Solved: Continuous blue screens

[harshadn]

I am running windows xp - sp2. For the last few days, I was getting continuous blue screens whenever I booted up my laptop with the following message:

ar5211.sys tried to write to read-only memory space......

This kept on happening a lot, so I found out that this may have been caused by an Atheros driver and decided to disable it from startup through msconfig. Now the laptop runs fine, but whenever I lose wireless signal, it blue-screens once again.

Has anyone faced this problem, how have you fixed it?

 

[Rollin' Rog]

If that driver is implicated in all of them you need to update it if possible or remove and reinstall it if not. It is apparently an Atheros or Dlink wireless driver:


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=ar5211.sys+stop&btnG=Search

 

[harshadn]

It is the Atheros driver bundled with the D-Link wireless card/router that is the problem. Did a search on the net - looks like others are suffering too. Problem disappeared after I disabled the startup service and reinstalled new drivers from D-Link.

BTW the driver that I am supposed to use (as per D-Link) does not work for me, the driver I am NOT supposed to use, actually works. How stupid is that?

 

[Rollin' Rog]

In case we run across this again, which driver are you using that worked?

 

[harshadn]

Its a new version of the same driver ar5211.sys with a date of 9/10/2004. The earlier driver had a date of 7/7/2004. There is no version number in the name or in the properties that I could find.

 

[Rollin' Rog]

Okedoke, thanks. I've seen some others with the atheros problem too and just wanted to confirm there was some update or resolution available.