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Wireless Connection Issues with Laptop (BSOD occasionally)
Here are my system specs :
Acer Aspire 5733Z-4851
Windows 7 Home Prem. 64 bit (latest service pack and fully updated)
Broadcom Wired Controller
Broadcom Wireless 802.11N
Belkin 750 DB Wireless N+ router
I started having problems with wireless connections months ago, just started using a cat5 cable at home and didn't do anything about it. Don't know if it started happening after I installed new software or after I installed new driver updates from Acer. I think I might have installed the wrong wireless driver update, had to uninstall it, and then reinstall the Broadcom drivers. Anyway, after I did that, I started getting BSOD crashes after a couple of hours or so of being on wireless on the laptop. Wired works just fine, and that's why I started just using the cat5 line.
So, last week, I decided to try to fix the problem again. Uninstalled and reinstalled the Broadcom wireless drivers a few times, and it is better now, but still not right. Before it crashed and gave a BSOD after a couple of hours. After I un & re-installed the drivers, now I get a day or maybe even 2 on wireless, then it drops the wireless connection and no matter how many times I run the network troubleshooter, windows can't correct the problem.
Now here's the odd thing to me. The computer is finding the wireless network, apparently even Win 7 is finding it, because it says networks available, and you can click on that and it shows the home network and has a connect button - it just won't connect.
Anyone have any idea's what's going on here? I looked around the forums didn't see a post that seemed to address the problem. Thanks