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[Lycan]

war59312 is your vista SP1?

[war59312]

Hi,

Thank you both for taking interest... Hope you all had a wonder Christmas!

On to the problem..

Yes I'm running Vista SP1 x86. Just installed a few days ago.

I installed the driver for this card and Windows Updates. Game I'm playing (urbanterror.net) with driver disabled, no lag. Driver enabled, freezes every few minutes. Worst of the bunch when it comes to freezing.

Also, I have COD4, COD5, Crysis, Far Cry 2, Need For Speed Under Cover, Bio Shock, Enemy Territory QUAKE Wars, Need For Speed Carbon, and THE CLUB installed.

They all freeze from time to time when the driver is enabled. If driver is disabled they "never" freeze.

Registry cleaners do more damage than good. I prefer manually via regedit. I already did that when I removed all the drivers. I've tested every single one I could find.

Anyhow, after installing driver (7.6.1.162, dated 11/4/2008) I am no longer having any disconnection problems. At least so far. I had completely removed all previous drivers (including via regedit), then I rebooted PC and router after installing.

But it's been over 24 hours now. Would not even last, but a few hours before so it's looking good. No errors logged in router log nor in windows event viewer.

Perhaps this driver should be listed on the d-link drivers download page:

http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=531&sec=0#drivers

But even this newer driver still causes the DPC issue.

Update (jan 1st 09 4:12am - whoo its late hehe..):

Still not a a single disconnect, so looks like this driver is the best yet.

[Rav]

 

I purchased this card about 2 weeks ago and have been struggling with this very problem ever since. I've tried updating the drivers, cleaning reg etc. The card connects with no issues, but staying connected is another matter, and the frequent interupts make using the computer unusable. Just sitting at the desktop with nothing running and using the DPC checker posted earlier in this thread, you can see huge spikes in the DPC checker.

disable the network card, and all is once again well with the world..

WinXP SP3

[war59312]

Yeah this card needs to be pulled off the market and we need to be refunded our $ plus shipping.

Since I doubt we will see a new driver fixing this issue any time soon.

Seeing as this appears to have been a problem from the very start, for at least two years, or at least from 10/12/2006. Cant believe this!! Crazy!

Update: This is my personal opinion at this time, not a matter of fact.

[thecreator]

Yeah this card needs to be pulled off the market and we need to be refunded our $ plus shipping.

Since I doubt we will see a new driver fixing this issue any time soon.

Seeing as this appears to have been a problem from the very start, for at least two years, or at least from 10/12/2006. Cant believe this!! Crazy!

Hi war59312,

I would not say that this card needs to be pulled off the market at all. I installed this card on an Axper Motherboard and I only installed the drivers for the card and use Network Magic's Wireless Network Manager to manage the Adapter and connection and I have not experienced disconnections at all, traceable back to the card.

The Drivers are provided by D-Link. Driver Date is 7/23/3007 and Driver Version is 6.0.3.107.

And I took a tip from Lycan to use Static IP Addresses on the Router. Works great.

Question: Are you running Anti-Virus protection or Anti-Spyware Protection on this computer?

[war59312]

No, as I said, new install of Windows Vista x86 SP1.

Only software I have installed to date are games, the driver for the card, and Office 2003 SP3.

And yes I too am using Static IP via router and even on PCs itself.

Anyhow, so you ran the DPC app and have no problem?

I can't even get Network Magic's Wireless Network Manager to work, never runs. It tires to and then just crashes. Nothing logged in event viewer. It simply fails to even start correctly.

I see the exe in task manage for about 2 seconds before it just quits. Even see the system tray icon (notification area icon) flash and then vanish..

[DKey]

I am having many of the same problems you guys have described.  I have lurked for several days and tried many of the suggested fixes (drivers only, DIR-655 tweaks).

I discovered this evening via Process Explorer that about 90% of my CPU is dedicated to Remote Procedure Calls and Interrupts.  It's no wonder there's some latency with music files and everything else for that matter.  It all goes away when I uninstall the 552.  It drops dramatically whenever the connection is lost.

I'm running an old P4 Dell XPS with XP Pro SP3.  My driver is the Atheros 7.4.2.75 dated 1/17/08.

