[Help] Computer freezes upon boot up

Liquiduk · 11 Sep 2012 at 18:41

Hi chaps,

This one has stumped me. I had just received my TP-link 150mbps PCI-e wireless card (Tl-wn781nd) and plugged it all up fine first time and inserted the small driver disk, the driver download got about 2/3 of the way through and froze. Now whenever I turn my machine on with the wireless card plugged in my pc freezes as I get to the log in screen (windows7). when I take out the wireless card my pc boots perfectly.

Any suggestions? Trying to locate these damn drivers to remove them but can't find them anywhere, please help!

Thanks

Max

Mei · 11 Sep 2012 at 18:43

hm system restore function in windows not helping?
maybe could try in device manager see if you can get at the driver that way

Gav_881 · 11 Sep 2012 at 21:11

I would check the ram, boot with one stick at a time

Nickolp1974 · 11 Sep 2012 at 22:40

Remove card and boot into safe mode and install drivers, reinstall card and, boot into windows

Liquiduk · 12 Sep 2012 at 08:40

Here is the current update -

I had removed the card and rolled back my machine a few days to get rid of the drivers. It now boots up fine with the card in as long as I don't install the drivers from the disk which is fine.

I go to the TP-Link drivers page to find the drivers and try to install them and the problem I am now getting is the drivers try to find my installed wireless card but cannot find the wireless card what so ever. Any advice?