I think my wifi hates me

Discussion in 'Software' started by ShockTroop, Apr 18, 2007.

  1. ShockTroop

    ShockTroop Specialist

    I'm pretty sure I've been having driver troubles recently with my wifi card now that I've started using it.

    I have an Asus M2N-32 SLI Deluxe Wifi mobo, with the AP-Solo station/AP thingy. The wifi card is listed as a Realtek RTL8187 USB network adapter. I have Creative sound drivers so I know it's not my sound card. I'm running WinXP Pro with SP2.

    First I got a BSOD and the DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error with RTL8187.sys (my wifi driver) every couple hours, so I uninstalled the drivers that came with the computer (don't know what version) and Windows found and installed local drivers.
    I got the error again, but this time far less frequent. I came here, Asus, Realtek, and a couple other sites (the highest version number I got was something like 5.1279), and eventually I found that driver version 5.1230 stopped the error. This is the version that Asus provides.
    Recently I got the same error, but with a different driver (crap, can't remember). Then I got another for ndis.sys, which seems to relate to the NIC. Just now I had a completely different error, STOP 0x000007F (then four 0x00000000 in parentheses), which apparently means UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP. There was no driver file associated with the error.

    I'm pretty sure it's just the drivers. I tried switching RAM around and did memory tests, and that's all good. I found that other people were having problems with their Realtek cards, but I didn't find a working resolution. I also tried updating the mobo drivers, but didn't find a more recent non-beta one. Since the errors before the STOP involved IRQ conflicts, I checked for such, and found none. Of course, it only listed PCI devices, so how it related to my wifi I don't know because it's listed as USB in the device manager.

    Other than the wifi drivers I haven't been fooling with hardware or other drivers.
    Does anyone know what driver version works properly, or how to solve this issue?
    Maybe that's what I get for being lazy and updating wifi drivers through Windows Update. :p (EDIT: Heh, nevermind, after reinstalling the drivers it got relisted)

    Thanks!
     
  2. TLobes

    TLobes Private E-2

    I have the same issue, only mine is with an MSI K8N Neo4 (with 7125 bios), X1900XT, and X-Fi Card. It will blue screen with the 0x0000007F (0x0...,0x0,0x0,0x0) everytime I try and play a movie. Before this, it would stop the computer only to where the mouse would move and I could see the alt+tab, and then it would blue screen. I did a mem test overnight, it was fine. I'm replacing the SATA cables tomorrow. I can't think of anything else short of the motherboard. I tried reinstalling windows and so on, no luck. It's worked before just fine, no hardware changes, not sure whats going on.


    Anyone else have this or ideas?
     

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