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A7000 has to install everytime I open my laptop
Just bought the new Nighthawk A7000 USB WiFi adapter to take advantage of its 1.3GBPS speed and so far I am happy with one exception, evrytime I reopen my laptop it has to reinstall the device. This...
Just a quick update on this issue. I recently did a clean Windows install and I revisited this and found the soultion.
The problem appears to have been an issue with windows switching between USB 2 & 3. Similar to the issue many people were having with not being able to stay on 5G networks.
I used the simply fix here and it works perfectly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELhMSdv3-Xs
As soon as I open my laptop it is already connected to my network and there is no re-installing of the drivers necessary, been a long time since this was the case!
Unfortnately with my new Windows update I'm only able to use the driver version 1.0.0.10. The newest version won't install and I'm currenty looking for a fix for this. Details in another post.
Just a little bump to see if anyone has any ideas as I still havent found a solution.
Thanks!
Just a quick update on this issue. I recently did a clean Windows install and I revisited this and found the soultion.
The problem appears to have been an issue with windows switching between USB 2 & 3. Similar to the issue many people were having with not being able to stay on 5G networks.
I used the simply fix here and it works perfectly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELhMSdv3-Xs
As soon as I open my laptop it is already connected to my network and there is no re-installing of the drivers necessary, been a long time since this was the case!
Unfortnately with my new Windows update I'm only able to use the driver version 1.0.0.10. The newest version won't install and I'm currenty looking for a fix for this. Details in another post.