Your card should appear as "802.11n Wireless LAN card" Scan for new hardware if your network card isnt detected after uninstalling it. Make sure to check the "delete driver software for this device" before you proceed or else windows will re-install the ralink driver. If you are fully aware of the risk involved (which is little, to be realistic, this can always be undone & you can always re-install the ralink drivers if this deosn't prove to be an effective solution), I will explain in detail how I managed to do this.ġ) Open up device manager (right click the bottom left corner in windows 8 and a shortcut to it will appear in the drop-down menu)Ģ) Find network adapters and expose it's contentsģ) Right-click on your WLAN adapter (should be something similar to "Ralink RT5390 802.11b/g/n.") and click "uninstall" from the drop down menuĤ) - A popup should appear and you should be given the option to proceed with the uninstall or cancel it. Occasionally, it will forget the connection once I awaken the laptop from sleep, but this issue was much, much worse with the ralink drivers than without. Now, other than the wireless button light stuck with an orange glow, and device manager listing my network card as #10, I am still using this driver with minimal issues.
The hardware is still not the best but I can at least browse the net in my room without my connection experiencing constant dropping out. Voila! My connection problems are practically non-existant at this point. So, once removing the ralink driver from my computer, windows installed it's default driver for my network adapter and. When a component on your comp has it's driver stripped, Windows software has a few drivers that will install by default for your hardware so that it can remain functional on your computer. I simply uninstalled the driver from my comp. After trying everything under the sun, I decided I would bite the bullet and I tried something a little unorthodox. Driver update after driver update, no luck. I use my computer on the top level of my house, and the router is at the basement. As soon as I moved further away from the router, I experienced constant drop outs, and the connection would always flounder between low signal strength, to completely disconnecting itself from the router, where I had to manually re-connect it. Out of the box, my comp was working fine and it connected to the network OK. I have an HP Envy fortunate enough to be equipped with a Ralink RT3290, running windows 8. I'm not sure if this will be a complete fix for you, but I've been wresting with my network adapter for months and this has proven to be the most effective for my computer. These ralink adapters are plain ol' sh*t.
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