1. Bluetooth on that laptop? If so, disable it temporarily.

2. Run thorough anti-virus and anti-spyware scans.

3. Use MSCONFIG to temporarily disable background processes.

On 13 Nov 2006 14:02:10 -0800, warner_patrick@hotmail.com wrote in
<1163455330.043406.294330@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>:

>Right, let's recap where we are:
>
>1) Over the weekend I took the laptop to a hotspot and I found the same
>symptoms when logged into the hotspot. That means the problem is
>coming from the laptop or from something upon my person - I had already
>eliminated my cellphone from enquiries, so the only other electronic
>object on my person is my watch - I doubt it's that.
>
>2) Disabling radio on the task manager - I think I already had
>effectively tried this in a previous message - last week I looked for
>the CPU glitches whilst there was radio disabled and no network cable
>connected. The glitches were not there. They only occur when I am
>connected to a wireless network. In fact, if radio is enabled, but I
>am not connected to a network, they don't occur either - only when I am
>actually logged on to a wireless network. Therefore this seems to
>indicate that it's something specific to the wireless card drivers or
>utility, or at least a conflict between that and something else.
>
>3) My Wireless card is listed as a "Dell Truemobile 1400 Dual Band WLAN
>Mini-PCI Card". The manufacturer is Broadcom. I don't know what the
>chipset is. I did also notice just now that there are a whole bunch of
>settings that can be changed from within the Device manager for the
>network card - I never tried changing any of them.
>
>4) I still can't isolate anything using process manager even when set
>to high refresh rate, but I will download and try that other process
>manager you mentioned.
>
>5) I need to check the Dell website for updated drivers - I checked it
>several months ago and there was no update for a couple of years, but
>I'll check again.
>
>6) Battery charger, I have tried it without the battery being on charge
>and no change. Should I also try it with mains power but no battery in
>the PC?
>
>We are getting closer.....
>
>cheers
>Patrick.

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