My Laptops wireless took a crap? Blue screen of death.

So here's the deal I own a Sony Vaio notebook vgn-s150. My problem is when i was out at wifi hotspots my girlfriend was messing with the laptop and deleted all the temporary internet files. I have had this laptop for 2-3 years. I dont have any of the recovery cds that it came with or any crap like that.

What happens is my computer works perfectly fine until i hit the WIFI switch on my laptop. Once I do this it connects for 1-2 minutes maximum, then it goes to a blue screen(blue screen of death) and restarts 2 seconds later. I was able to try it enough times to write down all of the crap it says from the blue screen of death since I tried it many many times trying different things. Running virus scanners and what not.

I think some of the wifi drivers might be gone? I was wondering if their was a way to install these drivers to put on my laptop so the wifi would start working again? Also, I was wondering if there was a factory settings restart thing on this laptop. Since I seen some of the newer sony's/dell's have that option where you can take the image from the hard drive to make it all back into factory settings. I was wondering if my laptop has this?

I am not sure if this laptop has this setting, I'd rather just fix the internet and not have to "reformat" or "factory settings".

So now heres what the blue screen of death says:

BCCode: d1 bcp1:
031c6e33 bcp2:
0000000002 bcp3:
000000000 bcp4 f80c0a68
OSVer: 5_1_2600 SP: 1_0
product 768_1

c:\windows\minidump\mini061807-21.dmp

c:\documents\home\locals1\temp\wer1.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml


Any help would be great or if anyone would sell me a recovery cd so i can save my files I would pay a few dollars for it.

 

I'm in a bit of a rush - promise to answer tommorrow - PM me if I forget or don't.

 

First thing first, turn off the auto reboot for when you have a blue screen of death (bsod). To do this, go to Control Panel > System, then go to the Advanced tab. Click on the Startup and Recovery Settings button. Under the System Failure section, un-check Automatically Restart. Then Oks to exit out.

Now as for your wi-fi issue... since you have a vgn-s150 I'd guess you have the Intel 2200BG card, maybe Intel 2915ABG. Shouldn't really matter since they use the same driver. Go to Intel's website and download their driver, or click link below.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13002/eng/V11.1.1.0_XP32.EXE&agr=N&ProductID=1637&DwnldId=13002&strOSs=All&OSFullName=All%20Operating%20Systems&lang=eng

Probably best if you first backup your wi-fi profiles and then uninstall the current drivers. Reboot and then install the new ones.

As for other possible issues, if you want, look at your Event Viewer to possibly see what type of error shows up around when the computer crashes. To access this, its in Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer. When in the Event Viewer, check the System and Application logs for errors, errors are X with red circle around it.

 

man i havent even seen the blue screen of death since pentium 4 and i beat the heck out of my c2d, still never have that problem... i could say that i miss it