Vista Airport Drivers - Causing Vista Slowdown

Hiya,
Dont know if this is the right place really, but I have started to play around with Vista on my 20¨ Imac Dual-Core2.
Everything runs excellent and I get a very respectable 4.5 Experience rating - BUT, the system slows down every 60 seconds or so just for a few seconds.
After doing some research, I've narrowed the problem down to the wireless Airport drivers - in the iMac, the Airport card is listed as a Broadcom 802.11n.
I cannot find any working drivers at the moment though - has anybody else experienced this and any ideas of a fix please?
Thanks, Paul.

Thank you for your fast response. What you have said is indeed correct too. Thank you for pointing out the X-Fi Xtreme Gamer card said for XP on the box. You are Creative, you are a massi've company. Your excuses don't wash. The problem us consumers have , and I'm sure I speak on behalf of most of your?valuable customers who have migrated to Vista/Vista?64 is the computer industry being?apparently unable?to provide 00% working drivers and applications for?the new operating system from Microsoft at the time of it's launch?The truth is, the launch of Vista/Vista 64 has been a disaster for the everyday PC consumer?(vista 64 in particular) because not even the 'major?players' have provided the level of driver support their customers quite rightfully expect from them. It is a shambles. Whether that is Microsofts fault or the others?like you?not deli'vering?I don't know. What I do know is I am fed up with it all.
Ok, I have already had to ditch a TV Tuner card that no longer works with Vista 64 (no driver support!) and I'm disappointed,?but we are talking about a very small company here. Creative should be ashamed of themselves to not have 00% working drivers and applications ready at the time of the Vista launch. Not just Creative, but all the 'major companies' out there (who I guess I can't mention here right) should be really and truly ashamed of themselves at how they have treated customers. It is an awful situation right now. I am a PC enthusiast and I love playing games. I pump a lot of my own money into the computer industry. Right now I feel abandoned and fed up (no I'm not going over the top) by Microsoft and the computer industry.
This experience could put computer enthusiasts off?for good because this is diabolical, unacceptable and is?not good for your business or anyone else in the computer industry. Now then, let me think,? WII, PS3, XBOX360 (yes prior to Vista, no after it). Life doesn't have to be this complicated does it.

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- Scanned the registry from anything containing "Creative" or "ct" and deleted it, if I deemed it safe
- Searched my hard dri'ves for anything referencing ct or Creative and deleted it.
- Scanned my registry with CCleaner
- Used the Creative Setup tool included in some of the older versions of the Creative drivers and used the driver removal feature that it has, to remove the drivers. Curiously, the tool would keep on detecting the driver, even after having removed it and performing a restart.
My System:
I run Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, with Service Pack 3 and all updates since then. My BIOS is the latest there is (from some time in 2007) and my PCMCIA controller is a Toshiba ToPIC00. I haven't updated my BIOS, the drivers for the CardBus controller or for my chipset in the half year that I did not use the sound card in.
?Creative Developers: If you like, I can crash my system a couple more times with your drivers, and send you a full kernel memory dump! Those things are about 200 megs each, so be sure to tell me the location of an FTP server or similar, that I could use.
Thanks for all your help
Message Edited by xylofoam on 06--2009 :5 AM

Hi Xylofoam,
Please check your PM, appreciate if you could provide the dump files. Thanks.

