windows 2k freezes until ethernet card removed

[douglas keel]

For the last couple of weeks my sysytem has been
experiencing lock ups which generally are only overcome
either by switching off or unplugiing my etherney NIC
card - I have a Dell Inspiron 5000e Win2K sp4, Norton AV
2004. I have run AV checks, ad-aware, spybot,hijack this,
and have defragmented the HD but nothing appears to be
obviously wrong. All help gratefully received. It played
up for a couple of days was OK for 10 and is playing up
again today.
Regards
Douglas

 

[Danny Sanders]

Do you actually use the Ethernet card?


DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

 

[douglas keel]

Yes, either as a pcmia card to connect or via a wireless
card - in both cases I get the system freezing and
removing the card often unfreezes it - if I reinsert the
card I sometimes also get a bsod saying starting physical
memory dump.
Regards

 

[Danny Sanders]

I have found that if a computer has a NIC without an IP address, the PC will
seem to freeze when looking for remote resources.

I had a computer with a modem and a NIC, the NIC did not have an IP address
and was not getting one via DHCP. When ever I connected to the Internet
using the modem, clicking on a link took forever to bring it up. As soon as
I gave the NIC a private IP address, the problem stopped.
The computer had to search each "network" it was attached to (NIC and Modem)
it seemed to start with the NIC. With no IP address on the NIC, the computer
had a time determining what "network" it was connected to. As soon as I gave
it a private IP address it stopped searching the "private" network for a
public IP address and used the modem.

Maybe this is happening in your case?


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

 

[Greg Stigers]

Spend some time looking at your BSOD Bug Code. See
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ddtools/hh/ddtools/bcintro_58tv.asp