I've been having long term problems with my computer

[deadmoo5e]

To begin with. I had issues with PCE-AC68 on Windows 10 for a long time (although not immediately after upgrading to W10. Like after two months). I would get BSODs intermittently that the driver to the PCE-AC68 card was causing. This thread explains the problem I was having in greater detail.   I got my PCE-AC68 replaced with a new one from the retailer yet the problems with the BSODs persisted.

 

After I did a clean install of Windows 7 I was getting these timeouts and losing the internet connection for a few seconds intermittently. (No BSODS). Got some tips on this forum and I changed the DNS IP settings to these static adresses and I disabled IPv6 and it's working somewhat properly.

 

Anyhow I feel these solutions are like a band-aid and I really want to upgrade back to Windows 10 before the deadline. 

 

Is the answer as simple as a faulty motherboard or something?

 

My hardware

CPU Intel i7 4770k
Motherboard Asus Maximus VI Formula
RAM Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB 1866MHz
GPU Asus Radeon R9 Fury Strix
Case Fractal Design R5
Storage OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
PSU Corsair AX 750

WLAN Asus PCE-AC68
Display BenQ XL2420Z
Cooling Corsair H100i
Keyboard Logitech G710+
Mouse Logitech G400

Operating System  Windows 7 Home Premium

[ChrisCross]

4 minutes ago, deadmoo5e said:

 

mhm. do you have an overclock on that 4770k?

[deadmoo5e]

1 minute ago, ChrisCross said:

mhm. do you have an overclock on that 4770k?

No I'm currently running default settings in the bios.

[Moonzy]

nothing of your build would cause problems with windows 10 though

even your wifi card have driver for windows 10 `-`

 

so im suspecting hardware issues that are causing those BSOD

the fastest way to test is by swapping your components with any spare parts you have lying around

though not much people have spare parts

 

or it could be other softwares clashing with your wifi card driver

or maybe some outdated driver for your motherboard that you havent updated?

[deadmoo5e]

7 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

nothing of your build would cause problems with windows 10 though

even your wifi card have driver for windows 10 `-`

 

so im suspecting hardware issues that are causing those BSOD

the fastest way to test is by swapping your components with any spare parts you have lying around

though not much people have spare parts

 

or it could be other softwares clashing with your wifi card driver

or maybe some outdated driver for your motherboard that you havent updated?

On the driver front I've tried everything in Windows 10. Every single one on the asus site and beta drivers. I even tried a broadcom one for a Lenovo Yoga 3 machine that kinda worked but capped the bandwith. I tried  the AC68 card in another windows 10 machine. That machine didn't crash but I still had the card  replaced from the retailer.

 

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, deadmoo5e said:

On the driver front I've tried everything in Windows 10. Every single one on the asus site and beta drivers. I even tried a broadcom one for a Lenovo Yoga 3 machine that kinda worked but capped the bandwith. I tried  the AC68 card in another windows 10 machine. That machine didn't crash but I still had the card  replaced from the retailer.

perhaps there are some drivers clashing with your wifi card, try contacting asus

 

i've had somewhat similar issue when asus's game first software was causing issue with my nvidia software, so i uninstalled game first and everything worked flawlessly

[deadmoo5e]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

perhaps there are some drivers clashing with your wifi card, try contacting asus

 

i've had somewhat similar issue when asus's game first software was causing issue with my nvidia software, so i uninstalled game first and everything worked flawlessly

I tried to contact them. They weren't much help. And I've tried uninstalling other wifi drivers in that...component list. I don't know what it's called in english. And personally I somehow doubt it since I went a few months with no problems whatsoever and then I had problems in both Windows 10 and Windows 7.

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, deadmoo5e said:

I tried to contact them. They weren't much help. And I've tried uninstalling other wifi drivers in that...component list. I don't know what it's called in english. And personally I somehow doubt it since I went a few months with no problems whatsoever and then I had problems in both Windows 10 and Windows 7.

do you have asus' game first utility? try uninstalling that?

 

and doesnt your motherboard come with the mPCIe combo wifi card thingy?

[deadmoo5e]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

do you have asus' game first utility? try uninstalling that?

 

and doesnt your motherboard come with the mPCIe combo wifi card thingy?

 I broke the wire on the antenna. A new antenna cost almost as much as that card so that why I bought it. The combo card is stashed away in a box.

 

And I do not have game first installed.

[Moonzy]

3 minutes ago, deadmoo5e said:

 I broke the wire on the antenna. A new antenna cost almost as much as that card so that why I bought it. The combo card is stashed away in a box.

 

And I do not have game first installed.

try locate and uninstall the driver for that card? that might be causing issues

 

you probably wont find it in device manager (the component list) as it is not connected

[deadmoo5e]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

try locate and uninstall the driver for that card? that might be causing issues

 

you probably wont find it in device manager (the component list) as it is not connected

This is how it looks now.

 

I have that miniport thing disabled. I'v tried uninstalling it three times but it keeps coming back.

 

 

[levibaker88]

Have you tried the AC68 in a different PCIe slot? Put it in your current GPU slot and move the GPU to the secondary position

[deadmoo5e]

1 minute ago, levibaker88 said:

Have you tried the AC68 in a different PCIe slot? Put it in your current GPU slot and move the GPU to the secondary position

Yeah I've tried moving it around 

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, deadmoo5e said:

This is how it looks now.

I have that miniport thing disabled. I'v tried uninstalling it three times but it keeps coming back.

disable windows from installing drivers and uninstall it

[levibaker88]

The single issue I have had with my AC68 is needing to uninstall it.

 

Computer Management > Device Manager > Network Adapters > right click the 802.11ac adapter and go uninstall and then restart your computer.

[deadmoo5e]

7 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

disable windows from installing drivers and uninstall it

I can try and turn on dynamic DNS and IPv6 and try downloading stuff from the internet.

 

But I don't hold much hope. Still I can't have updates turned off at all times. It becomes another band-aid solution.

 

I can already see that the download is acting the same as always. Jumping up and down, up and down and never stabilizing. I'll wait to see if the net falls out to.

[0x1e]

I know this may sound stupid, but are you able to use a wired connection with a home plug?

Just for a while to eliminate the wireless for now.

[deadmoo5e]

20 minutes ago, 0x1e said:

I know this may sound stupid, but are you able to use a wired connection with a home plug?

Just for a while to eliminate the wireless for now.

No but I've borrowed a D-Link DWA-140 and I've had no issues with that on wifi.

 

And before anyone asked I've also run a 24 hour test on my ram. I've basically been through most things.

[0x1e]

1 hour ago, deadmoo5e said:

No but I've borrowed a D-Link DWA-140 and I've had no issues with that on wifi.

 

And before anyone asked I've also run a 24 hour test on my ram. I've basically been through most things.

So, for now you've had no problems with the other Wi-Fi card?

[deadmoo5e]

2 hours ago, 0x1e said:

So, for now you've had no problems with the other Wi-Fi card?

Only problems with my current Asus card. Two of them to be exact since I got a replacement AC68.

[deadmoo5e]

11 hours ago, Moonzy said:

disable windows from installing drivers and uninstall it

It came back anyway. And I got a DNS server timeout again. (which I don't get with static DNS adresses on IPv4 and a disabled IPv6)