Hello Everyone
I have 2 USB wireless adapters, one is Alfa AWUS036H with Realtek chipset RTL8187L and the other is AWUS036NHR Realtek RTL8188RU Both adaptors are giving me hard time on a windows 7 64 bit installation whenever I try to enable the Microsoft Virtual Wi-Fi Miniport Adaptor on any of them. Any attempts to update or fiddle with the drivers on the Virtual adapter will immediately BSOD the system. I have installed and uninstalled the drivers and ccleaned after reboot at least 20 times but to no use. I have also tried several versions of drivers including the ones from Alfa (manufacturer) and the newest ones from Realtek.
Both adapters work fine in another windows 7 64 bit computer, which leads me to believe that they are conflicting with other drivers or devices installed in my computer and I have no idea how to find out. Unfortunately formatting the computer is not an option right now.
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Thinkpad T410 with Windows 7 64 bit
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Trying to figure out what the conflict is will require more work than starting from scratch and doing things one by one. What you need to do is get a memory dump. You will have to find out the interrupt number assigned to each device in your system. The BIOS will assign from 1-13 and Windows will assigned from 14 and on. You need to consider the drivers for the devices that share the same interrupt number as your wireless card. This is a good starting point for figuring out the conflict.
A quick Google search should give you the necessary free tools to examine memory dumps. -
Thanks metril for pointing out the way, someone analyzed the dump for me and found out that amppal.sys, Intel® Centrino® Bluetooth 3.0 + High Speed Virtual Adapter is the reason why i was getting the BSODs, so I removed the drivers and everything is working just fine now
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Microsoft Virtual Wi-Fi Miniport Adaptor Problems
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Thermodynamics, Dec 11, 2011.