Computer Freezes Since Going Wireless!!

[paulkramer]

Since I set up a wireless network a week or two ago, my PC has started freezing up completely.

This only happens when using IE (6.0) and can happen at any time. It can happen 5 minutes after using the internet, or 5 hours later.

But, once it happens, I have to force the computer all the way down with the main power button. Ctrl+Alt+Del won't do a damn thing, nor will anything else. The cursor won't even move.

It's a 6 month old HP Pavilion, a1644x, XP Pro, V. 2002, SP 2, all updates (if Windows Live OneCare is actually doing its job, that's another mess in itself).

I would probably blame WLOC, but that software was installed months ago, and this just started happening after going wireless. Seems too coincidental.

I tried running sfc / scannow, but the window just flashes and disappears. Which is the current behavior of WLOC as well.

Also downloaded and ran Adaware, which found a lot of "undesirable" cookies and deleted them, but nothing major.

Anyone ever heard of this problem?

Thanks in advance.

[jsmack79]

I'm not sure if this will help you at all.... but may be worth trying.

I recently went wireless on my new pc with a netgear wireless pci card. I started getting the blue screen of death due to some IRQ errors. I started fudging around with windows' settings and then my computer would just freeze. I uninstalled the wireless card, put in a D-Link and haven't had the problem since.

It was something about the card. I've since put a D-Link card in my computer and everything is running great.

Do you have access to another wireless network device? Remove the old one and try a new card.

No one could offer me a fix as to why my Netgear was tossing out IRQ errors... but I know it fixed the problem when I got rid of the card.