- Mar 22, 2006
- 1,046
- 0
- 76
Hey, I'm a new poster here, but have been reading these forums for some time. I've been asked to look at a Dell Dimension 2400 that keeps getting a blue screen when booting up. It won't make it to the logon screen, but just gives me the error in my title. There is no filename in the error code, and I think I've narrowed it down to the onboard NIC. It'll start up completely everytime I have my network cable uplugged, but if I plug it in I get a blue screen. I've downloaded the latest Dell drivers and installed those, and it worked for a while. Now I get the error message again. I know some problems with this message were associated with Kerio Firewall, which this PC has, but I disabled it in msconfig and it still gives me problems. I think this computer has had a virus on it as there were about seven copies of all the desktop and start menu shortcuts, and the desktop.ini files. After fixing all of this and running virus scan, I think it's all fixed but my blue screen. I've tried swapping out memory since a lot of people said that was the cause of their error message, but it doesn't affect it. Should I try another NIC in this computer or is there something else to try. I'd have done it already, but I don't want to waste my money or my friends if that's probably not the problem. Also, what is the best NIC brand for the money? I've always used Linksys but I found a lot of bad experiences with Linksys online. Thanks for any help you can give me.