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    Network driver causes BSOD

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by motoKniGhT, Apr 19, 2010.

  1. motoKniGhT

    motoKniGhT Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sometimes when i close the lid the computer wont shut down and keeps running, all the lights are off except WiFi and the FAN keeps running. When i open the lid, i see black screen with some white lines showing up, then i need to press power button to shut down the laptop. I have debugged these crashes and I saw that the problem is with network drivers. So i tried updating them and uninstalling them, but it doesn't solve anything. These crashes happens randomly and from what i have heard utorrent might cause them. Has anyone else had these crashes and how to fix them ? :)
     
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    nikolay.t Notebook Consultant

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    Can you provide the exact BSOD error. I had a similar problem and the error was something like 0x0000050, not sure, though.

    Then I found a bug fix for this error provided by Microsoft and indeed it was related to the network drivers. Once installed the problem was solved.

    Nikolay
     
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    DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE and the code is 0x0000009f which was caused by driver: ntoskrnl.exe
     
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