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    m17x GPU wireless driver issue

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by hoofhearted, Dec 28, 2009.

  1. hoofhearted

    hoofhearted Notebook Evangelist

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    I just bought one of them new OCZ SSD drives (128G) from newegg and decided to setup my m17x from scratch.

    I used the two DVDs that came with the system (Windows7 64 bit home premium and the resource DVD with the Win7 drivers).

    After installing the OS the all the drivers, my wireless stopped working (it actually worked intermittently, but mostly it didn't work).

    I could not figure any settings out to get the wireless to work. It would show the list on my wireless spots, but when I tried to connect to my main share drive (\\10.0.2.200), it gave me a an error "Windows could not connect" and there was a hex code error message (0x8000....) don't remember the exact, but from googling it, was too general to be useful.

    I tried uninstalling and reinstalling several drivers including: chipset, osd (since there is a button to turn on and off the wireless), broadcom (seems that this is delivered with window - thought maybe the one with windows was better). Got really frustrated.

    Anyway, I reformated and started again with just the delivered wireless. Rebooted several times, and tested and all worked well. Next, I did the drivers one by one. First I did the chipset. Did my reboot test. All was well, then I installed the Windows updates. All was well. Then I did the Optional windows update for broadcom card. Rebooted and all was well. Finally, I installed the GPU driver (the one one the CD: E:\drivers\Windows7\video\nvidia\NVIDIA_GEFORCE-GTX-W7_64_R236968-R236973.exe) and it did it! I had no network access. Rebooted and tried several times. Finally, I uninstalled the Nvidia (not the physx, just the nvidia driver - it gave a radio button with 3 choices, I picked the most complete uninstall) and my wireless started working perfectly again.

    I looked all through the nvidia cp for any kind of power setting for the wlan, but could find no such options. Any clue as to why this is happeneing?

    Do I need to find an updated driver or something?
     
    hoofhearted, Dec 28, 2009
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  3. hoofhearted

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    Thanks! Worked great!
     
    hoofhearted, Dec 28, 2009
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    Happy to help you out. :D

    Al credits go to Glmzo..
     
    Vitotherm, Dec 28, 2009
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