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A6200 Dead Since Win 10 Upgrade
Your newest, supposedly Win 10 compatible driver, is not Win 10 compatible. My A6200 adapter was working fine until I upgraded to Win 10. Now it is completely dead. The firmware is updated, and I hav...
steve1678 wrote:I used the download from the netgear support page for " A6200 - Win 10 Beta Software" and at least my adapter works with some intermittant drops. When it does stop connecting I just remove the adapter and reinsert it, then reconnect (still a pain but better than nothing). Try that.
Thanks. Yes, I tried that numerous times with all available drivers, standalone and non. My A6200 was just dead. The blue light never came on and the LinkSys Genie or Microsoft WLan could never initialize it. Thankfully I made a restore point before I tried reinstalling the A6200 drivers to eliminate the dropped connections after my Win 10 upgrade. My A6200 is now initializing but Win 10/the A6200 seems to be creating havoc on my WiFi. I am now regularly having to reset my router to restore reliable connections which I have only had to do maybe once a month in the past (now several times daily). Win 10/the A6200 has some serious WiFi corruption issues but I cannot pinpoint what is going on. I wish Netgear would get their crap together. I cannot believe they are leaving us hanging like this. None of their Win 10 drivers are even close to being released to the public. I am so flipping sick of the incompetence of today's software and hardware manf's. It seems that everything on the market is in a prerelease/beta state even though it is pushed out to the masses. The flipping A6200 has been out for years and they still cannot get it right and don't even get me started on the issues with the lameness of the LinkSys Genie. Sorry, lol, I'll stop ranting now. I only hope that I do not have to update my A6200 driver before they release a reliable driver. My A6200 would obviously be completely unusable again. My only option would be to roll back to Win 7 to use my A6200. That would be completely ridiculous.
Hello AJ777,
Take a look in your event log and see if you can see what I see, as I have posted about this problem as well. Right click Start > Event Viewer. Navigate to Windows Logs > System. Does the event 10400 come up? I don't have a solution yet, as the event appears to be related to a driver signaling a restart for some reason.
Edit: My thread is here:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/WiFi-Adapters/Event-10400-A6200/m-p/969951/highlight/true#M864
No, I'm not seeing a 10400 but when I did a system restore it may have removed all data after the restore. Sorry. This is such a pain. My cdrom players are now giving me problems as well, and PowerDVD will not play any DVDs, Blu-rays or m2ts files. It's always been a dysfunctional player though. I will never buy another license for any of their products ever again. I'll never forgive myself for buying the last one but I got into a bind and needed what I thought was a reliable player to troubleshhot some issues; was I ever wromg. HP lists no new drivers for Windows 10 and what Asus is providing is not beneficial. This Windows 10 push is the lamest I have experienced in 30 years from Microsoft. It's like they are turning all of their customers worlwide into their beta testers. This is so flipping pathetic. Every time I turn around I'm finding something else that is not working. Sorry for the rant... Good luck with your issues.