That is true... even if not connected or used as a modem.
Ray ________ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old. . . . . . . . . . Will Rogers On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Bruce Markowitz <[email protected]>wrote: > A bad modem can cause a BSOD. Remove it and see what happens. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laurence Spiegel" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:10 PM > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Troubleshooting BSODs > > > Re: Troubleshooting BSODs -- response below. > > -----Inline Message Follows----- > > On 09.02.2009 04:22, you, Laurence Spiegel wrote: > > > I've set a chkdsk to be done this evening. I have PC doctor, can I > > run enough tests from within windows or do I need to create a boot > > CD? (No floppy drive). > > Why don't you run the diagnostics on the bootable CD you can create in > Lenovo System ToolBox > (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67520 > )? > > Or, if it's not compatible with your TP40, the similar diagnostics found in > PC Doctor > (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-56222 > )? > > If yours is a hardware problem, you may find out about it (by running the > diagnostics on one of the above bootable CD) even if your Windows install > is > screwed up. > > Cheers, Dominique > > I created the CD and ran the tests overnight. I'm confused about the log > though - when I used F2, F3 to save the log the only entries were regarding > the modem, which supposedly failed. Nothing about the 12+ hours of system > tests. I also don't fing the log file on the hard drive - there's no > indicaton of where PC Doc placed it. So ... perhaps it detected problems, > but if so it gave no clear indication of what passed and what did not. And > the log file is nowhere to be found. I'm may be missing something obvious. > > I ran two spyware checks: Spybot, which complained about browser cookies, > and the free Google download Spyware Doctor, which flagged more cookies and > a few registry entries. Spyware doctor seems hyperactive tho; it seems to > flag anything related to advertising. I can understand why many people > avoid > all versions of Windows. > > I'm guessing I have an infrequent issue with hardware (based on seeing IRQL > NOT LESS OR EQUAL, which I've seen with hardware issues in other cases) and > perhaps some bit of software that's able to crash more than its own > processes. I truly despise unreliable computers, so I will put a few more > hours into rooting this out. Unfortunately neither PCs nor Windows were > designed to be highly reliable, so there's a shoveling sand aspect to this > pursuit. > > > ---- Larry > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
