having driver trouble, please help.

[Guest]

Ok, my computer was working incredibly fine until my friend came over and
accidently spilt soda on my front 2 usb ports. i quickly removed my wireless
internet card and dryed it off. after that i cleaned out the usb's and
everything else that was effected after shuting the system down. then i let
them dry. i put my usb adapter (or wireless card) back in and windows said
unknown device installing drivers. then it installed them and said i could
use it. i thought what? it was already installed. so i used my back usb
ports for the internet but... now my computer decides to spontaniously
restart. i asked windows they said it was a driver error. i uninstalled my
internet card and reinstalled and it is still doing it i do not know what to
do to fix this problem but my computer still restarts at random moments
sometimes. mostly on shutdown. it is realy starting to worry me. please any
one i need help.

 

[Guest]

this problem is occuring alot more often now than before and i am starting to
get worried. i could realy use some help.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 08:56:11 -0700, kip

this problem is occuring alot more often now than before and i am starting to
get worried. i could realy use some help.

Unplug those front two USB ports from the mobo (be careful to eyeball
how the leads go back; Red, White, Green, Black, like the Italian flag
on a black flag pole, sort-of). If better, dig there.

Firewall on? If not, and if pre-SP2, then you'd be swarming with bots
by now - they seem to outnumber the original Lovesan, LSASS etc. and
they use the same old holes to get in.

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[Guest]

yes yes. the usb's are unplugged but the problem i have still contains that
driver i installed. when i put the device in the malfunctioning usb it said
unknown device installing drivers. after it was done it said device may have
encountered problems try again. and then ever since then i have been using
the back usb's for the device. but i still get the serious error saying that
it was caused by a driver i installed. then it said my computer will
spontaniously restart as one of the effects. it doesnt restart alot. usualy
only during shutdown. im thinking i should just recover my system and re
install everything. i have tried restore point. didnt help. and i cannot
rollback the drivers because when the system's usb malfuctioned it found a
unkown device not my wireless internet.