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I'm not entirely sure if this is the right group to post this in but anyway...
About a week or two ago my computer suddenly developed a problem out of
nowhere. As a brief introduction I connect to the internet through a Linksys
wireless USB adaptor which connects on startup.
Occasionally when my computer is starting up it will make a connection and
then suddenly reboot. Once it's started up again it brings up the message
saying my machine has suffered a critical error, sends the report etc. and I
get a page saying that it's a device driver error. Now given when it occurs
it would seem logical that the problem is with my adaptor drivers but prior
to this problem first occuring I made no change to the drivers so it would
seem a little strange that the driver would suddenly become corrupt out of
nowhere.
I've tried updating the driver following this but once I did it didn't work
at all so I had to roll back to the previous one which had previously worked
flawlessly.
I've had another problem happen during startup which I can't help but think
is somehow connected. When it's connecting and Messenger is trying to log on
my start menu/toolbar will freeze and I won't be able to open anything on my
desktop (Though I can open Task Manager with Ctl+Alt+Del). When I try to
restart my machine through Task Manager it won't work so I have to physically
turn my machine off.
I'm not entirely sure if this is the right group to post this in but anyway...
About a week or two ago my computer suddenly developed a problem out of
nowhere. As a brief introduction I connect to the internet through a Linksys
wireless USB adaptor which connects on startup.
Occasionally when my computer is starting up it will make a connection and
then suddenly reboot. Once it's started up again it brings up the message
saying my machine has suffered a critical error, sends the report etc. and I
get a page saying that it's a device driver error. Now given when it occurs
it would seem logical that the problem is with my adaptor drivers but prior
to this problem first occuring I made no change to the drivers so it would
seem a little strange that the driver would suddenly become corrupt out of
nowhere.
I've tried updating the driver following this but once I did it didn't work
at all so I had to roll back to the previous one which had previously worked
flawlessly.
I've had another problem happen during startup which I can't help but think
is somehow connected. When it's connecting and Messenger is trying to log on
my start menu/toolbar will freeze and I won't be able to open anything on my
desktop (Though I can open Task Manager with Ctl+Alt+Del). When I try to
restart my machine through Task Manager it won't work so I have to physically
turn my machine off.
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