Hi gang,
I posted this in the Lenovo section too, but I thought it should be here as well.
So I have a Lenovo N100 about a week old or so and I'm having a very weird issue.
When I was playing F.E.A.R. a couple days ago, the connection just dropped after about 30-45 minutes of playing. When I came out to windows, and tried to open the wireless connection (from the little icon in the task bar, to see if it had dropped) I could not double-click on it to open it. It would not open. Right-click was also unresponsive. When you moused over it, though, it still showed connected although apps like AIM and FireFox also couldn't connect.
Last night I had similar symptoms using BitTorrent. It would download for about 20-30 minutes, and then the connection would just flat drop.
The only thing that seems to fix the problem is a reboot of the machine.
When I propped the front of the laptop up on my watch, giving more airflow to the bottom, it seemed to go a bit longer, but still it would eventually drop out.
I'm running on 802.11g with WPAv1 @ 54mbps. I'm thinking this may be the card overheating and shutting down but really I don't know what the heck it is.
Has anyone experienced anything similar with this noteboook or with the Intel 3945ABG component before? Should I be sending this back to Lenovo (I sure hope not, I finally got everything installed).
--Jimmy
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USAFdude02 NBR Reviewer & Deity NBR Reviewer
Jimmy,
You might want to try and find the latest drivers for your wireless card. There was a similar problem with the Intel 2200B/G wireless card, which you just update to the latest driver and it stops it from dropping the signal.
I hope this helps. -
Does that card drop the signal and prevent you from accessing it until a reboot?
I just updated to 10.1.1.13 from the website (driver actually says 10.1.1.3 in the properties window). I was at 10.1.0.9 before.
We'll see how that works tonight. -
USAFdude02 NBR Reviewer & Deity NBR Reviewer
Hope that works! -
The docs say that this issue is fixed in the 9.0.4.13 drivers (which I assume are for that other card) but not for the 10.1.1.3 drivers - it only fixes a signal strength "display" issue when connected to an ad-hoc network - I'm using the latest D-Link wireless router as my AP.
We'll see what happens.
Wireless is ... overheating?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by jimmy0x52, May 10, 2006.