could a wifi adapter cause black screen ?

West1990 · 25 Dec 2023 at 18:35

had issues with black screen thought it was psu or gpu as it happened everytime i was loading a game ran stress test o n power and crashes everytime. .

recently removed wifi adapter as i had ethernet aswell .

since then games have been running fine no black screen I will do power test and see probably still crash but why removing WiFi adapter has it seemingly correct this despite having both WiFi and ethernet at the time

DavieJG · 25 Dec 2023 at 21:25

What was the fault code for the crash?

drakulton · 25 Dec 2023 at 22:15

I believe there were windows updates that borked some older drivers. Plugging in an ethernet cable caused my PC to blue screen and restart. Windows update said the drivers were current, but there were newer drivers from realtek that sorted my issue. Your problem although not exactly the same may be related?

IC3 · 26 Dec 2023 at 04:25

BSOD Viewer and check logs.

Philtor · 26 Dec 2023 at 09:21

Does sound driver related if it’s only happening when the adapter is connected and thus loading the driver.

As suggested maybe have a look for a different version from the manufacturers site.