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Gateway M-1617 won't connect to wireless / blue screens

post #1 of 7
12/25/07 at 4:44pm
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hi everyone,

i'm on my second gateway m-1617 (returned the first one for a dead pixel). my problem is this....

i was at a buddies house and connected to his wireless network. everything worked fine. then i get disconnected and the computer is not seeing any networks (not his nor his neighbors). then i get blue screened and my computer reboots. this happens off and on. sometime i'll be connected for a few minutes then get blue screened.

whats strange is i have no issues at all at my parents house. i've been online for the past 24 hours without a single problem.

here's the wireless specs:
Marvell Topdog 802.11n Wireless (EC85)
Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) #2

any ideas? i would like to resolve this without having to return a second notebook
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post #2 of 7
12/25/07 at 8:09pm
have u tried to 1st compare the configuration set up of ur parent's wifi and ur friend's wifi? it will be hard pressed to force a 2nd return if it worked at one location and not the other

cheers ...
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post #3 of 7
12/25/07 at 8:46pm
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have u tried to 1st compare the configuration set up of ur parent's wifi and ur friend's wifi? it will be hard pressed to force a 2nd return if it worked at one location and not the other

cheers ...

not yet, i'm gonna copy down my settings and then compare to his. hopefully tommorrow
thanks for the reply
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post #4 of 7
12/25/07 at 8:47pm
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also, i'm running microsoft vista 32bit
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post #5 of 7
12/26/07 at 5:31pm
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also, i'm running microsoft vista 32bit
might be a bit of a small issue here. verify the router vista compatibility, update the firmware if present/possible

cheers ...
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post #6 of 7
12/28/07 at 9:59am
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post
might be a bit of a small issue here. verify the router vista compatibility, update the firmware if present/possible

cheers ...
I have the same laptop and similar issues. I tred changing the channel the router broadcasts on to channel 6. It seemed to work last night but I'm not sure that was the issue. I also changed some setings in the McAfee virus program. The wireless seems to work sometimes and not others. Last night it blue screened, and I had to take the battery out to reboot.
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post #7 of 7
12/29/07 at 9:01am
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I have the same laptop and similar issues. I tred changing the channel the router broadcasts on to channel 6. It seemed to work last night but I'm not sure that was the issue. I also changed some setings in the McAfee virus program. The wireless seems to work sometimes and not others. Last night it blue screened, and I had to take the battery out to reboot.
i had load of issues with McAfee and Vista in the connections and file sharing, finally just put Afee asides and used Avast, zero issue since then. In between I have added comodo firewall (finally working with vista)

cheers ...
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