Hi guys,
New here and this is sort of the last place i have come to try and find a solution to my rather annoying problem. As you can imagine with many BSOD errors/crashes i am at wits ends trying to sort this problem out.
Little back ground first to clear any questions up:
New pc:
*Quad core 2.4ghz
*Giga-byte motherboard (cant remember the model number off the top of my head)
*Nvidia graphics gts 8800 320 mb card
*currently 2gb corsair ddr2 ram
*Vista 64 bit all updates performed
*Running Avira home premium suite (all updates preformed)
*All drivers are updated via giga byte and Nvidia.
*ADSL2+ connection
*linksys modem (all updates performed)
*problem*
Lately have been getting many BSOD's when downloading files. Browsing appears to be fine, playing online games yet to be tested. Just downloading from websites causes a variety of BSOD errors.
I have had the following:
*Initially it was an afd.sys error
*After tweaking and updating some drivers it was a Bad Pool headers error
*And more recently it was a Drive IRQL not less ... ... error.
The problem only occurs when i am downloading and appears intermittent, as in i can download some files fine, others cause the BSOD with one of the above errors. There appears to be no pattern to the files i can download successfully and those that "cause" the error. The problem first occured the other day after i noticed windows performing a small update along with my antivirus, subsequently checked with my anti virus and there are no issues with their drivers, and no releases from Microsoft regarding their recent updates.
I have performed registry cleans, malware/spyware cleans (nothing came up). Virus scans nothing. Have tried analyzing the minidumps and researching them but all lead to either driver error or afd.sys error. I have done everything short of reformatting and i am afraid to do that simply because after a bit of research the errors are to do with *i think* drivers and networking!! Thus a reformat will fix until updates are performed (correct me if i am wrong in this).
I am at wits ends because i have exhausted every possible thing in my knowledge to 'fix' the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what i can do to fix the issue.
Apologize for the length of the post, trying to cram as much info to eliminate any questions.
Thank you for any future information/replies.
New here and this is sort of the last place i have come to try and find a solution to my rather annoying problem. As you can imagine with many BSOD errors/crashes i am at wits ends trying to sort this problem out.
Little back ground first to clear any questions up:
New pc:
*Quad core 2.4ghz
*Giga-byte motherboard (cant remember the model number off the top of my head)
*Nvidia graphics gts 8800 320 mb card
*currently 2gb corsair ddr2 ram
*Vista 64 bit all updates performed
*Running Avira home premium suite (all updates preformed)
*All drivers are updated via giga byte and Nvidia.
*ADSL2+ connection
*linksys modem (all updates performed)
*problem*
Lately have been getting many BSOD's when downloading files. Browsing appears to be fine, playing online games yet to be tested. Just downloading from websites causes a variety of BSOD errors.
I have had the following:
*Initially it was an afd.sys error
*After tweaking and updating some drivers it was a Bad Pool headers error
*And more recently it was a Drive IRQL not less ... ... error.
The problem only occurs when i am downloading and appears intermittent, as in i can download some files fine, others cause the BSOD with one of the above errors. There appears to be no pattern to the files i can download successfully and those that "cause" the error. The problem first occured the other day after i noticed windows performing a small update along with my antivirus, subsequently checked with my anti virus and there are no issues with their drivers, and no releases from Microsoft regarding their recent updates.
I have performed registry cleans, malware/spyware cleans (nothing came up). Virus scans nothing. Have tried analyzing the minidumps and researching them but all lead to either driver error or afd.sys error. I have done everything short of reformatting and i am afraid to do that simply because after a bit of research the errors are to do with *i think* drivers and networking!! Thus a reformat will fix until updates are performed (correct me if i am wrong in this).
I am at wits ends because i have exhausted every possible thing in my knowledge to 'fix' the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what i can do to fix the issue.
Apologize for the length of the post, trying to cram as much info to eliminate any questions.
Thank you for any future information/replies.
