Netgear WGR614 Setup Triggering White Screen of Death Issues on HP Laptop
Hi everyone,
I recently set up a Netgear Wireless-G Router (WGR614) on my HP Vista laptop, and ever since, I have been facing some frustrating problems. One day everything was working fine, but after shutting down my laptop and trying to restart it the next morning, I ran into issues.
When I powered it on, the screen stayed white with a bunch of little lines and nothing would load. I shut it off and tried again, but the same thing happened. Eventually, I closed the laptop, and after reopening it a few minutes later, the screen came back to normal.
Then, I ran into the White Screen of Death three times. I tried troubleshooting and found a few driver updates through HP Health Check related to a wireless adapter and card reader, so I installed those. But I’m still having white screen issues at startup.
Could it be something related to the router setup or a hardware issue? Any ideas?
I recently set up a Netgear Wireless-G Router (WGR614) on my HP Vista laptop, and ever since, I have been facing some frustrating problems.
First thought, you don't set up the router on a laptop. Withmaybe, but beyond the browser there is nothing on the laptop that will interact with the router. Starting and stopping the laptop has no effect on the router. There won't even be any interaction between the two until the laptop reboots and tries to connect to the network,
The only exception that I can think of is if you installed the Netgear desktop genie for Windows. Perhaps you could explain what you did in a little more detail.
Beyond that there is nothing that the router does to the laptop that will interact with Windows. So, I'd look elsewhere for solutions to that.
By the way, the original WGR614 dates back to 2003. The last incarnation was in 2008. So it is many generations behind current technologies.
