Geek assistance part THREE, separate problem
Wednesday, 3 January 2007 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taimatsuOk, so it's AVG causing the BSOD, and tomorrow I will work out which of the six drivers it is, and reinstall things and stuff. Thank you all for your help and advice.
However! In my computer-fiddling, I made the grave error of updating the driver for my Netgear wireless card, via the Windows website, and it DOESN'T WORK ANY MORE, which *really* pisses me off. What happens is that when I start up all is well, but the icon for the driver utility software which is usually in the system tray, and turns green when it connects to the network, is not there. I can start the utility from the Start menu, and the icon appears (in red, not green) and the program comes up, telling me it's 'Associating...' and then 'Scanning...' but then it disappears and closes itself down after about ten or twenty seconds. It just exits, over and over. I found the Windows 'driver rollback' feature, but the previous driver has not been backed up, so I can't use it.
It worked before! Why would updating it make it fail? I am so cross! Anyone got any ideas? All I can think of is to uninstall it entirely and then make Windows find it again and download the driver from the web. But presumably it would install the same updated driver...
However! In my computer-fiddling, I made the grave error of updating the driver for my Netgear wireless card, via the Windows website, and it DOESN'T WORK ANY MORE, which *really* pisses me off. What happens is that when I start up all is well, but the icon for the driver utility software which is usually in the system tray, and turns green when it connects to the network, is not there. I can start the utility from the Start menu, and the icon appears (in red, not green) and the program comes up, telling me it's 'Associating...' and then 'Scanning...' but then it disappears and closes itself down after about ten or twenty seconds. It just exits, over and over. I found the Windows 'driver rollback' feature, but the previous driver has not been backed up, so I can't use it.
It worked before! Why would updating it make it fail? I am so cross! Anyone got any ideas? All I can think of is to uninstall it entirely and then make Windows find it again and download the driver from the web. But presumably it would install the same updated driver...
