I recently installed a very crappy network adapter (ZyXEL ZyAIR G-320 v2) and it's causing my computer to go berserk. I'm losing my connection every few hours, which follows up with incredible lag. I have to restart my computer as if it was in a hard lock. If I try to restart via the GUI, I get lagged out and a blue SCREEN that says Stop 0x0000000f4 with file rdbss.sys, etc. It's pretty strange as suddenly when I try to restart during this "lag period" I see my Windows XP look differently. Sometimes when I click on Turn Off Computer in the start menu, it shows up as a Log Off menu, with only Log Off and Switch User options. I click Log Off and I'm sent to a black screen with a small window to log in, similar to the logins for Windows 98 where there are multiple users. Also note that during this period, I cannot reconnect my internet connection.

My system stats are:

Dell DIMENSION 8250
Pentium 4 2.6 GHz, 120GB HDD, GeForce4 MX, 256MB RAM

Please help me out, thanks a bunch in advance.Tamashii........   Have you tried uninstalling the ethernet card and then reinstalling it .  

Did drivers come with it or are you using the drivers in xp.


dl65  Nice system with a crappy card. SOmetimes these "el cheapos" do better with their own drivers (as they should), sometimes with whatever XP assigns to them, and sometimes never very well regardless.

You may want to disable your onboard NIC as well, at least until this is sorted out.I went ahead and uninstalled the program and unplugged the card. I also disabled the onboard NIC. I reinstalled the card by following the instructions provided (I assume that the driver is extracted from windows XP because the cd only has the program to run the service). I tried getting the driver off their site, but what is supposedly a "driver" executable, is actually the same install file found on the cd! Talk about horrendous!

The same problems are occuring, but without the blue screen. But I'm sure that I would get the BSOD again if I leave my computer on long enough (I forgot to mention that I get BSOD sometimes when I restart during the lag period, and sometimes when I just leave my computer alone for several hours; I'd wake up to check my downloads and, hey, it's a BSOD!).

I really am clueless about the situation. I'm sure that my computer would be fine and dandy without the *censored* network adapter in, but I need an internet connection (and spending money for another card does not seem like an option at the moment). I'm going to reformat my hard-drive and reinstall Windows tomorrow just to see if that will solve anything.That sounds like the way to go if you're game. Be sure and install the software for the wireless NIC and then shutting down BEFORE adding the hardware. I don't see that model even listed on their download page, so make sure what you have. Where did you get this item? And don't be shy about contacting them. You bought their product.

http://www.zyxel.co.uk/Downloads___Drivers.47.0.htmlThanks for the response. I had installed it just as you had described: software first, shut off, card in, boot up. The driver installs itself, apparently.

I will try calling ZyXEL tomorrow as a last resort. The last time I called them was awkward. The same guy who answered my phone answer my email: "Max, right? I'm answering your email right now..." That was ten minutes after I had sent the email. I got a response after I hung up the phone. I have sent two emails over this issue in the last few days and they have no responded for over a WEEK. That speaks for itself.

The lag period kicked in three times TODAY. The most recent one proved to be INTERESTING. I had a word processor up and decided to save some documents before everything blew up. I clicked on the start menu and scrolled into the Programs list (taking about two minutes to do this) and found that every program folder was "(empty)" and the .exe icons were not available (had the "unknown file type" icon in place of it). I boot up the computer again and find that my documents were missing. Has this somehow escalated to a RAM issue?Everything went smoothly with the reformat, my computer works a little faster and I've got a bunch of free hard disk space.

But the network adapter issue has not been resolved. I had SP2 in, virus-scanned, Spybot'ed, etc. None of that seem to be the cause. I'm still getting the blue RDBSS.sys error and the lag time that is a precursor to the BSOD.

Tamashii:

One of these links might have the solution to your problem:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=stop-error+xp&num=10&hl=en&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-51%2CGGLD%3Aen&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=RDBSS+sys+&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=microsoft.com&as_rights=&safe=images

Blessings to you,
Doc