Windows7 Plug and Play. Is it rubbish?

Avoriaz

Plug and Play was fine on my old Dell Windows XP laptop. I could plug in and remove my Speedtouch 330 wired USB modem and it would happily register it or tell me it was removed.

With Windows7 on my powerful Acer laptop, I get the blue screen of death if I accidentally or deliberately remove the modem cable from the USB socket.

I have installed the correct drivers and the modem works fine.

But, if I snag the cable and it comes out, or if I pull it out to use something else, the laptop just crashes to a blue screen and reboots.

I can avoid this by "ejecting" it in the little pop up box at bottom right of the screen but XP didn't need that extra step.

Any ideas?

(Other than to stop pulling the cable out. )

Thanks.:)

withabix

Get a new modem and connect to it wirelessly using your 'powerful Acer laptop'.

You are probably due one for free from your broadband provider!

closed

Request a free wireless router from your isp, far better solution than usb modems, better security, no drivers required, and as you have a laptop, no wires either.

JasX

you'll also benefit form a much higher level of security putting your laptop behind a router with its own firewall rather than having it sit directly on the internet with a USB modem.

Hammyman

Avoriaz wrote: »

I can avoid this by "ejecting" it in the little pop up box at bottom right of the screen but XP didn't need that extra step.

Thanks.:)

That's how you're supposed to remove USB devices....

New drivers is the first solution but as others have said, get a wireless ADSL Modem Router.

Avoriaz

withabix wrote: »

Get a new modem and connect to it wirelessly using your 'powerful Acer laptop'...

I have one but it is less reliable than my old wired modem.

I download a lot of 100mb plus video downloads and my Belkin wireless kept cutting off mid download.

The old wired modem is just as fast and doesn’t give a problem unless I snag the cable.

Avoriaz

Hammyman wrote: »

That's how you're supposed to remove USB devices.....

Then surely it is a backward step from XP?

XP was quite happy for me to plug in and unplug.

jayme1

Avoriaz wrote: »

I have one but it is less reliable than my old wired modem.

I download a lot of 100mb plus video downloads and my Belkin wireless kept cutting off mid download.

The old wired modem is just as fast and doesn’t give a problem unless I snag the cable.

I am inclined to blame the belkin router as I have had the same problem (wireless cutting out and had to pull the power to restart it) with TWO belkin routers, I then got a cheap netgear wireless router it hasnt had any problem at all so I would just by another cheap router.

Hammyman

Avoriaz wrote: »

I have one but it is less reliable than my old wired modem.

I download a lot of 100mb plus video downloads and my Belkin wireless kept cutting off mid download.
.

I've highlighted what the problem is. If you choose to use cheap rubbish, you get problems. The only reason Belkin is in existence is because PC World stock their detritus.

JJ_Egan

From memory XP did not have the Safely Remove Hardware Icon .
The reason really for this tools is to make sure that the data is no longer still being written to the USB device before removal . I have corrupted a fair few files by whipping a usb drive out the wrong way .

Those mass supplied Speedtouch Modems where notorious at being difficult in regards the USB drivers . Been there done that threw it in the bin .


jje

John_Gray

JJ_Egan wrote: »

From memory XP did not have the Safely Remove Hardware Icon.

Your memory fails you! It (still) does.