[Lycan]

Has anyone tried uninstalling the drivers altogethers and let VISTA install it's own driver?

[thecreator]

No, as I said, new install of Windows Vista x86 SP1.

Only software I have installed to date are games, the driver for the card, and Office 2003 SP3.

And yes I too am using Static IP via router and even on PCs itself.

Anyhow, so you ran the DPC app and have no problem?

I can't even get Network Magic's Wireless Network Manager to work, never runs. It tires to and then just crashes. Nothing logged in event viewer. It simply fails to even start correctly.

I see the exe in task manage for about 2 seconds before it just quits. Even see the system tray icon (notification area icon) flash and then vanish..

Hi war59312,

How does one use Static IP Address on the PCs itself? I thought you can only assign Static IP Addresses from the Router, not the PC.

What version of Network Magic are you using? I am using version 5.1.8345.0-beta right now.

Where is the DPC application to run? Where is it found?

[war59312]

Has anyone tried uninstalling the drivers altogethers and let VISTA install it's own driver?

Yes, it simply downloads the same driver it always does via Windows Update.

Which is driver 7.4.2.75. Which causes the card to drop all the time and it too causes the darn DPC issue.

Hi war59312,

How does one use Static IP Address on the PCs itself? I thought you can only assign Static IP Addresses from the Router, not the PC.

What version of Network Magic are you using? I am using version 5.1.8345.0-beta right now.

Where is the DPC application to run? Where is it found?

Very first post in this topic tells you to get the DPC app. here: http://www.thesycon.de/eng/free_download.shtml .

Assigning static IP on the PC itself is the same as its been since pre. Win2K:

http://www.trainsignaltraining.com/windows-vista-ip-addressing/2006-11-15/

I don't recall if I was using 5.1.8345.0-beta of network magic or not. Was whatever I could find at the time so probably. Not worried about that now since I know it's a driver problem and not the connection software (or windows zero config / wireless auto config).

[Missing D-Link]

These interuptions are most noticeable in audio processing where the audio will glitch every 60 seconds for 1 second...

Another one here with the same issue.
It's a new system with Vista 32 H.P.; didn't come with the DWA-552, I purchased and installed that the same day I setup the system and installed the OS (fresh install). I have another system (XP) with the same card and never had any problems.
But I'm not having any connection issues as war59312 is having. Connecting is fine. I just have the 60 second interval sound glitch for about a second or two (pops and lags). I noticed last night in Task Manager that the CPU Process % will spike from 0% to 9-10% exactly every 60 seconds.
I have the A1 adapter; F/W Ver. 1.40 with Drivers 7.4.2.75 installed.
Updated Realtek (onboard) audio drivers to latest yesterday.
I've seen various "solutions" via Google searches - from disabling Enhancements in Sound Properties (this is a known fix for Media Player issues and has worked for some but not all folks with similar wireless card problems) - to shutting off WLANSVC either by command line or through the registry.  Those are nice, but just workarounds to a bigger issue.

Happens on audio mp3 files (both WMP and VLC media player) and while playing games.
Still looking for any solutions because this is really annoying.

[arod]

Hey guy's.. I've been running tests myself and even downloaded the DPC app.. I'm using a couple old machines running XP SP3. Ido notice the spikes in the app but don't notice any audio chops or video lag. Can you all that are having issues PM me with your system info and what sites you're going to that are causing these issues so I can try to replicate myself. Only test I did was youtube random videos to check out video and audio. I even notice if I send a constant ping to google.com the spikes will show as well but don't notice any lag..

[Missing D-Link]

PM sent.

[arod]

Got it.. Thanks Missing D-Link.. The rest of you having this issue.. please PM me your system info, links you're visiting and whatever else you're doing which causes these issues.

[ttownharley]

I am also having some issues with my new Dell 32-bit Vista machine.  It works well with Vista (when it works), but it drops a lot.  When I try to reconnect to a wireless network, it shows that there are none.  When I restart the machine, this usually solves it, until it happens again.

I did not use the setup disk to install the drivers, as it always showed there was an error.  I let Vista find the drivers itself from the disk.