Hi folks

I got 3 mobile Broadband a few months ago on the 5 gig a month contract.
All was well in the land of XP.  Got a new laptop with Windows 7, so I
thought there would be no issues.

After I installed the usual software, which incidentally, is the updated
drivers for Windows 7 - it seemed to go okay, for about two minutes.  The
whole system just froze.  I have tried for days, and the issue just repeats.
Can go for about five minutes tops, and then it freezes.

I have tried not even opening Internet Explorer, but it still does it.  So I
got a mates PC with Windows 7 on it.  It does exactly the same thing.  I
have trawled the net to see if anyone else has these issues, but with no
luck.  I got back to XP on the laptop temporarily while I try to find a
solution.

Any ideas?

Regards
SantaUK

On  2-Nov-2009, "SantaUK" <sant...@northpole.com> wrote:

No problems here so far with Win7.
Have you a laptop recovery disk or partition?
If so I'd back everything up to an external drive,
or at minimum the data you want to keep.
Then use the restore/recovery media to put things
back as they were.
First thing I do with any new system is to image
it to an external 1TB eSATA.
If the bare system runs OK then it is "the usual software"
that you quote.
I note that some software like Kaspersky anti-virus
blue screens with some firewall installs, tried
both Comodo and Outpost firewalls.
A common problem is with drivers and it may be your
network driver is not part of Win7 and is out of date,
or maybe some other driver.
I use Driver Genius (could have chosen Driver Magic
- but not sure if the latter is Win7 compatible).
DM is having a field day regularly finding Win7
driver updates, about 5 for Realtek audio,
several for Synaptics mouse and KBoard drivers,
more for JMicron and Ethernet controllers, etc.
Also FREE CNET TEch Tracker is finding
many out of date versions of applications.
All on top of Win7 saying "installing 17 of 29
critical updates, don't you dare turn me off"
So I's suspect in your case something is out of
date.
Critical test is does it work if you get back to
square one, and can you test it CAT5 ADSL to a
router, thus cutting out 3Mobile BB just as a
test.
Once you get it stable you can by trial and error
find what makes it crash/freeze.
One advantage of imaging is you can make
successive images of each step, then it's
5 mins to go back a day or two.
Something restore points don't seem very good at.

Hi, I have the exact same problem.
I am using a ZTE MF627 modem, windows 7 pro.
Like yourself within a couple of minutes of connection the system
freezes. Usually the mouse pointer is still active but that only lasta
a couple of minutes or until I try Ctrl Alt Del.
Luckily I still have my XP install to drop back on when I have to use
mobile internet, Win 7 is steady on my wifi connection for hours at a
time. No other crashes than when using the dongle.
Anybody any ideas?

Rik

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Rik

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Thanks for that - its not just me then.  I'm glad I have found someone else
with the same problem.  I have reinstalled Win7 on numerous occasions to no
avail.  Have you tried it out with Virtual Windows XP?

I have the same problem when I run the modem on my desktop PC with Win 7
ultimate.  I'm going to install Virtual XP on that and see if it works.
I'll let you know.

Hopefully Microsoft / three will get a fix for this soon.  Its the only
complaint I have for Win7 - which says something, as I really hated Vista.

Regards

SantaUK

Been given this link

http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/8325-3-mobile-broadband-dongle-wor...

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