If you ment firmware in some other context please do elaborate.įirmware in the conventional sense: that being the code installed in some onboard memory chip that can still be modified. he's also the reason I can't RMA it should I need to due to his excitement over finding some extraordinarily interesting box to play with/destroy along with the receipt I had in said box. remember how I said my kid was the reason for the last one breaking.
but I found the drivers amidst the install extraction for each version of their driver and tried that way as well after canceling the install so I didn't get burdened with that poor excuse for excrement.Īside from the fact that I tried it on another computer and it worked as one would expect. it's a bit trickier to install the driver without their bundled piece of. their drivers force its install even though you can download their supposedly "standalone" driver which should come without the CRAP software.
if so I have tried both with and without their POS software "netgear genie".
as to the firmware do you mean their software which I would call anything but firm?. I did indeed check to see if it has the same problem on a different computer. I appreciate any help you guys can give me. CROSSHAIR (Socket AM2 ) Constant 40☌ġ49GB Seagate ST3160812A ATA Device (PATA)Ĥ66GB Seagate ST350082 0AS SCSI Disk Device (ATA) I have reached the limits of my tech/software knowledge and dont know if this is an unresolvable problem untill netgear gets off their lazy butts to fix this or if Im just missing something.ĪMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition Constant 43☌Ĩ.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 373MHz (5-5-5-15) - 4x2Gb Gskill PC2-6400 (400Mhz)ĪSUSTeK Computer INC. I have tried updating to each of the 4 drivers available from netgear for their adapter with a fresh uninstall/restart install/restart for each one. When disconnected from a network my cpu load stays right where it should at 0-5% with NT Kernel at 0. When connected at idle, NT Kernel / System process spikes to 30-40%, when it should be sitting quietly at 0 like it used to on the old adapter with 0-5% cpu load at idle. Since then however I have noticed that my computer is suffering from unusually high load levels at idle, and from what little experience I have in the tech field, I have narrowed the culprit down to said WiFi Adapter. Upon installation I had a few issues with packet loss but have since gotten those sorted out. I just bought a new WiFi Adapter due to my old one having juice spilled on it courtesy of my child.