The error reported on the blue screen of death would always be page fault in nonpaged area. Interestingly, the system would be fine for months and then suddenly crash a few times per day - always when using Deluge, a torrent client. As a side note, for comparison, I have an ASUS PCE-AC68 AC1900 in my desktop and have no issues with WiFi connection from that computer in my room.Īfter some testing, it turned out that downloading a torrent with Deluge would reliably crash the system within an hour.ĭebugging the crash minidump with Windows Debugger (WinDBG), it turned out the driver bcmwl63a was likely at fault. This driver is developed by Broadcom for 802.11 wireless network adapters. I think it is not the wifi card issue, but more like the antenna of the laptop. The driver was being used for my ASUS PCE-AC68 network adapter.

I was using version 7.35.338.0 of the Broadcom drivers for the adapter, supplied through the ASUS product utility version 2.1.1.5 that is available on the ASUS support website. Sierra EM7355 Not working on Lenovo P50 this erorr '1802: Unauthorized network card is plugged in - Power off and remove the network card. The issue can be fixed by upgrading to version 7.35.351.0 of the Broadcom drivers, which ASUS supplies in version 2.1.4.3 of their utility. ' I assume youre getting that message printed by the BIOS itself, so there is no point in attempting to install any Windows drivers from anywhere, as the system is not even booting. The issue can likely also be fixed by downgrading to version 6.30.223.228 (utility version 2.0.8.8), but I have not tested this. See this thread for more information.įirst uninstall the old driver through Windows Device Manger (and uninstall the utility through the Control Panel, if installed). Then, instead of installing the new utility, I would recommend installing only the new driver (supplied in the same zip-file as the utility).

This can be done manually in Device Manager by updating driver software for the PCE-AC68. Note that after uninstalling the old drivers, the adapter might show up as an unrecognized device, so be sure to check that if the PCE-AC68 is no longer present in the device list.

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