Bad Pool Caller driving me insane

[TW]Fox said:
Gets weirder.

Audigy totally gone now - removed it and its sat on the desk. No BSOD's but...

My internet connection is incredibly unstable. The Wifi disconnects and reconnects frequently and when it is connected, it's so painfully slow its unusable. My laptop however, sat on the same desk, connected via wireless to the same router, is working perfectly.

Just connected via a wire now.. and internet access is perfect.

Getting bored, might just format. Although a format hasn't fixed the BSOD's before..
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Might be worth a reinstall of the wireless now, seeing as the audigy drivers are long gone. Might be the two of them playing silly beggers.
 
I'm still having problems and I dont know what to do next.

I formatted the machine last night. I now have a completely clean, new Windows installation. I've installed absolutely nothing bar the drivers for my Linksys Wireless card, and the Realtek Audio drivers along with chipset and video drivers. Thats it. There is nothing else at all on the system.

Whilst I've not had a BSOD, I'm getting truely bizarre internet performance. At times it's like being on a saturated 56k modem link - you load a page and half of it loads but the rest takes an AGE to appear. You click a link, it sits there thinking about it for literally 3-4 minutes before actually loading. Half the time I expect it to time out. Sometimes it actually does. Sometimes, however, it's perfect, and like lightning.

All this would point to problems with my network but sitting right on the desk next to my keyboard is my laptop - and this works absolutely perfectly. I've even done tests when the problem happens.

For example, just now, I loaded the OcUK forums and clicked General Discussion. In the time taken to actually load the GD forums, I was able to load the forums, click GD, and read 3-4 threads on the Laptop. They are both connected to the same wireless network, infact the Laptop is further from the router (by perhaps 20cm but you get the point).

It just seems like odd things are happening to PCI devices on my PC and I'm not sure where to troubleshoot from here.
 
[TW]Fox said:
I'm still having problems and I dont know what to do next.

I formatted the machine last night. I now have a completely clean, new Windows installation. I've installed absolutely nothing bar the drivers for my Linksys Wireless card, and the Realtek Audio drivers along with chipset and video drivers. Thats it. There is nothing else at all on the system.

Whilst I've not had a BSOD, I'm getting truely bizarre internet performance. At times it's like being on a saturated 56k modem link - you load a page and half of it loads but the rest takes an AGE to appear. You click a link, it sits there thinking about it for literally 3-4 minutes before actually loading. Half the time I expect it to time out. Sometimes it actually does. Sometimes, however, it's perfect, and like lightning.

All this would point to problems with my network but sitting right on the desk next to my keyboard is my laptop - and this works absolutely perfectly. I've even done tests when the problem happens.

For example, just now, I loaded the OcUK forums and clicked General Discussion. In the time taken to actually load the GD forums, I was able to load the forums, click GD, and read 3-4 threads on the Laptop. They are both connected to the same wireless network, infact the Laptop is further from the router (by perhaps 20cm but you get the point).

It just seems like odd things are happening to PCI devices on my PC and I'm not sure where to troubleshoot from here.
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Can you not remove the PCI card and bring the router into the room and use the Ethernet connection to see if it is down to the card.

Also can you not borrow a wireless USB stick and give that a go?
 
[TW]Fox said:
I'm still having problems and I dont know what to do next.

I formatted the machine last night. I now have a completely clean, new Windows installation. I've installed absolutely nothing bar the drivers for my Linksys Wireless card, and the Realtek Audio drivers along with chipset and video drivers. Thats it. There is nothing else at all on the system.

Whilst I've not had a BSOD, I'm getting truely bizarre internet performance. At times it's like being on a saturated 56k modem link - you load a page and half of it loads but the rest takes an AGE to appear. You click a link, it sits there thinking about it for literally 3-4 minutes before actually loading. Half the time I expect it to time out. Sometimes it actually does. Sometimes, however, it's perfect, and like lightning.

All this would point to problems with my network but sitting right on the desk next to my keyboard is my laptop - and this works absolutely perfectly. I've even done tests when the problem happens.

For example, just now, I loaded the OcUK forums and clicked General Discussion. In the time taken to actually load the GD forums, I was able to load the forums, click GD, and read 3-4 threads on the Laptop. They are both connected to the same wireless network, infact the Laptop is further from the router (by perhaps 20cm but you get the point).

It just seems like odd things are happening to PCI devices on my PC and I'm not sure where to troubleshoot from here.
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Any chance of getting your hands on another PCI Wireless card for testing?

What about changing the PCI slot it's in?
 
Just put a different wireless card into the machine in a different slot, after uninstalling and removing the old wireless card.

The problem remains - sporadic periods of very slow internet performance, whilst at the same time, the laptop is perfect.

How can I test my PCI Bus for faults? How would I ever get a retailer to agree and replace it anyway even if it was at fault?
 
havent read the whole thread,

are you overclocked, in fact even if your not.

try going into your bios and locking the pci to 66mhz and the pci-e bus to 100mhz.

if the options are there.


If the pci bus lock isnt there but the pci-e one is, lock that at 100 anyways.

also there is another option, canna remembe the exact name, but its pci related and defaults to 32 normally, set that to 64. improves stability.
 
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