Windows 10: PC Caught in a Boot Loop After Updating Network Card Driver

PC Specs:

CPU: Intel i5

Memory: 16gb Ram

Storage: 4 tb HDD

Graphics Card: MSI Nvidia 1050ti

Network card: Asus PCE-AC56



So, this isn't the first time this has happened with the Network Card. When I first installed the card, I used the online updater directly from the asus website to install the necessary drivers since its generally regarded that the drivers on the disk that they provide are most likely out of date. When I did that, however, my PC would end up going into a boot loop every time I tried to re-start it. It has only ever done a boot loop when I install the newest software for the Network Card. So I decided to go with the drivers that were on the disk and I no longer had any boot loop errors.


Earlier this week I decided to do a complete fresh re-install of windows. I wiped everything from my drives and re-installed the OS on a new HDD. Naturally I needed to install the drivers for my network card again. At first I tried installing using the Asus driver installer however i once again ran into the boot loop issue. I tried installing from the microsoft driver downloads page I did use a 2015 driver and It ran fine for about 2 days, however today I booted it up and got the BSOD saying SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED with widwifi.sys being the culprit for the issue.

Is there something I'm doing wrong here or a driver that Microsoft could provide that covers this kind of network card since the ASUS drivers seem to just be messing up my system every time I install them.


I'm not sure if this will help but it looks like the BSOD error was very similar to this one: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/error-bsod-system-thread-exception-not-handled/6519216a-53ca-4702-9741-1ebd1ff82e1f

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Boot Loop

Hi all

I am having an issue with Windows 10 When it boots it gets stuck in a loop. It was working fine I had gone from Windows 8.1. It running on a relatively new build pc about 1 year. which was working perfectly until Nvidia updated my graphics card Now Im caught
in a boot loop I have tried windows 10 repair disc a boot repair disc but no joy. I cant restore as the installation is to new to have a restore point and I updated to 10 from Dreamspark so I dont have a disc Please help if you can

Thanks

 

Network card not showing

Hi,



Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.



In order to help you better, could you please confirm a couple of things

• 
  Are you using router?
  
• 
  Are you getting any error message?
  
  
  

Is you are using router then I suggest you to reset the router and check if the issue persist.

Also I suggest you to update the Network Adapter driver. Here is the steps:

• 
  Press Windows+X key on your desktop and select
  Device Manager.
  
• 
  Locate Network drivers, expand, right click and click
  on Update.
  
  Hope this information was helpful and do let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to assist.
  
  
  

 

WiFi card shown in Device manager but not in Network & sharing center

Hi Budd,

We suggest that you update the drivers and check if it works.

Follow the steps below to update the Wireless Adapter's driver:

• Press Windows key+X.
• Select Device Manager.
• Right-click on the Network Driver (802.11n Wireless Card).
• Click on the Driver tab.
• Select Update Driver.

If the update went successful, please reboot the computer to take effect the changes.

Let us know the result.