Hey!
I'm about to address my first problem which I didn't manage to solve on my own. This forum has helped me over the years and the amazing thing is, that I wasn't even a member then. But anyways, here is my problem.
Basically, it started to happen a month ago. My computer would randomly restart itself without any warning (mostly when playing games) It would restart normally and then would come with a windows message saying that, "The system has recovered from a serious error"...bla di bla bla..you know the score!
At first, I didn't bother to do nothin as my computer never restarted when used normally, it only did it durin playin games. But last week, it restarted itself when i was just listenin to some music on winamp and chatting on msn. This annoyed me so I decided to send the error report to Microsft.
The report suggested that it was caused by a faulty device driver. That was the only helpful thing about the report. Using that suggestion, I researched the internet and came across a program, "verifier" It helped me find the name of the driver. I did that because at first I thought it was my video or sound card causing the problem and i reinstalled the latest versions of those and updated my Direct X to version 9c.
So anyway, the verifier displayed this message when it found the faulty driver, "Io System verification error in NDIS.sys [WDM Driver 226] NDIS.sys+7010 at BA66D010"
I looked around the internet for a solution, because at the time this was happening, I was running my windows on SP2, one topic on Microsoft forum suggested that updating to SP3, may solve the problem, but unfortunately it didn't! However, i also found this website, which a guy was having the same problem. He managed to fix it by copying the file "NDIS.sys" from another computer running on SP2. He did so by renaming the original and replacing it with the new one from the other computer.
So, the reason for my long boring post (sorry) is to ask for other ideas and whether if i should do the same. Basically, anything to solve this annoying problem! My system spec's are available to see so please help me.
I'm terribly sorry for posting such a long post, i just wanted to give as much info as possible as I do not want to ruin my computer. Thank you for your time.
Regards,
Nav
I'm about to address my first problem which I didn't manage to solve on my own. This forum has helped me over the years and the amazing thing is, that I wasn't even a member then. But anyways, here is my problem.
Basically, it started to happen a month ago. My computer would randomly restart itself without any warning (mostly when playing games) It would restart normally and then would come with a windows message saying that, "The system has recovered from a serious error"...bla di bla bla..you know the score!
At first, I didn't bother to do nothin as my computer never restarted when used normally, it only did it durin playin games. But last week, it restarted itself when i was just listenin to some music on winamp and chatting on msn. This annoyed me so I decided to send the error report to Microsft.
The report suggested that it was caused by a faulty device driver. That was the only helpful thing about the report. Using that suggestion, I researched the internet and came across a program, "verifier" It helped me find the name of the driver. I did that because at first I thought it was my video or sound card causing the problem and i reinstalled the latest versions of those and updated my Direct X to version 9c.
So anyway, the verifier displayed this message when it found the faulty driver, "Io System verification error in NDIS.sys [WDM Driver 226] NDIS.sys+7010 at BA66D010"
I looked around the internet for a solution, because at the time this was happening, I was running my windows on SP2, one topic on Microsoft forum suggested that updating to SP3, may solve the problem, but unfortunately it didn't! However, i also found this website, which a guy was having the same problem. He managed to fix it by copying the file "NDIS.sys" from another computer running on SP2. He did so by renaming the original and replacing it with the new one from the other computer.
So, the reason for my long boring post (sorry) is to ask for other ideas and whether if i should do the same. Basically, anything to solve this annoying problem! My system spec's are available to see so please help me.
I'm terribly sorry for posting such a long post, i just wanted to give as much info as possible as I do not want to ruin my computer. Thank you for your time.
Regards,
Nav