When I Connect to My Wifi It Blue Screens My Computer

How to troubleshoot if your computer goes to a blue screen when installing TP-Link wireless adapter

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Updated 01-13-2021 07:48:01 AM 71696

This Article Applies to:

Archer T2U Nano , Archer T3U Plus , Archer T600U Plus , Archer T9UH , Archer T4UH , Archer T1U , Archer T2UH , Archer T2U , Archer T3U , Archer T4U , Archer T600U Nano , Archer T2UHP , Archer T4UHP , T4U V2 , Archer T2U Plus , Archer T4UH V2

There are many reasons if your computer goes to a blue screen when installing TP-Link wireless adapter. It might be caused by software issue that the TP-Link driver is not compatible with the operating system or there is conflict between the driver and some software/file installed on your computer. It also might be caused by hardware reason, if your computer's motherboard is incompatible with the TP-Link wireless adapter.

This article applies to typical case of software issue when the TP-Link adapter has conflict with some software/file installed on your computer.

The driver which installed automatically by windows OS is not compatible with our TP-Link adapter. In this case, we need delete the incompatible driver file to avoid this issue, please follow steps as below.

Step 1:  When the computer shows a blue screen, it will also provide us some details of the error.

Step 2:  From this tip, the blue screen is related with this driver file----rtwlanu.sys.

Step 3:  Unplug the TP-Link adapter, reboot your computer.

Step 4:  Go toc:\Windows\System32\drivers, Find the driver file "rtwlanu.sys" in the folder and delete it.

Step 5:  Plug our adapter back into the computer, then, install our official driver for this adapter.

Step 6:If the issue is still the same, please collect the following information and contact TP-Link support

1). the motherboard of the computer

2). the driver info of TP-Link adapter

3). Kernel dump file:

Please click this link to generate a Kernel memory dump

https://www.tp-link.com/support/faq/1080/

4). the model number of the main router.

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