Ianhearsey
19-11-2009, 11:00 PM
The card is working well for me now I have installed the Ralink drivers.
I bought 2 x edimax EW-7728in PCI cards and installed one using Vista Home premium 32 bit with 2 mb of ram and the other running Vista Home premium 64 bit with 4 mb of ram. The problems started with the 64 bit version.
I found this thread from J. Hayes in Suffolk who can take all the glory for helping me sort my constant freezing of my P.C.
He recommended the following:-
Do not install drivers from the CD. They are hopelessly out of date. Download them from the Edimax site. This solves 90% of the problems people are having with this card.
There are still bugs with the latest Edimax drivers however. This is because they have not updated their driver package to include the latest chipset drivers from RALINK (who make the actual chip that is used in this card and most other n wireless products)
You can download these drivers from the RALINK website. This will give you the 2.3.2.0 drivers instead of the 2.0.3 drivers on the Edimax site.
There are numerous bug fixes. The daddy of which solves constant freezing on windows vista 64 bit operating systems running 4gb of ram. I have seen many forum users on technology sites with this issue.
You can view full release notes on the drivers before you download them.
It took me several hours of research to find this out, after my system constantly froze. Now I am getting the best out of this fine product.
If you are a typical consumer then download the Edimax drivers.
If you are computer literate, or are using vista 64 with 4gb of ram then investigate RA link for the latest chipset drivers.
Once again, bin the CD and do not be tempted to install the drivers contained thereon - which have significant problems.
If you decide to upgrade to RALINK drivers on the strength of this, then be sure to carefully review the release notes and uninstall the Edimax drivers first - following all prompts on your system. You will also need to re-enter your router key. It will not affect the status of your router or other items on your home network.
Because I am not that computer literate I returned the first card thinking it was faulty......Sorry Novatech (in my defence you did supply the drivers with the card)
I hope this helps
I bought 2 x edimax EW-7728in PCI cards and installed one using Vista Home premium 32 bit with 2 mb of ram and the other running Vista Home premium 64 bit with 4 mb of ram. The problems started with the 64 bit version.
I found this thread from J. Hayes in Suffolk who can take all the glory for helping me sort my constant freezing of my P.C.
He recommended the following:-
Do not install drivers from the CD. They are hopelessly out of date. Download them from the Edimax site. This solves 90% of the problems people are having with this card.
There are still bugs with the latest Edimax drivers however. This is because they have not updated their driver package to include the latest chipset drivers from RALINK (who make the actual chip that is used in this card and most other n wireless products)
You can download these drivers from the RALINK website. This will give you the 2.3.2.0 drivers instead of the 2.0.3 drivers on the Edimax site.
There are numerous bug fixes. The daddy of which solves constant freezing on windows vista 64 bit operating systems running 4gb of ram. I have seen many forum users on technology sites with this issue.
You can view full release notes on the drivers before you download them.
It took me several hours of research to find this out, after my system constantly froze. Now I am getting the best out of this fine product.
If you are a typical consumer then download the Edimax drivers.
If you are computer literate, or are using vista 64 with 4gb of ram then investigate RA link for the latest chipset drivers.
Once again, bin the CD and do not be tempted to install the drivers contained thereon - which have significant problems.
If you decide to upgrade to RALINK drivers on the strength of this, then be sure to carefully review the release notes and uninstall the Edimax drivers first - following all prompts on your system. You will also need to re-enter your router key. It will not affect the status of your router or other items on your home network.
Because I am not that computer literate I returned the first card thinking it was faulty......Sorry Novatech (in my defence you did supply the drivers with the card)
I hope this helps