Win 2000 freezes absolutely when network card enabled at bootup

[MontyPalmer]

Hello All-

A client has a win2k SP4 box that connects wirelessly using a Linksys WMP55AG card to a Linksys WRT54G. I have scanned the box with Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware, HijackThis, and AVG. I have emptied all temp directories and caches. I used RegTweak to address registry inconsistencies, and have run LSPFix and FixWinsock. Now, if I boot the machine with the network card enabled, it connects fine to the router, gets internet access and runs fine, for about 2 minutes. Then, the machine freezes and becomes 100% unresponsive. The only way to resolve this is to power down explicitly. Now, if I boot up and disable the network card, even after it has connected, then the machine does not freeze. And, if I wait a few minutes, and then re-enable the network card and allow it to connect, it does and yet it does NOT freeze. At all. It has been useful now for over five hours. If I restart the machine with the card enabled, it will freeze again after two minutes. I do not think that it is an issue with the card as it would freeze regardless of when the connection is made. There are also no entries in the event logs that pertain to this in the least.

If there is any help out there I would truly appreciate it, as would my client.

Thanks,

Monticus.

Monty Palmer
President
Paltechs

http://www.paltechs.com

 

[electronicsfreak]

First off just for checking run this online scan below.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Also after running that even though you have used hijack this please run it again in normal mode and post the log on here.

 

[MontyPalmer]

I am going to have to ask them to run it and email me the log. Thanks heaps and when I have more info I will post it.

Thanks.

Monty Palmer
President
Paltechs

http://www.paltechs.com

 

[MontyPalmer]

It turns out that they had attached a camera and a scanner, but had not installed the drivers. I started unplugging things to swap out the nic but realized that I needed to install those drivers first, so I reconnected everything, and restarted the machine. The new hardware installation routines began, and voila, no more issues.

Thanks all for the help! Happy Holidays and New Year!



Monty Palmer
President
Paltechs

http://www.paltechs.com

 

[electronicsfreak]

Happy Holidays to you to and thanks for replying with what the problem is. That always helps in the future. Stay Safe and Merry Christmas.