Help computer keeps rebooting!

Richeh · 9 Jan 2007 at 23:58

Right, I haven't touched anything inside my PC for about 2 years since I stopped playing games. Today however I got a new wireless router and Netgear 54MB wireless PCI card. All was going fine and the connection had been up for almost 12 hours, was just chatting on msn, azureus downloading in the background, surfing the net and had windows media player open listening to music. All of a sudden computer just makes repeating sound noise and reboots.

Ok I thought, checked event viewer and had this:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000007e (0xc0000005, 0xf6737e32, 0xf7922b08, 0xf7922804). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini010907-02.dmp.

Continued as normal and it did it again within a few minutes same error. Anyone have any ideas, naturally I assume its the PCI card but its in there fine and was working fine for 12 hours.

Please help!

daven1986 · 10 Jan 2007 at 00:00

run memtest, could be bad ram.

Hellsmk2 · 10 Jan 2007 at 00:10

If you've just installed a new NIC, then your first port of call should be with that. Try uninstalling/ reinstalling it. If that fails, remove it and see if the problem persists by leaving your PC on for a few hours.

I'd also check the temperature in your BIOS. The beeping you are hearing could be the warning sound set in your BIOS for when it is overheating.

DarkShadow · 10 Jan 2007 at 00:23

Try these:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/DevTest_g/hh/DevTest_g/t08_bugs_END_1cb45e4e-59aa-425c-a233-1038da75ea22.xml.asp

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-51504-BSOD-0x1000007e-frequent-restarts.html

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1926367.php

Richeh · 10 Jan 2007 at 00:34

Thanks its definately the network card, I unchecked automatic restart for errors and took a picture of the BSOD.

Unfortunately don't have anywhere to upload it but part of the message is:

WG311v3XP.sys which is the network card. I have the latest drivers installed, but will reinstall now to see if that makes any difference.

Any help or experience in the mean time is appreciated.

Edit: Update, just uninstalled it and reinstalled it, also moved it to another PCI slot just in case. Hopefully will be fine!

Richeh · 10 Jan 2007 at 01:13

Right, uninstalling and reinstalling didnt work, still getting BSOD. So uninstalled and installed again using the older drivers that netgear have on there site. Heres hoping. Not exactly sure what I can do if it does it again though? Anyone have any ideas :s

DarkShadow · 10 Jan 2007 at 01:14

That's pretty strange, how about a restore point?

Richeh · 10 Jan 2007 at 01:15

How do you mean, I installed it this morning and it worked fine, its just now its started rebooting. I'm not entirely sure how a restore point would help.

Ok scratch that, just rebooted with old software. Now i'm really unsure what to do. Help please!

Richeh · 10 Jan 2007 at 10:29

Right, ive near enough given up on this, have had a look around the net and apparently the version of the PCI card I have v3 has some incompatibility issues with XP SP2 which netgear seem to refuse to acknowledge. I have tried all there software, tried just using the WZC etc to no luck.

I bought it from OcUK. Do I have the right to return it under faulty items as it is not an error on my part.