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Hey,

I have a T61 running Vista Business 32bit. Recently, when I am on the internet at school, which is through wired connections, I get a BSOD that mentions the ndis.sys driver. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? The IT guys at my school don't know anything when it comes to vista. Also, I notice that every time this happens, I loose about a gig of hard drive space. Where is that going and how do I get it back?

Thanks

All I can suggest for the ndis.sys is make sure you have the most recent driver for your network card - remember, this will be a different driver than the one for your wireless card. The hard drive space is being used by a memory dump done whenever there is a BSOD. A file named MEMORY.DMP is written to your windows directory equal in size to your installed RAM (1 gb?). You can safely delete all of these files, but they can also be analyzed by tools available from the microsoft support site to possibly get more info on the crash. You can turn off the creation of memory dump files in the SYSTEM control applet (in control panel), on the startup and recovery tab.

fortzum wrote:snip....Also, I notice that every time this happens, I loose about a gig of hard drive space. Where is that going and how do I get it back?....snip

why my available HDD under Vista is decreasing.

For the BSOD, update your BIOS, graphics card and network drivers to the latest available versions:

Drivers and software - ThinkPad T61, T61p.

do you have turbo memory?