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USB Wireless adaptor crashes XP

Author
8 Apr 2005 6:40 AM
rubme001
Hello, members and moderators! I purchased two Encore ENUWI-B-SICA 802.11B Pensize adaptors http://www.encore-usa.com/product.php?id=105&lang= for my two PCs with Windows XP_PE installed, and these little things perform very nicely and fast. The only thing that surprises me is that after a while, say about two or three hours of surfing the Web, suddenly the PC in turn stops working and Windows shows a blue screen stating that it has shut off the system in order to avoid further damages to it. Besides, the cause is reported to be a "bad page call" or something like that plus some parameters unknown to me. It also recommends that if it is the first time it happened, I should restart the machine; otherwise, I should check the hardware installed, etc., so I have to turn off and restart the machine in order to resume my navigations.. and there! it happens again. This phenomenom occurs exactly in both PCs which incidently have different motherboards, one is a Compaq 5WV233 and the other one is a PCCHIPS M810LMR, both in perfect operating conditions. Previous to this, I used to have two Wireless PCI cards of different makes installed in both of my PCs and which worked flawlessly for hours and hours on end without any problem whatsoever but I had to give them to my son, and now that I wanted to switch to these little gems, this problem has arisen. Does any one of the members of this forum have any idea about what sort of conflict is happening between this USB adaptor and my PCs and if there is any solution to that? I'd hate to throw them away! Thank you very much in advance for any comment/advice that you may want to add here. Ruben. -- rubme001

Author
8 Apr 2005 11:10 AM
Airhead
"rubme001" <rubme001.1n5q0a@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello, members and moderators!
>
> I purchased two Encore ENUWI-B-SICA 802.11B Pensize adaptors
>
> http://www.encore-usa.com/product.php?id=105&lang=
>
> for my two PCs with Windows XP_PE installed, and these little things
> perform very nicely and fast. The only thing that surprises me is
that
> after a while, say about two or three hours of surfing the Web,
> suddenly
> the PC in turn stops working and Windows shows a blue screen stating
> that it has shut off the system in order to avoid further damages to
> it.
> Besides, the cause is reported to be a "bad page call" or something
> like that plus some parameters unknown to me. It also recommends
> that if it is the first time it happened, I should restart the
machine;
> otherwise, I should check the hardware installed, etc., so I have to
> turn off and restart the machine in order to resume my navigations..
> and there! it happens again.
>
> This phenomenom occurs exactly in both PCs which incidently have
> different motherboards, one is a Compaq 5WV233 and the other one
> is a PCCHIPS M810LMR, both in perfect operating conditions.
>
> Previous to this, I used to have two Wireless PCI cards of different
> makes installed in both of my PCs and which worked flawlessly for
> hours and hours on end without any problem whatsoever but I had
> to give them to my son, and now that I wanted to switch to these
> little gems, this problem has arisen.
>
> Does any one of the members of this forum have any idea about what
> sort of conflict is happening between this USB adaptor and my PCs
and
> if there is any solution to that? I'd hate to throw them away!
>
> Thank you very much in advance for any comment/advice that you
> may want to add here.

Not sure, but I have the same problem with a USB mouse and Win2000.
Seems I read that there were some USB fixes for XP in SP2 but I dont
remember exactly what they were for. Are you runing SP2?
Author
8 Apr 2005 2:09 PM
Ed Williams
I have found that if a USB adapter fits loose. If it looses it connection
for a moment will do this.

"rubme001" <rubme001.1n5q0a@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello, members and moderators!
>
> I purchased two Encore ENUWI-B-SICA 802.11B Pensize adaptors
>
> http://www.encore-usa.com/product.php?id=105&lang=
>
> for my two PCs with Windows XP_PE installed, and these little things
> perform very nicely and fast. The only thing that surprises me is that
> after a while, say about two or three hours of surfing the Web,
> suddenly
> the PC in turn stops working and Windows shows a blue screen stating
> that it has shut off the system in order to avoid further damages to
> it.
> Besides, the cause is reported to be a "bad page call" or something
> like that plus some parameters unknown to me. It also recommends
> that if it is the first time it happened, I should restart the machine;
> otherwise, I should check the hardware installed, etc., so I have to
> turn off and restart the machine in order to resume my navigations..
> and there! it happens again.
>
> This phenomenom occurs exactly in both PCs which incidently have
> different motherboards, one is a Compaq 5WV233 and the other one
> is a PCCHIPS M810LMR, both in perfect operating conditions.
>
> Previous to this, I used to have two Wireless PCI cards of different
> makes installed in both of my PCs and which worked flawlessly for
> hours and hours on end without any problem whatsoever but I had
> to give them to my son, and now that I wanted to switch to these
> little gems, this problem has arisen.
>
> Does any one of the members of this forum have any idea about what
> sort of conflict is happening between this USB adaptor and my PCs and
> if there is any solution to that? I'd hate to throw them away!
>
> Thank you very much in advance for any comment/advice that you
> may want to add here.
>
> Ruben.
>
>
> --
> rubme001