Really funky Wifi issue...

[|tera|]

Hey

I've been running Windows 7 Beta since about it's launch on my Toshiba laptop.

This past Saturday/Friday I was working online and all of a sudden had no connectivity. I couldn't dial up or anything.

Checked my settings, I could connect to the router wirelessly and everything, but just couldn't connect.

The router was reset and settings changed back to how they were. Still no joy.

I decided to uninstall my Wireless Adapter (Atheros 5007EG) in Device Manager and have Windows pick up devices again.

Yep, it reinstalled and I could connect and dial up again.

Problem is. As long as my laptop is on and I'm on the internet/network I can work fine, but as I soon as I reboot/shutdown and startup again, it fails to see the wireless router. So, I uninstall and reinstall again, works everytime.

I've updated to the latest drivers available, but still no joy, it still happens.

Any ideas what to try?

I haven't had any signaficant hardware/software changes recently.

Thanks,
tera

 

[|tera|]

N/m got it sorted

I deleted every network adapter that could be uninstalled in Device Manager. Switched off my wifi on the laptop (via the switch).

I deleted the Wifi and Virtual Wifi filter drivers as well in non plug and play devices and reset TCP/IP stack to default. Rebooted my laptop, it reinstalled everything including NIC and WNIC.

I switched the Wifi on again, via switch after the reinstall, connected, disconnected, rebooted and voila. It still worked.

Yay!

 

[Nameite]

Wow what a journey...WIndows 7 works fine on my lappy...except when i try view videos...my onboard X200M seems to crash and recover every 5 sec...makes watching videos a nightmare

 

[|tera|]

Wow what a journey...WIndows 7 works fine on my lappy...except when i try view videos...my onboard X200M seems to crash and recover every 5 sec...makes watching videos a nightmare

X200M? Is that ATI?

Too lazy to google.

I strongly suggest www.revouninstaller.com

Get the latest version of Revo, uninstall driver in advanced mode (make sure to download lastest release first). Delete all registry/file entries that are left behind and reinstall the driver.

If you can get your hands on drivercleaner.net (it's called that, it's not the site AFAIK) somehow, I'd suggest that first. It allowed me to fix a Vista delay shutdown on an Nvidia card about a year ago, to an instant shutdown after uninstall and driver cleaning.