I have a fairly new latitude 7490. It keeps randomly crashing to the BSOD. The reliability monitor in windows shows that etactista.exe stopped working. I have downloaded and installed all available drivers, and bios updates. Re-imaged the computer and nothing has changed. From my research etactista has something to do with the wifi and is part of a "new Dell-exclusive Active Steering Antenna (ASA) product"
Any ideas on what else I could do to resolve the issue is appreciated.
Thank you for your post, I did install that driver on Wednesday the 19th but my computer crashed again on Monday morning. I'm wondering if its possible that the wireless card has failed, but I did do the dell espa hardware test and it passed with no issues. So I'm stuck...
So if I remember right I ended up finding a driver update for the etactista program or whatever it is. I remember finding it on dells website for the 7490. Id take a look on their website and see if you find any driver updates that are related to the etactista program. After I did that I haven't had any reports of the computer crashing again. Part of the reason im not sure which one it was is because at the time I was trying several different things to fix the issue so im not 100 % certain that fixed it but I think that's ultimately what did it. Google dell drivers and go to the dell site, type in the model and look for the Ethertronics Active Steering Driver.
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Searching says that this has something to do with a special wifi antenna. Here's the Dell driver -
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=25ymc
make sure to use the Enter Details link to get the right driver for your laptop.
The title of your post made me think it was in a diff language.