having driver trouble, please help.

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this problem is occuring alot more often now than before and i am starting to
get worried. i could realy use some help.

"kip" wrote:

> Ok, my computer was working incredibly fine until my friend came over and
> accidently spilt soda on my front 2 usb ports. i quickly removed my wireless
> internet card and dryed it off. after that i cleaned out the usb's and
> everything else that was effected after shuting the system down. then i let
> them dry. i put my usb adapter (or wireless card) back in and windows said
> unknown device installing drivers. then it installed them and said i could
> use it. i thought what? it was already installed. so i used my back usb
> ports for the internet but... now my computer decides to spontaniously
> restart. i asked windows they said it was a driver error. i uninstalled my
> internet card and reinstalled and it is still doing it i do not know what to
> do to fix this problem but my computer still restarts at random moments
> sometimes. mostly on shutdown. it is realy starting to worry me. please any
> one i need help.

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yes yes. the usb's are unplugged but the problem i have still contains that
driver i installed. when i put the device in the malfunctioning usb it said
unknown device installing drivers. after it was done it said device may have
encountered problems try again. and then ever since then i have been using
the back usb's for the device. but i still get the serious error saying that
it was caused by a driver i installed. then it said my computer will
spontaniously restart as one of the effects. it doesnt restart alot. usualy
only during shutdown. im thinking i should just recover my system and re
install everything. i have tried restore point. didnt help. and i cannot
rollback the drivers because when the system's usb malfuctioned it found a
unkown device not my wireless internet.

"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 08:56:11 -0700, kip
>
> >this problem is occuring alot more often now than before and i am starting to
> >get worried. i could realy use some help.
>
> >> Ok, my computer was working incredibly fine until my friend came over and
> >> accidently spilt soda on my front 2 usb ports.
>
> Unplug those front two USB ports from the mobo (be careful to eyeball
> how the leads go back; Red, White, Green, Black, like the Italian flag
> on a black flag pole, sort-of). If better, dig there.
>
> Firewall on? If not, and if pre-SP2, then you'd be swarming with bots
> by now - they seem to outnumber the original Lovesan, LSASS etc. and
> they use the same old holes to get in.
>
>
>
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