G1S BSOD with WiFi on

My G1S is relatively stock from newegg. The only additions (besides USB hardware) is 3 gb of RAM. I'm running Vista Home Premium 32 bit. I've added a bunch of the usual software and games, nothing abnormal. My AV is Kaspersky. The problem is I get a BSOD whenever wifi is turned on. With it off via the Wireless Console 2 (red x over the wifi and BT symbols), no BSOD. Unplug the LAN cable, turn on wifi and I connect to my router normally. However, about 20-30 minutes after I get an "IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL" BSOD. I can't find any specific additional incompatibilities, and it happens even when there is no USB hardware connected. Has anybody experienced anything similar? I've uninstalled most ASUS utitlies except for MultiFrame (I can't get it to go away) and Direct Console (only for the clock, that's all I use it for). Any suggestions? Thanks.

As an addition question, I have it connected via HDMI to an LCD flat panel. The LCD's native resolution is around 1280x720. However, when it is set to that resolution, it seems almost zoomed in. I have to dial the resolution out to around 1760x992 to have it be normal sized, i.e. not zoomed in. Any suggestions for this issue? Thanks.

Jim

 

Was the WIFI working before you uninstalled all the Asus software?
Reinstall the ATK0100 drivers.
Minus well keep multiframe and remove it from startup, or you can do a fresh intall of windows and have everything the way you want it.

As for the "zoom in" its called over scanning, find the LCD TV's model number and google it, the resolution of the monitor is important in determining how to output your HDMI. However, I am not sure why you have to use that odd resolution to make it output correctly. I also have a similar issue, when connecting to my LCD.

 

Thanks. I'll try re-installing the drivers and software. No luck finding any info by googling the model number, but I'll do some research into overscanning.

Thanks.

 

Oh well, no luck with re-installing Asus software. I also downloaded and installed the ATK0100 drivers from Asus' website. All was good for about 10 hours, then spontaneous reboots. I've run memtest to see if there was a RAM problem (as well as using the original 1 gb sticks that came with the computer) and no luck. Wifi was working for the first few months I owned it. Something bad happened along the way, somewhere. Anyway it could be a hardware failure of the wifi card? Is there anyway to test this? Thanks.

Jim

 

Have you tried reinstalling the wireless drivers themselves?

 

I went the extreme route and re-installed Vista from the DVD/recovery partition. All was well for an hour or so, then the BSOD's started again. 1st was with an external hard drive connected, so I disconnected that. Next was with an ethernet cable still plugged in, and it Blue Screened as soon as I pulled that out. Finally, as I was writing a response to this post, it BSOD'd with absolutely nothing connected and a bone-stock hard drive. Each time the crash happened after less and less up-time. I'm thinking there may be some sort of hardware failure or heat problem with the 4965 card. The only problem is I'm currently deployed with the USAF for the next 11 months or so, and I really don't want to be without a computer for an indeterminate time so I guess I'll just have to live with it.

As far as re-installing or updating wireless drivers, which ones would they be specifically? I ran the Intel diagnostics that Asus includes and it crashed at the 'Scan' test. Hmmm - any ideas?

On a side note my computer is currently not booting. I'm trying to reinstall from an image I created with Acronis TrueImage and it's not working. I don't want to have to start from scratch but I might have no choice. Thanks for the help and please send any suggestions or past experience my way.

Jim

 

Some ideas:

Well, to eliminate software you could try running the computer on a live Linux distribution like Knoppix for a few hours, see if it crashes. If it does it's clearly hardware or firmware. You could update the BIOS to eliminate (what you can of) the latter, i.e. firmware.

The wireless drivers are I think called Intel ProSet etc. but given you did a fresh Vista install... I don't see how they could be at fault.

About heat: maybe it gathered a lot of dust, how long have you had it? Try cleaning it, there is a cleaning guide on the Info Booth sticky. You should also monitor temperatures (GPU, HDD, CPU) to confirm your suspicions. If one of the CPU and GPU does heat up too much even after the dust cleaning, you can try taking the heatsink off and using a quality thermal paste when putting it back on.

If none of these things helps, seeing that the frequency of the problems is increasing, I see no other option than sending it to ASUS... either now or in 11 months...

 

The Linux distro is a good idea. I have an Ubuntu Live DVD sitting around. I'll give that a shot.

I've only had it since July and try to keep it pretty clean. I'm not in the 'cleanest' part of the world, but since it started about a month after I got it, that may not be the cause. I will give it a thorough once over, though. I'll also try running Linux for a bit too.

Once I finish re-installing everything. My Acronis image didn't work at all - a different problem all together. It successfully copied over to my partition, but would not boot. I thought it might be a corrupted MBR, but even running Acronis' solution didn't work. I don't know enough about that level of work to try many more solutions so I decided to start from scratch. Time to do some more research on imaging. I wonder if Asus' hidden recovery partition has anything to do with it?...

Thanks for the help - I'll keep everyone posted. Still haven't heard if anyone else has a similar problem.

Jim

 

On WinXP there was a recovery console from where you could issue fixmbr and fixboot, and that usually took care of such problems. I don't know about Vista though

 

That may exist on a normal Vista disc, but since Asus (and a lot of other manufacturers) only includes a recovery disc, you don't have that option. Too bad, because that has worked for me before. I tried to use Acronis' solution, but no luck.

 

This may be a Kaspersky pb...did you try another AV?...
for a while i had it, it was the cause of random errors...i did some research and saw that it happens on some config...
i passed to nod32...no BSOD anymore...

maybe it....