• Repeated BSOD after plugging in wireless network adapter
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So I recently had to buy and install a wireless network adapter on my PC cause I can't get wired internet access in the university accommodation I just moved to. For a while everything was fine and I configured my settings so that I could access the university's wireless network as they instructed. But now after about 20-60 minutes of having my adapter plugged in and connected to the internet I get a BSOD saying BAD_POOL_HEADER. Initially I ignored it cause I figured it would be fine after restarting. But this happens consistently whenever I have it plugged in. I have tried reinstalling multiple times and tried installing just the drivers for the adapter without the software package that came with it but I still got the same errors. The network adapter was a NETGEAR N150 WNA1100 wireless USB adapter and my specs are as follows; OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit Processor: Intel Core2 Q6600 2.4GHz RAM: 4GB GPU: nVidia 9800GTX+ I would really appreciate the help cause it's getting mighty irritating having to restart my computer every half hour and it's making online gaming quite impossible.
Are you sure these drivers are vista compatible?
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;25271241]Are you sure these drivers are vista compatible?[/QUOTE] Yeah, I just checked on the side of the box.
Can you pull me up the event log? Goto start -> eventvwr.msc hit enter. Its going to be under the SYSTEM category. Probably under a red ! symbol, and will give you the dump text.
What's the exact stop code?
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;25280204]Can you pull me up the event log? Goto start -> eventvwr.msc hit enter. Its going to be under the SYSTEM category. Probably under a red ! symbol, and will give you the dump text.[/QUOTE] This is the only thing I found under a red ! symbol, it said "The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: i8042prt" There are quite a few instances of it too. Also for above poster, the actual STOP text changed every time but this is the last one I recorded. *** STOP 0x00000019 (0x00000020, 0xD29F67F8, 0XD29F68E0, 0X081D0007)
Could really use the help here still. Anyone?
A BAD_POOL_HEADER error usually indicates a corrupt stack in memory. This is probably caused by buggy/incompatible drivers or maybe a damaged wireless adaptor. I'm going to go with buggy drivers, since wireless adapter manufacturers are really taking their time with releasing windows 7 drivers, many still only have Vista drivers out. I would start with uninstalling the manufacturers drivers and letting Windows use the default drivers. Normally this is terribly advice, since the official drivers will likely have better performance and features, but the default drivers may be more stable.
[QUOTE=GetOutOfBox;25420503]A BAD_POOL_HEADER error usually indicates a corrupt stack in memory. This is probably caused by buggy/incompatible drivers or maybe a damaged wireless adaptor. I'm going to go with buggy drivers, since wireless adapter manufacturers are really taking their time with releasing windows 7 drivers, many still only have Vista drivers out. I would start with uninstalling the manufacturers drivers and letting Windows use the default drivers. Normally this is terribly advice, since the official drivers will likely have better performance and features, but the default drivers may be more stable.[/QUOTE] This man is correct. [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff557389%28v=VS.85%29.aspx[/url]
Thanks for replying. Ok, how would I go about uninstalling just the manufacturers drivers?
Just go to device manager, and right click the affected device (it'll be under network devices) and click uninstall. Restart your computer, than run windows update if you're using Windows Vista/7, or in the case of XP when the new hardware window appears, get it to search online for the drivers.
Surely If I've uninstalled the drivers for the network adapter I can't connect to the internet to let my PC search online for drivers?
[QUOTE=Helsye;25422723]Surely If I've uninstalled the drivers for the network adapter I can't connect to the internet to let my PC search online for drivers?[/QUOTE] LOL. Indeed you are correct. I have no idea how I missed that. Can you possibly hook up a wired connection using an ethernet cord to your router, for the duration of the wifi driver's installation?
If I could hook up a wired internet connection then I wouldn't have needed to buy a wireless network adapter. Did you read the OP?
[QUOTE=Helsye;25422976]If I could hook up a wired internet connection then I wouldn't have needed to buy a wireless network adapter. Did you read the OP?[/QUOTE] Sorry I missed that part, I have a bunch of different threads open at once. Well a more complicated option would be getting say a laptop or another PC with a wireless connection, hook your PC up to said laptop/desktop then configure Internet Connection Sharing on the other computer.
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