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And we have a winner. Sickboy gets it. After my earlier reply I realised that the Custom WLAN software was still running so I deleted that properly, loaded drivers for the adapter only and left it up to Windows to run the adapter and now everything is running sweet as. Thanks very much for the help.

Guys, thanks for the suggestions, tried them but no joy. Am going to go the reinstall route now since what Bratty said sounds very much like the probs I've got. Cheers

The specs: Arma v1.08 (and 1.09 beta) Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 @ 2.4Ghz 4 Gb RAM nVIDIA 8800 GTS 640Mb DDR2 (169.21) X-Fi XtremeGamer XP SP2 The problem: The game constantly crashes in the transition between being in the lobby and selecting a role and the initial data download, or, if not then, as it's in the loading frame just before entering the game. The loading bar at the bottom usually progresses to about half way and then I get the "no message received for 15... 20... 30... seconds" error and then the entire PC locks up and has to be rebooted. If I alt-tab out and use explorer to end it I can stop the PC locking up but the thing that occurs every time is it disables my internet connection and I have to unplug/replug the wireless (NETGEAR) adapter to get it back up and running. If I don't manage to stop the PC crashing, when I reboot it doesn't detect the wireless adapter at all and I have to do the unplug/replug to get it to detect it again. Things I've tried/noted: All drivers up-to-date. GPU and CPU temperature seem fine Tried it with the anti-virus (AVG Free Edition) and Windows Firewall off - no difference On the wireless router I've got ARMA port forwarding on 2302. My pings to servers don't seem extraordinarily high - usually 100-200.. I don't have any problems with any other games Once I manage to connect to a game it seems fairly stable, it's the getting into the games which is the problem. Any ideas? I haven't seen anything similar in any other posts. Cheers.