{"id":2691,"date":"2009-03-26T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2010-05-18T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:57:25","slug":"usb-radio-blue-screen-of-death-on-dlink-dsb-r100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/usb-radio-blue-screen-of-death-on-dlink-dsb-r100\/","title":{"rendered":"USB Radio Blue Screen of Death on DLink DSB-R100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a DLink DSB-R100 USB Radio. It uses Gemtek drivers and such under the hood.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been frustrated because it crashes my computer with a blue screen of death (BSOD) whenever I wake the computer from Sleep mode. On another computer I used to have, it Blue-Screened at random times. That&#8217;s no good. I solved the problem on that old computer but I didn&#8217;t write down <strong>how<\/strong> I solved it. :-(  \u00a0 The radio has been sitting in my \u00a0pile-o-junk for a long time because of this.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Maher wrote a driver to fix the problem :-))). Here is how to make your radio work!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>(I&#8217;ll assume you already installed the radio) Rename your old \u00a0<strong>C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\drivers\\USBRADIO.sys<\/strong> to something like \u00a0<strong>C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\drivers\\USBRADIO.sys.original<\/strong> (just in case)<\/li>\n<li>Fetch \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/usb-radio.zip\">usbradio.sys<\/a> and and put it here: \u00a0<strong>C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\drivers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Reboot your computer<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy the lack of Blue Screens of Death<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Just in case you need it, here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/usb-radio.zip\">USBRADIO.Inf and USBRADIO.sys<\/a> I use.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the original info on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmaher.com\/software.html\">Ed Maher&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>USB Radio Driver<\/strong><br \/>\nThe D-Link DRU-R100 USB Radio is a small USB controlled FM radio, also manufactured by GemTek as &#8216;Radio 21&#8217;. Unfortunately the device is no longer supported by D-Link and the driver causes a system crash (BSOD) under Windows 2000. As the device is fairly straightforward device, I was able re-write the driver using information from Linux drivers, and a Microsoft DDK sample device driver. The driver is not yet packaged, but the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmaher.com\/software\/usbradio.sys\">usbradio.sys <\/a>file is available to manually replace the one in the system32 directory. Please let me know if you are using the driver successfully or having problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh and you&#8217;ll want to get <a href=\"http:\/\/flesko.cz\/\">Radiator<\/a> for the PC to control your radio. It works WONDERFULLY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a DLink DSB-R100 USB Radio. It uses Gemtek drivers and such under the hood. I&#8217;ve been frustrated because it crashes my computer with a blue screen of death (BSOD) whenever I wake the computer from Sleep mode. On another computer I used to have, it Blue-Screened at random times. That&#8217;s no good. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}