Workaround for CPU spikes and system lags, caused by TL-WN727N 100513 drivers
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Workaround for CPU spikes and system lags, caused by TL-WN727N 100513 drivers
Region : Greece
Model : TL-WN727N
Hardware Version : V1
Firmware Version :
ISP :
Hope this can help anyone with similar problems.
My OS is Windows 7 x64 and I use the TP-LinK TL-WN727N USB wireless adapter, hardware version 1 (actually, there is no mention of version on the adapter, but TP-LinK mentions that this indicates a version 1 hardware in all cases).
For the past few months, I've been experiencing random but frequent situations (approximately every second day), where my system would start lagging. Audio stuttering during media playback was usually what alerted me. Once this occured, the only solution would be to reboot.
Resource monitor indicated "System Interrupts" as the process responsible for the high CPU consumption. According to several online resources this is often due to hardware drivers, so I looked in my recent driver updates and found that the one matching the problematic period was the wireless adapter update I made a few months ago (v.100513, latest official version). I tried switching the TL-WN727N driver with the Ralink RT2870 one, which I downloaded from the official site ( http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/usb-rt2870rt2770rt3x7xrt537xrt5572/) and that was it. Problem gone!
Model : TL-WN727N
Hardware Version : V1
Firmware Version :
ISP :
Hope this can help anyone with similar problems.
My OS is Windows 7 x64 and I use the TP-LinK TL-WN727N USB wireless adapter, hardware version 1 (actually, there is no mention of version on the adapter, but TP-LinK mentions that this indicates a version 1 hardware in all cases).
For the past few months, I've been experiencing random but frequent situations (approximately every second day), where my system would start lagging. Audio stuttering during media playback was usually what alerted me. Once this occured, the only solution would be to reboot.
Resource monitor indicated "System Interrupts" as the process responsible for the high CPU consumption. According to several online resources this is often due to hardware drivers, so I looked in my recent driver updates and found that the one matching the problematic period was the wireless adapter update I made a few months ago (v.100513, latest official version). I tried switching the TL-WN727N driver with the Ralink RT2870 one, which I downloaded from the official site ( http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/usb-rt2870rt2770rt3x7xrt537xrt5572/) and that was it. Problem gone!
