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    Wireless is ... overheating?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by jimmy0x52, May 10, 2006.

  1. jimmy0x52

    jimmy0x52 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi gang,

    I posted this in the Lenovo section too, but I thought it should be here as well.

    So I have a Lenovo N100 about a week old or so and I'm having a very weird issue.

    When I was playing F.E.A.R. a couple days ago, the connection just dropped after about 30-45 minutes of playing. When I came out to windows, and tried to open the wireless connection (from the little icon in the task bar, to see if it had dropped) I could not double-click on it to open it. It would not open. Right-click was also unresponsive. When you moused over it, though, it still showed connected although apps like AIM and FireFox also couldn't connect.

    Last night I had similar symptoms using BitTorrent. It would download for about 20-30 minutes, and then the connection would just flat drop.

    The only thing that seems to fix the problem is a reboot of the machine.

    When I propped the front of the laptop up on my watch, giving more airflow to the bottom, it seemed to go a bit longer, but still it would eventually drop out.

    I'm running on 802.11g with WPAv1 @ 54mbps. I'm thinking this may be the card overheating and shutting down but really I don't know what the heck it is.

    Has anyone experienced anything similar with this noteboook or with the Intel 3945ABG component before? Should I be sending this back to Lenovo (I sure hope not, I finally got everything installed).

    --Jimmy
     
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    Jimmy,

    You might want to try and find the latest drivers for your wireless card. There was a similar problem with the Intel 2200B/G wireless card, which you just update to the latest driver and it stops it from dropping the signal.

    I hope this helps. :)
     
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    Does that card drop the signal and prevent you from accessing it until a reboot?

    I just updated to 10.1.1.13 from the website (driver actually says 10.1.1.3 in the properties window). I was at 10.1.0.9 before.

    We'll see how that works tonight.
     
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    Yes, the reason being that the card cycles on reboot. Those drivers should have a text file to tell you what issues it resolved. Let me know if this works, if not, PM me your PC specs and which wireless card it is and I will try and find you a fix.

    Hope that works! :p
     
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    The docs say that this issue is fixed in the 9.0.4.13 drivers (which I assume are for that other card) but not for the 10.1.1.3 drivers - it only fixes a signal strength "display" issue when connected to an ad-hoc network - I'm using the latest D-Link wireless router as my AP.

    We'll see what happens.
     
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