The topic kinda says it all, but I'll explain what's going on.
I recently upgraded to Windows XP. Yay. But this thing has not been very stable at all... for the first couple of weeks it would crash about once a day, and the error report thingy had no clue what the problem was. The crash logs in Event Viewer reported that each crash had the EXACT same error code, letter-for-letter. I'm not 100% sure, but I think each time it crashed, I was downloading something. Eventually that problem died down and hasn't happened again for another two weeks.
I also noticed that about once every hour and a half or so, I would lose my server connections to IRC, MUCK, AIM, everything. I could reconnect after about two seconds with no problems, but naturally this was driving me insane.
All the while, I was using the native drivers built into XP for my Linksys LNE100TX NIC card.
After being advised to do so from a friend, I went to Linksys' website to get new drivers for my NIC card, just in case. I never COULD find XP drivers. It gave instructions on how to install XP drivers, but whenever I download a driver set (with drivers for all flavors of Windows, Linux, etc), there was never XP drivers. I figure I'd try putting in the Win2K drivers just to see how it'd work.
Well, the latter problem went away. I was able to stay connected the entire day and not lose my connection once. BUT a little while ago this computer blue-screened (I disabled auto-restart). I restarted the machine, then Windows came up saying there was some kind of device driver conflict, though it couldn't tell me what was having the conflict.
Considering that the drivers for my NIC are the only ones I've tinkered with, and the first problem I mentioned, I think my NIC is at fault.
I later went to Microsoft's XP compatibility website and I didn't find ANY Linksys NICs listed there...
Is my NIC just not XP compatible?
EDIT: I'm looking some more at the XP compatibility website, and according to the listings, the v5 revision of the card is XP compatible. The v4 card (what I'm using) is not even listed. Greeeeeat...
I recently upgraded to Windows XP. Yay. But this thing has not been very stable at all... for the first couple of weeks it would crash about once a day, and the error report thingy had no clue what the problem was. The crash logs in Event Viewer reported that each crash had the EXACT same error code, letter-for-letter. I'm not 100% sure, but I think each time it crashed, I was downloading something. Eventually that problem died down and hasn't happened again for another two weeks.
I also noticed that about once every hour and a half or so, I would lose my server connections to IRC, MUCK, AIM, everything. I could reconnect after about two seconds with no problems, but naturally this was driving me insane.
All the while, I was using the native drivers built into XP for my Linksys LNE100TX NIC card.
After being advised to do so from a friend, I went to Linksys' website to get new drivers for my NIC card, just in case. I never COULD find XP drivers. It gave instructions on how to install XP drivers, but whenever I download a driver set (with drivers for all flavors of Windows, Linux, etc), there was never XP drivers. I figure I'd try putting in the Win2K drivers just to see how it'd work.
Well, the latter problem went away. I was able to stay connected the entire day and not lose my connection once. BUT a little while ago this computer blue-screened (I disabled auto-restart). I restarted the machine, then Windows came up saying there was some kind of device driver conflict, though it couldn't tell me what was having the conflict.
Considering that the drivers for my NIC are the only ones I've tinkered with, and the first problem I mentioned, I think my NIC is at fault.
I later went to Microsoft's XP compatibility website and I didn't find ANY Linksys NICs listed there...
Is my NIC just not XP compatible?
EDIT: I'm looking some more at the XP compatibility website, and according to the listings, the v5 revision of the card is XP compatible. The v4 card (what I'm using) is not even listed. Greeeeeat...