NVidia drivers cause system instability

Hello,
I recently purchased an MSI 865 Neo2 FIS2R mother board. Here is how
I have it configured:
o Power Supply - FSP400-60PFN 400W (3.3V/28A, 5V/40A, 12V/15A, 5VSB/2A,
-5V/0.3A, -12V, 0.8A)
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o RAM - 2 512MB PC3200 Kingston HyperX CL2
o RAID 0 - 2 Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus SATA drives.
o Video - Aopen GF3Ti500
o Primary IDE Master - TDK Indi DVD 440N
o Secondary IDE Slave - 56X CDROM Drive
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unstable. Specifically here is what I noticed:
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flicker between black & blue around the same spot each time.
o From the login screen, when I chose my account, it would
briefly show my desktop and then I would hear the relays in my monitor
click, the screen go black, a second click and my screen would be fine
again.
o If I used the display properties control panel and chose the
advanced option, again, click, blackness, click, everything's OK.
o I noticed that when I tried to use Window's Media player to play a
CD, it would crash during the 2nd song. It would crash sooner and
sooner each time I restarted it until it was crashing as soon as I
started it (assuming I didn't reboot). After than IE would crash,
Windows Explorer might crash or the system might spontaneously reboot.
o After rebooting, the system would be less stable, with IE or Windows
explorer crashing sooner than before (without even using Media Player).
This would continue to get worse (across re-boots) until it would
start crashing while loading Windows XP.
MAT and DOT are in the default setting and I have not tried adjusting
any voltages, etc.
If I booted in safe mode and uninstalled the display driver, everything
would return to normal and the system would run fine. I checked the
IRQs to make sure that wasn't a problem. I noticed a device from the
Intel Chipset and the VGA card were both sharing IRQ 16. I don't know
much about this (including how to change an IRQ) so I tried disabling
the Intel device (it dealt with the USB and I have no USB devices
currently attached). The system didn't seem to mind having that device
disabled. I reinstalled the display drivers, but the system behaved
exactly the same.
I also tried stepping down to the 44.03 version of the drivers but
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things turned purple!).
I also tried swapping between the GF3Ti500 and a GeForce4 MMX 440 The
only difference is that while starting windows, the monitor would
briefly go black instead of flickering between black and blue. Both
cards run fine in my old machine, an MSI NForce mobo, using the
45.23 drivers.
Since the problems usually started when I was using Media Player, I
tried disabling the sound device. The system seemed to run fine (with
the exception of the monitor clicking). I could play movies with the
media player, browse with IE, etc. with no crashes. I couldn't find
any resources conflicts between the sound and the vga card.
Windows trouble shooter suggested updating the mobo BIOS. I was
previously running 1.3. I tried updating to 1.7. The reflash seemed
to go fine. But when I rebooted, all I got was a black screen (no
beep). I looked at the D-Bracket and noticed that it was stuck on the
RTC test. I don't think that's the problem. The next step is
initialization of the video system. I tried the emergency recovery
procedure (with the 1.7 BIOS). It worked, but still the screen
remained black, stuck on the same test.
How do I get (either) video card to work? And should I just leave the
system flashed to 1.7, or try to use the emergency recovery program to
get back to 1.3?
Thanks in advance!

Hey Guys. Thanks for the help. I don't doubt that the NVidia drivers are fine, they're just part of the puzzle. Just to be sure, I got a new PSU. Here are it's specs:
+5V/40A, +12V/24A, +3.3V/32A, -5V/-0.5A, -12V/1.0A, +5V SB/2A, max load 530W.
As I mentioned earlier, I had tried updating the BIOS to 1.7, after which it sticks on the RTC test (see my original post for details). After installing the new PSU, it still stuck on the RTC test. I tried reflashing to 1.3, but now the memory test is failing. Does that seem right? The RTC test is after the memory test, so why should reflashing to 1.3 cause a memory failure? I'm assuming the reflash didn't work correctly. If I can get it to work (fingers crossed) I'll let you know what happens.

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Hi -
I have a regular BootX boot time kernal panic which i have traced to the attempt to load AirPort Exteme drivers in 10.4.2. What is odd is that after a reboot (or cold boot), I get a KP, have to restart, and my PB is then fine. In other words it only fails every other boot, like clockwork. Booting Commmand-V shows the panic occurs in loading Airport driver.
So I would like to remove and reinstall the drivers. Can anyone advise 1) where I can get the latest drivers/kext files and 2) what I need to do to reinstall?
Many thx.

The latest drivers are provided by Airport 4.2:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airport42formacosx1042.html
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I installed a new AirPort Extreme yesterday in compatabiity mode.
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2. Works perfectly with my WinXP laptop.
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