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I recently had a hardware crisis and I just cannot fully recover.
Everything is perfectly stable in safe mode, networking included.
However. There are several symptoms - most typically the computer will
crash and reboot at or before the login with the above BSOD error. If,
after hours of uninstalling and reinstalling my cards in safe mode, I
can get to the desktop, sometimes everything is okay, and sometimes
heavy network use will crash it again. Even when it's been stable for
hours it has always eventually spontaneously rebooted (at 3 in the
morning when it's asleep), and again it's unable to reach the desktop.
My soundcard - and SB Live! - is now not recognized automatically by
windows, and I've found through trial and error which of the SB Live
drivers to stick it with so that it works properly (I think). My network
card is up to "#3" in the device manager, so I assume that some cruft is
left around from previous installations. Likewise the soundcard drivers
reappeared when I put it back in a slot it had been in before.
This is making my computer unusable. I've researched the error but there
seems to be no single cause. Recreating the swap file does not help. The
soundcard ends up sharing an IRQ with either the video card or the NIC
no matter where I put it. I think it would be good to really start from
scratch somehow with the drivers, blast all of that setup back to where
it is at a fresh install, but I'm just guessing. Please, help.
I recently had a hardware crisis and I just cannot fully recover.
Everything is perfectly stable in safe mode, networking included.
However. There are several symptoms - most typically the computer will
crash and reboot at or before the login with the above BSOD error. If,
after hours of uninstalling and reinstalling my cards in safe mode, I
can get to the desktop, sometimes everything is okay, and sometimes
heavy network use will crash it again. Even when it's been stable for
hours it has always eventually spontaneously rebooted (at 3 in the
morning when it's asleep), and again it's unable to reach the desktop.
My soundcard - and SB Live! - is now not recognized automatically by
windows, and I've found through trial and error which of the SB Live
drivers to stick it with so that it works properly (I think). My network
card is up to "#3" in the device manager, so I assume that some cruft is
left around from previous installations. Likewise the soundcard drivers
reappeared when I put it back in a slot it had been in before.
This is making my computer unusable. I've researched the error but there
seems to be no single cause. Recreating the swap file does not help. The
soundcard ends up sharing an IRQ with either the video card or the NIC
no matter where I put it. I think it would be good to really start from
scratch somehow with the drivers, blast all of that setup back to where
it is at a fresh install, but I'm just guessing. Please, help.