wireless lan usb adapter stops XP working

banok · Post by **banok** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:49 pm

When I installed drivers for my purcahsed wireless lan usb adapter (tweex 54mbps) it breaks down the whole XP OS! scvhost is constantly running at ~90% CPU usage, so I cant even try and use network connections since it stops responding.

Sometimes when I boot PC without the adapter plugged in the problem is solved, but returns as soon as I plug it in. I tried using it on a vista laptop even though its for XP and oddly it worked fine and did not cause this wierd issue.

Have absolutely no idea what to try to fix this. sent a support thing on thier website but thought I should post here since in the past people have always helped me out better on forums.

thanks for any help!

banok

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:29 pm

Did you check widnows update ,and or the manufacture's webiste for updated drivers? Also do you have sp3 installed on the xp machine?

m4a2t0t · Post by **m4a2t0t** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:13 pm

My experience with svhost issues are due to either spyware/viruses or it is the computer checking for updates(on a slower PC).

Try and disable windows updates or plug the PC into the LAN port and download the updates and try again.