected in a constant cycle) until I go to device manager, uninstall the driver, and "check for hardware changes". After this, it works perfectly until the next restart.
I had this same issue with a previous wireless adapter that was slotted into the motherboard before this, which i pulled since i assumed it was just old and had bad drivers or something. And then I had the same exact issue with the new one. I've built this PC myself and this has only become an issue in the last month or two.
Things i've tried:
Unplugging/plugging back in the wireless adapter.
Updating my motherboard's chipset drivers for windows 10
Changing the settings for "device installation settings" (automatic download of device related icons/applications) to "No".
Downloading the drivers from Netgear's website and installing those.
Changing the power saving settings for everything on the computer to maximum performance
Changing the power saving settings for the wireless adapter under device manager to disallow win 10 from turning off the device to save power.
Disabling/Re-enabling the wifi adapter in device manager. (this seems to reset it to a functioning state similarly to redoing the drivers)
Partslist:
Athlon 860k
Asus A78M-A
Netgear AC6210
Linksys WMP600N (?, not sure if this exact model but this is the old internal adapter I was using until recently)
I had this same issue with a previous wireless adapter that was slotted into the motherboard before this, which i pulled since i assumed it was just old and had bad drivers or something. And then I had the same exact issue with the new one. I've built this PC myself and this has only become an issue in the last month or two.
Things i've tried:
Unplugging/plugging back in the wireless adapter.
Updating my motherboard's chipset drivers for windows 10
Changing the settings for "device installation settings" (automatic download of device related icons/applications) to "No".
Downloading the drivers from Netgear's website and installing those.
Changing the power saving settings for everything on the computer to maximum performance
Changing the power saving settings for the wireless adapter under device manager to disallow win 10 from turning off the device to save power.
Disabling/Re-enabling the wifi adapter in device manager. (this seems to reset it to a functioning state similarly to redoing the drivers)
Partslist:
Athlon 860k
Asus A78M-A
Netgear AC6210
Linksys WMP600N (?, not sure if this exact model but this is the old internal adapter I was using until recently)
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