Accessing shared folders causes BSOD

R

Ray

I have a desktop running Vista home premium and a laptop running XP
home. For the last week or so I've been getting BSODs on the Vista box
when I try to access its shared files from the laptop. The first time
I was copying files from the Vista box to the laptop via robocopy. The
most recent occurred when I tried to open the network under My Network
Places from Explorer on the XP box. A couple times it's happened
shortly after I turned on the XP box; I assume it was automatically
reconnecting a mapped drive, but I don't know.

Unfortunately the blue screen doesn't stay up long enough for me to
copy much of the info. I took a picture of the screen during one BSOD.
The error was DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. There was also the
following:
Technical information:
STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x4870666F, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x91F75F5B)
tcpip.sys - Address 91F75F5B base at 91F2E000, DateStamp 478ad415

However, the most recent BSOD didn't mention tcpip.sys.

After rebooting I can access the shared folders with no problems, at
least for a while.

As a check I tried accessing shared files from an old Win2000 box. It
didn't cause a BSOD, but it did cause Vista to lock up -- the mouse and
keyboard were dead, so I had to use the power button to force a
shutdown.

I've tried a bunch of things without success. Among others:
- Three different driver versions for the network adapter
- System restore to a time well before this problem first occurred.
This step totally hosed the network. Vista said it couldn't find any
network.
- Two different antiviruses and two different antispywares, run from
safe mode, found no problems.
- Disabled ZoneAlarm firewall and switched to Windows firewall.
- Disabled both firewalls.
- Reran the Norton removal tool, and removed all references to Symantec
from the registry.

Unfortunately I can't pinpoint when the problem actually started
because I hadn't tried to access shared files for a month or two.

About a week before the first BSOD I uninstalled Norton Security Online
with the uninstall tool, and installed ZoneAlarm and Antivir.
Disabling both of those has no effect.

I'm fresh out of ideas. Any help would be appreciated.
 

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