thanks bob...
I grabbed the (broadcom) nic diagnostic utility AND the latest driver from
Dell...will put those to work.
thanks again,
mf
"Bob I" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Select d1 in right hand panel
> http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm
>
> The likely cause is a network adapter driver. What happened to the PC just
> before this started?
>
> mark4man wrote:
>
>> hello...
>>
>> my old machine...running XP Pro...that I sold to my friend...got a 'blue
>> screen of death stop error' message, titled:
>> DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
>>
>> it kicks off (goes black) before I can jot anything down...& I didn't
>> want to mess around w/ disabling autostart...so I grabbed the utility
>> 'BlueScreenView'.
>>
>> BSV showed me the following:
>>
>> STOP: 0x100000d1 (0x48422ecd, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x86203c88)
>> NDIS.sys - Address 0xf7698b6c base at 0xf7692000
>>
>> In the main view, where it (BlueScreenView) highlights probable problem
>> drivers, it highlighted the following:
>>
>> NDIS.sys
>> ntoskrnl.exe
>>
>> any ideas...??? (& I'm also searching myself)
>>
>> thanks again,
>>
>>
>> mark4man
>