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February 19th, 2020 13:00

etactista

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.

 

Thanks

 
  • Mary G

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    Posted February 19th, 2020 14:00

    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. 

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    Posted February 24th, 2020 06:00

    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...

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    Posted May 22nd, 2020 09:00

    Just seeing if you were still having the issue or if you found a way to resolve.

    We are seeing this on a good handful of our 7490 Devices and are looking for a solution.

    Right Now I am just testing removing the etactista.exe all together by running the ETuninstall.exe from C:\Windows\Ethertronics\.

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    Posted May 22nd, 2020 10:00

    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.

     

    Good luck