Blue Screen of Death

[DevoutWankelist]

Yeah, that didn't work either. I never got any errors when i used to use kazaa etc., only with bit torrent. Will a new network card help?

[Plastic_Fork]

USB isn't as reliable as a cabled connection though plus it can bog down your system bus. If you get a new NIC, I would suggest a 3com - that's what I use and it hasn't given me issues yet. I do suggest putting the NIC on PCI slot one or two though since some NIC's take advantage of bus mastering and may help alleviate bottlenecks.

[DevoutWankelist]

Ok, so getting a new network card seems like the next thing I am going to try. :crossesfingers:

[Webmaster_Zeus]

Originally Posted by mrflip69

I had the same problem... does it only occur when your upload or download speed is getting maxed out? It always happened to me when I used eMule, Kazaa, or any other p2p/bandwidth intensive program. I tried switching slots to get the resources to free up, but no go, Windows XP automatically assigns the resources when it is first installed, and it's a major pain in the ass to get everything to work together correctly. (Thank you Plug and Play) I suggest you try using the USB connection on your Cable Modem if you can, and see if that works. If it does, then you probably need a better NIC or you can just stick with the USB connection. Don't worry about speed though, i've gotten up to 300kbps+ downstream over USB, and I don't have that lousy BSOD anymore.

That sounds to me like a bad driver/hardware. It takes two to tango. By that I mean either the network is partly rooted, drivers is badly written hence it doesn't provide a universal implementation of the network structure for the application layer, and or not very compatible with the combination of hardware you are running for your pc.

Remember any hardware is as good as its software (like application, os, drivers, etc). So in short its like the concept of "your chain is as strong as the weakest link".