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PC Freeze with Wireless-N

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by felicia3

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Have PC freezing up totally on irregular but (too) frequent basis when connected to net using Linksys Wireless-N PCI adaptor. Have tried for Linksys driver updates (none) & systematic disables of possible conflicting programs, hardware drivers etc all without success. Any ideas on likely cause & how I can track this down?

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by bizintelligence

In order to find it is hardware issue can you try Linksys Wireless-N PCI adapter in other machine?

Depending upon the operating system can you also check for any IRQ/memory address conflicts with that device?

EDITED (23/06/2009): Just for testing try to disable LAN and then connect wireless.

Good Luck !

by felicia3

Thanks for that. FYI, I swapped adaptor with one in office & both have the freeze 'issues' at home but are OK in the office.
Using XP Pro SP3. No apparent (reported) IRQ/address conflicts. No LAN at home.

by rob miners

You can test the memory by running Windows Memory Diagnostic that can be downloaded from here:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp.

If memory problems are found, try re-seating the RAM in different slots. If it doesn't work, replace the defective RAM.

by felicia3

Will run test as advised. Hope this is not the problem as cannot get replacement RAM so new RAM = new CPU, mainboard etc .... arghhh.

by rob miners

that it worked in newer than your home Systems. Also try it in different slots. You could try updating your Motherboard Drivers especially the Chipset. I don't know that I would go as far as flashing the BIOS but I will add it anyway. It can be a bummer sometimes working with older Systems.

by tintoman

It could be that your wireless router is broadcasting on a different channel than your adapter is set to.
You can change this is the settings of either device

by felicia3

Could be. No channel selection on device. I live condominium and the router is building owned.

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