Problems with R61, crashes, BSODs, etc...

[slname]

I have the R61 for nearly 3 months now, and can't seem to get rid of the problems.

It came with Windows XP preinstalled and with 2GB of RAM, 1GB was added extra (there was some special offer to buy another gig of ram rather cheap).

First problem that happened was that when I ran uTorrent, even if it was not downloading even nearly at full speed, trying to browse using Firefox was a total drag, it was either very very slow, or unusable completely, and often the computer would freeze. After some digging, I found the lvllord patch, and patched the tcpip.sys file from 10 to 50 attempts for the TCP/IP connections. That solved my surfing problem, as I was now able to browse the Internet and do other stuff with my bandwith.

Unfortunately, I don't remember whether the first BSOD came before or after the patching, I just remember it happened. I also didn't save all the minidumps, but I have the latest 4-5.

I noticed that the cause of my BSODs were different, ie there was an ISO I was trying to mount with Daemon tools, and every time I'd try that, I'd get a BSOD (and i needed to to a system restore here, as this one was in a constant loop, it'd restart the computer, give the BSOD again, restart again, etc). So I uninstalled Daemon tools, as googling it said that it does give BSOD errors... Another thing that apparently gave me problem was NetLimiter 2.x, it gave me a couple of crashes so I got rid of that too. Another thing was some Roxio burning driver, which came preinstalled with all the ThinkVantage software.

Thinking that maybe the cause for all these errors was that I had way too much processes running when starting Windows (80ish), I decided to make a clean Windows install (not from the R&R discs), downloading just the Ethernet drivers and the ThinkVantage system update software. Well, again, I had to patch the TCPIP.SYS file, and everything was fine for almost a month, until a couple of days ago, when I was watching a football streaming on TVU and another BSOD came up (I think it was the tcpip.sys). Again, I removed the TVU (mind you, it worked for like an hour with no problems). Yesterday, I was watching another game, using TVants, uTorrent was opened, and I decaded to have a game of PES2008. After a couple of goals, the game just froze (i tried ctrl+alt+delete, didn't help), and after trying to switch to another opened program (with alt+tab) after a little while, it gave me another BSOD, this time it was something like nsv4_mini.sys, the graphics card driver.


I'm going quite crazy here, as memtest gives me no errors on my RAM (which I was kind of hoping was the problem), PCDoctor5 says my hardware is fine, I'm getting all sorts of BSODs (which is annoying because it's obviously giving me no insight on what the real problem is), and basically I'm stuck with an unstable computer.

Basically, instead of freezing when it has problems, like my previous computers used to do, my computer just pops BSOD and leaves me in desperation.

I'm typing this from my old(er) PC, I have all the same software on it as I have/had on the laptop, and it's giving me no problems whatsoever, no Daemon tools problems, no NetLimiter problems, no TVU problems, nothing. It even has some "tcpip has reached the maximum nubmer of attempts" warnings, but that doesn't give me any trouble surfing, or freezing the computer.

I'm tempted to take the computer for a service, but I honestly don't know what to say and if they'll find anything wrong with it, or how long it'd take (as I really need that laptop).


Any ideas?

[ryengineer]

Get it checked up by repair center.

Just curious what happens when you don't install any torrent software and therefore no patches?

Although the BSODs and freezes you mentioned reminded me of my 1st experience with Intel's Turbo memory but it won't apply to your situation even if you've or had one installed since you're using Windows XP.

[slname]

as i said, i don't recall what was going on prior patching the tcpip.sys

i now reverted it back to the original file and decreased the maximum number of parallel connection attempts from the default 8 to 5 in utorrent. so far, i've had about 3 tcpip (event id 4226) warnings in the event viewer, but i've managed to surf normally, with utorrent up and running. i'll see how that goes.