Recent content by kbar918

I just removed McAfee with the Removal Tool, and immediately upon restart all of my problems have been solved. Thank you very much for that suggestion Elmer, and thanks to Saltgrass as well for all of your help the past few days. At the very least a bunch of my drivers are up to date now. :)...

Thank you, I've started to install some of these drivers (it's a slow process using another computer to download and transfer), no progress so far but I did figure something out: if I run Windows in safe mode with networking my internet connection works fine. I'll update all the drivers you...

Scan showed no results - the machine did finally crash again though, so I guess the drivers I updated were not the cause. Unfortunate, but sort of good since it may be the case that finding the problem causing the crash will also fix the network problems and strange program behavior. Here's...

Thanks, I reinstalled the Realtek network adapter driver but alas, my internet connection is still not working properly and I'm continuing to get strange errors from several programs. You are correct - I haven't had another BSOD since updating the chipset drivers. I do indeed know what the...

Today my PC BSOD'd while I was in class, the message was a DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE. This first crash did not create a dump file, leaving me to believe it was very serious. After the crash, the computer behaves very differently. Many of my programs still work, but the internet connection...