Vista Crashing :(

jellybaby · 09-10-2007, 22:32

Right then boys and girls.....need a bit of help with my laptop.

I bought a Toshiba Equium L40 10x last month. Came with Vista home premium.

It's this one for specs if required.

Anyway, everytime I start downloading for more than 5-10 mins the things blue screens. The error I get is related to igdkmd32.sys. Different errors each time, non paged area things and driver not equal zero or along those lines.

After a little looking about it seemed to relate to my graphics driver. So managed to find an update, and installed that. Still the same problem. So I thought I'd try being a little clever (just to assure myself it was the graphics driver) and decided to remove the graphics driver completely.
Running with basic graphics, I tried downloading again. This time it Blue screened but with a fault with my WLAN driver (which had never popped up before).

This happens with whatever method I try to download (IE7, Firefox, Bitcomet, grabit)

I'm at a total loss.

Can anyone help

TIA

mr_bo · 09-10-2007, 22:43

See if there is a bios update available mebbe? or m/b drivers?

jellybaby · 09-10-2007, 23:02

Cheers Mr bo.
Was meant to do that last night and forgot lol. Just updated the bios, any started some downloads going. So far so good. Will update in the morning, when hopefully downloads have finished and my system is still running

10-10-2007, 00:13

driver issue. Update your wireless drivers /try downloading with a ethernet connection instead of wireless to rule it out

jellybaby · 10-10-2007, 21:54

Ok...an update.
System stopped working after about an hour.....
Found Zings post and checked for new WLAN driver, found one and installed. Problem is, my internet slows down to a crawl, browsing is near impossible, downloads appaulling.
Rolled back to old driver, and my speed comes back up, but ,my system still crashes

Bit lossed to what to do now.

Richy99 · 11-10-2007, 11:45

igdkmd32.sys seems to relate to the graphics, have you tried updating the graphics drivers?

The Hitman · 11-10-2007, 12:41

If worst comes to the worst. Back up yer files and downloads and format the beast. Then reinstall Vista.

Wicked_and_Crazy · 11-10-2007, 12:57

Did it come with any support when you bought it?

11-10-2007, 13:01

try an interim driver? try changing your wifi settings with the new driver ,change the default broadcast channel

dragon · 11-10-2007, 23:13

Not a ralink wireless chipset is it?

I found the RALINK drivers had a tendency to BSOD the system if you hammered the connection.

Mind you that pertiuclar pc does have a problem that occasionally causes it to fall over anyway but it was much more prominent on vista (think the NF4 doesn't like ... something)

jellybaby · 15-10-2007, 20:53

Just a quick update.

After trying all suggestions, and hours of searching various solutions, nothing has helped.
So, for now, I have resorted to putting Windows XP on to the laptop.

Will try again when I have some decent time to faff about with it.

Thanks for all your help

AndrewJ · 15-10-2007, 21:54

Is it working in XP, if it is then we can rule out hardware as the problem.

jellybaby · 15-10-2007, 22:00

It is

Everything is working fantastic in XP

AndrewJ · 17-10-2007, 04:55

I would wait for service pack 1 before you move back to Vista, I'm running the beta and it's a huge leap forward for me.