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The forum thread discusses a recurring Windows 10 crash caused by the athwbx.sys driver, related to a Qualcomm Atheros wireless adapter, with troubleshooting focused on driver updates and hardware compatibility. The original poster reports more frequent crashes when wired rather than wireless, and attempts to downgrade to Windows 7 have been unsuccessful due to the elapsed time since upgrading. The overall tone indicates frustration with resolving the issue and disappointment over limited downgrade options after the 30-day window.
The forum thread discusses a recurring Windows 10 crash caused by the athwbx.sys driver, related to a Qualcomm Atheros wireless adapter, with troubleshooting focused on driver updates and hardware compatibility. The original poster reports more frequent crashes when wired rather than wireless, and attempts to downgrade to Windows 7 have been unsuccessful due to the elapsed time since upgrading. The overall tone indicates frustration with resolving the issue and disappointment over limited downgrade options after the 30-day window.
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kemical
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BugCheck 1000007E, {ffffffffc0000005, fffff8005066036a, ffffd00025546768, ffffd00025545f80}
Probably caused by : athwbx.sys ( athwbx+20036a )
Followup: MachineOwnerthis bugcheck can result from hardware incompatibility issues, Bios compatibility issues, device driver issues and memory issues. The probably cause is your wireless driver:
athwbx.sys Thu Oct 17 10:46:01 2013: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485WB-EG Wireless Network Adapter
If I'm correct your using a Satellite C650D Notebook yes? If so this means you must use the drivers supplied by the manufacturer and when I checked all I could find were drivers for Windows 7.
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You could try updating the wireless driver (it's marked down as 'Lan' on the driver page) but it is dated 2010 which is probably too old for Windows 10 but see how you go.
Did you check the machine was compatible for windows 10?
Windigo
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The problem seems to happen a lot more when I had hard wired than when using wifi. Yes it is a Satellite, not 100% sure of model (POS). No I did not check to see if the machine was compatible with Windows 10. How hard would it be to roll back to 7?
kemical
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Well that driver I mentioned on the support site should cover both, wired and wireless.
As long as you haven't had windows 10 installed longer than 31 days then you can roll bak to win 7:
How to Uninstall Windows 10 and Downgrade to Windows 7 or 8.1
