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    Stock Wi-fi card to Intel wifi 6200 system freezes

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by bittercold, Dec 27, 2010.

  1. GNandGS

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    That is unfortunate. Was hoping for the magic pill that fixed it all! :)
     
  2. Rjdeli

    Rjdeli Notebook Geek

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    Basically same conclusion I came up with days ago a big ???question mark! lol appreciate your input man for a 30 dollar adapter I think we all have spent too much time working on it... you are not even using a mllx so the problem lies in what similarities the notebooks your using and the mllx??... I currently have the 6200 in a lattitude E6410 and it has not froze up a single time... and my mllx has a 1501 hasn't froze up either.. so as far as I am concerned its a dead end unless someone comes up with a firmware fix..
     
  3. GNandGS

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    I ordered overseas so it was a little higher cost to me and a slightly longer wait. Not to mention Im reduced to using a USB adaptor when wireless. SUCKS. Actually the USB dongle is great. Just big. To be fair I can enable the on-board but there is no telling when it will freeze up. Using LAN for work so at least no issue there.

    Might try swapping to my old 3945ABG but nervous as for some reason on this particular laptop the ant wires hold very tight and tries to pull the contacts off the board.

    If I was 100% certain no issues I would entertain other cards (Bigfoot). But with ordering/shipping I'm not eager as I based 6200 series off the mostly + reviews. If could find locally with a good return policy then I would be all about experimenting.
     
  4. caliban25

    caliban25 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sorry for digging up an old thread, but in case anyones interested :
    I replaced the 1520 in my m11x r1 with a 6200 hoping it would stop freeze
    under heavy network traffic. It did not, it actually got worse.
    I tried different drivers and all that with no luck. Finally I disabled the "n" functionality for the 6200 in the device manager and since then it works like a charm. Only in 54 at max ofc, but at least stable.
    Maybe that option is available in the device manager settings for the 1520 as well, i'm too lazy to put it back and try it.
    it's not a fix, I consider it a workaround, but hey..
    Oh, btw, my router is a wndr3700, both bands active.
     
  5. GNandGS

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    playing with ver14 now...


    been more than 5hrs without a freeze. testing continues...

    UPDATE: locked up a few minutes ago. So NOT fixed using ver14 driver. I like the earlier theory that its the ICS boards that do not play well with the 6200.
     
  6. miamia

    miamia Newbie

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    hi guys, after days of headache drivers 13.0.0.107 definitely fixed my problems with freeze.

    so bad news - lockup occurs again so it didn't fixed it. :/
     
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    firejackal Newbie

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    I don't mean to revive an old topic, but I wanted to put an update to this on here.

    I ended up buying this card and deciding to put it into another laptop, a Acer Aspire, and guess what? Still the random freezes. After a few reboots, it gets worse, then windows 7 fails to load. Which usually that means a driver issue. I even tried installing the latest version.

    So the bad news is that it's still happening, the good news is it's not a M11x related issue.
     
  8. GNandGS

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    There might still be something problem systems have in common. Hard to say. Some theories:

    Bad run of hardware (or eval ver?)
    ICS
    Driver compatibility with ___________

    I do not buy driver as a FAULT even if driver changes could fix it. I suspect its something at the hardware level or application level that is giving problems that the intel just does not play nice with.

    edit: using bigfoot for some time now, no issues (but not using their software)
     
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