Recent content by Vir Gnarus

What's the problem now, again? I'm having trouble understanding what the issue is now. Is there a problem with installing something?

Hopefully his wifi problems are not conducive of more underlying issues with the motherboard, in which case he would need to return the system and get it fixed - provided it's under warranty. Normally when I see certain components bug out on the mobo, it means the mobo itself is biting the dust.

I'm not entirely sure the Windows updates are responsible. I know sometimes they can release buggy updates that cause BSODs, which you'll want to update your system again to ensure that those bugs are taken care of. If you want, turn on Driver Verifier then restart system and let it crash the...

We'll see how this goes for now. I do know that on rare cases software installed for motherboards have bugs inherent in them that can trigger odd WHEA bugchecks like what you were experiencing. That's why I usually recommend to anyone that any software that came with their motherboard should be...

Sometimes there's a bug in the wifi driver that never gets resolved which cripples it. I'm not sure your wifi drivers are updated so make sure they are, along with everything else on your motherboard, since those can affect stability as well (this includes BIOS). There's also a number of times...

I'm conflicted. The crashes are almost all saying that an issue occurred with an attempt to read an instruction in the CPU's L1 cache. As in the CPU has a problem. However it just seems so coincidental that this has all just started happening when you installed a hard drive, which I would assume...

If your system is stabilizing from being disconnected from network, then try this: first test system stability using just wireless connected. After a while of using it under those conditions, turn wifi off then switch to wired ethernet and test using that. See which one is causing the problems...

I googled the ACPI issue and it appears it's common with ASUS laptops especially during instances of idle when the system lid is closed. I'm not sure it's relevant to this. What kind of freeze are you experiencing? Does the cursor not move when you move the mouse? Does the system become...

The MotioninJoy driver is reponsible for both crashes. I've seen this thing crashes computers numerous times. Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, the developer of the driver hasn't worked on it since last year, and it looks like updates for it are very infrequent. No doubt he's got a bug in...

Welp, I reckon computers still have a good bit more magic behind them than I'm aware of. Talk about odd. Oh well, glad to hear it's ok now. Was the Killer service something you suspected or were you doing a bit of trial and error?

It has to be one of those things. Even though he may of cleaned up your drivers, that doesn't resolve the problem if the hardware is the underlying issue. I say the guy at the shop just looked at your system, saw the driver mess, and immediately assumed that was the problem. Personally, I...

That is very weird that it would produce WHEA crashes. Personally I'm still not convinced, so I'll keep alert on this thread for a while.

Hmm, I recommend you follow through with what others have mentioned about the access mode setting on the BIOS. Usually it can have any of several settings such as IDE, Compatibility, SATA, RAID, AHCI and ATA. Set to Comp, IDE or ATA. Sometimes it is not called "Access Mode" setting but something...

Some questions: Is DBAN successfully cleaning the drive but you can't install XP afterwards? Where in the XP installation does it have a problem? Is it consistently the same spot during the installation? How are you formatting the drive, with the Windows XP installer? Is it the only...

Update your wifi driver, as it's dated Jan 4 2011 and it's showing up as the most suspect driver responsible for the crashes in every crashdump I've looked at. Also update your BIOS too if that's available.