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Cable Shuts Me Down
Running XP Media Edtion on a Gateway 830 GM, Explorer 7, SP2
I've had DSL for a long time, now that I'm switching over to cable I'm getting rebooted all the way down to the bios screen and getting erros when I log in to Windows. When ever the wireless adapter isn't plugged into the USB port, Windows doesn't reboot. As soon as I plug the adapter into the USB port Windows reboots, sometimes with in one minute of logging in other times maybe within thirty minutes. The Software is Netgear for both the cable modem and the wireless adapter through our cable company. Of course the cable techs. give me 100 different senerios, they have no trouble shooting experince. I've tried rolling back to different dates, nothing changes. Any ideas or solutions from anyone? |
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Hi,
The problem is probably more than one Wireless Network Connection located in the Windows Registry. And also left-over Registry Entries for the previous Adapter in the Windows Registry. Windows Registry Cleaners will not bother to clean the old Keys, because the keys are installed correctly. Reformat and reinstall the operating system on your computer. Make sure to back up your Documents, Favorites, E-mail Store Folder, and Desktop along with the Briefcase Folder, if you use the Briefcase Folder. If you can manually use Regedit to clean out the Windows Registry, I can tell you what to do, otherwise a reformat and reinstall is the only solution that works. Is the Gateway still under a Warranty or Extended Warranty? Do you have a partition image Backup, made before installing anything into the computer, save for the imaging program? -- thecreator "boomersl" wrote in message ... Running XP Media Edtion on a Gateway 830 GM, Explorer 7, SP2 I've had DSL for a long time, now that I'm switching over to cable I'm getting rebooted all the way down to the bios screen and getting erros when I log in to Windows. When ever the wireless adapter isn't plugged into the USB port, Windows doesn't reboot. As soon as I plug the adapter into the USB port Windows reboots, sometimes with in one minute of logging in other times maybe within thirty minutes. The Software is Netgear for both the cable modem and the wireless adapter through our cable company. Of course the cable techs. give me 100 different senerios, they have no trouble shooting experince. I've tried rolling back to different dates, nothing changes. Any ideas or solutions from anyone? |
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boomersl wrote:
Running XP Media Edtion on a Gateway 830 GM, Explorer 7, SP2 I've had DSL for a long time, now that I'm switching over to cable I'm getting rebooted all the way down to the bios screen and getting erros when I log in to Windows. When ever the wireless adapter isn't plugged into the USB port, Windows doesn't reboot. As soon as I plug the adapter into the USB port Windows reboots, sometimes with in one minute of logging in other times maybe within thirty minutes. The Software is Netgear for both the cable modem and the wireless adapter through our cable company. Of course the cable techs. give me 100 different senerios, they have no trouble shooting experince. I've tried rolling back to different dates, nothing changes. Any ideas or solutions from anyone? Do you know whether it is absolutely necessary to use the Cable Company software ? When I first got ADSL, my provider had a PPPOE client, which caused no end of problems. I fixed that, by buying a router that had built-in support for PPPOE. The end result, is my computer connected to the router, doesn't need ISP software. The hardware router takes care of the details. Wireless adapters can be supported by software from the wireless maker, or Wireless Zero Configuration can be used for part of its functioning. Some kind of driver is still required, but not nearly as much bloated software is needed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireles..._Configuration You can look in Event Viewer, to find errors being logged when there is a problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_viewer You can also disable automatic restarts, so you can get a blue screen, and write down the error numbers. That helps, if you otherwise are not able to get information about what is happening. Control Panels:System:Advanced:Startup And Recovery:Settings and untick the "Automatically restart" box. Some pictures here. http://students.washington.edu/rtlibby/bluescreen/ To track down more answers for your problem, searching using the make and model number of the hardware being used, may uncover what you need. The more details you provide in a question, as to exactly how things are hooked together, and what is being used, the better answers you'll get. cable_modem? --- wireless_router? --- --- wireless_usb_adapter? --- computer? HTH, Paul |
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