wireless lan causes vista bluescreen

[Perris Calderon]

Still seems strange to me that the XP driver would fix this problem.

I'm gonna give this new driver a shot, if that doesn't don the trick I'll try the xp driver

 

[American Zombie]

What is the version of this new driver?

 

[Perris Calderon]

What is the version of this new driver?

4.170.25.17

date, 10/12/07

 

[Perris Calderon]

three days and no blue screen yet, this feels like it's gonna do the trick but there were times I went for a couple of weeks without getting one

will repoty back in a week or two of if I get the blue screen again

*wishes self luck*

 

[Dark Atheist]

dare you install Vista SP1 when it comes out - might say the drive you have is prolematic and wont let you install it anyway

 

[Perris Calderon]

dare you install Vista SP1 when it comes out - might say the drive you have is prolematic and wont let you install it anyway

well, as always I'm gonna wait a month or so before I allow it on my box

 

[Perris Calderon]

nope, new driver didn't help, I have a new dump file

 

[Perris Calderon]

second blue screen tonight

 

[American Zombie]

Both dumps point to the broadcom driver.

Time to try the XP one just for kicks?

 

[Perris Calderon]

Both dumps point to the broadcom driver.

Time to try the XP one just for kicks?

ya, gonna try it, is there a link?

 

[Perris Calderon]

ya, gonna try it, is there a link?

gonna try the driver on this page

 

[Perris Calderon]

well, I am using the new driver right now, feels exactly the same as the old driver

will now give this one a few weeks or a blue screen before I report back on this thread

 

[Perris Calderon]

well, I am using the new driver right now, feels exactly the same as the old driver

will now give this one a few weeks or a blue screen before I report back on this thread

edit

even though I installed this driver the os is still looking at the vista driver not this one

I tried uninstalling the vista driver first but it insists on re installing the driver before I get a chance to install this one

when browsing for browsers the os refuses to acknowledge this is even a driver and will not install it

 

[Dark Atheist]

look in c:\windows\inf
for oemxx.inf (xx being a number) open each one and it should tell you at the top what its for, find the broadcom one and delete it, then try to install the other driver

 

[Perris Calderon]

look in c:\windows\inf
for oemxx.inf (xx being a number) open each one and it should tell you at the top what its for, find the broadcom one and delete it, then try to install the other driver

I deleted all versions of the original driver and the os refuses to let me direct where to get this xp driver, even when I tell it which file to get, it simply says the driver is up to date, it get's it's own from I guess protected storage

this driver version is 4.102.15.61

is that an xp driver or vista?

 

[Perris Calderon]

look in c:\windows\inf
for oemxx.inf (xx being a number) open each one and it should tell you at the top what its for, find the broadcom one and delete it, then try to install the other driver

hehe...I almost edited your post thinking it was mine

anyway, I did a search and this is indeed the xp driver, though it's also suupposed to work on vista, but this is what they have for xp since 2006

gonna now wait and see if I blue screen

thanx for the help carpo

 

[Perris Calderon]

hehe...I almost edited your post thinking it was mine

anyway, I did a search and this is indeed the xp driver, though it's also suupposed to work on vista, but this is what they have for xp since 2006

gonna now wait and see if I blue screen

thanx for the help carpo

nope, this driver causes total freeze, no blue screen, going back to the latest driver

 

[Dark Atheist]

did you buy this pc/laptop with vista pre installed ?

 

[Perris Calderon]

did you buy this pc/laptop with vista pre installed ?

ya, pre installed

 

[Dark Atheist]

and its under 12 months old ? if so they are under contract to replace the faulty goods no matter how many times this happens, also i would put it to them that maybe its a design fault