The user manual clearly says not to plug the device in until after the install. How? Inspecting the CD reveals that the driver on the CD is later than the version at the website! There were no valid drivers, even though the install program reported no error.īut, it was working fine until my router misadventure today. I assumed the latest drivers were at the website and reinstalled them. I accidentally uninstalled it (mistake in trying to troubleshoot a problem at the router) and then ran into this issue in reinstalling. It's clear to me that the drivers provided by the hardware manufacturer areĬausing the problem, so, my only alternative at the moment was to switch back to wired network and hope Microsoft will develop a driver for my adapter. If you try connecting the adapter after your system is fully functional and installing the drivers, it will fail as if you were attempting to install an incompatible Vista driver. Performed, all USB ports stop working, forcing the user to reboot in safe mode and then reboot once again in normal mode to get the system back to work. if you try installing Windows 7 64 with the adapter connected it won't just fail to install the device drivers upon first run, but also freeze the driver install subsystem, making it impossible to install any drivers.

The device drivers available at their website don't workĪt all (on any Windows versions) however, lucky enough, the setup program in the CD that came along with the adapter installs the driver successfully on XP/Vista and Win7 32, but. First of all, unfortunately Encore has an horrible customer service and won't provide support to the problem I've encountered when attempting to install the mentioned wireless adapter on Windows 7 64.

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