[Rivera42]

This morning I left the room for a few minutes and returned to discover my computer had inexplicably BSOD'd , indicating I should restart if this is the first time it happened.

I had been doing the same things with the computer I do every day, namely I had my three messengers (yeah, three, because my friends don't all use the same service) and my email client logged on, Firefox open, flash-drive Weatherbug, and I think that's about it. I also have a Logitech QuickCam with the accompanying software installed but with the corresponding startups disabled via Scotty. I mention this because their software is less than perfect.

In any case, at the time I had a tab open with the Pandora radio player and a separate window with additional tabs open. The radio, IIRC, was on pause at the time.

That was the environment when I left the room - same working conditions as every day.

When I returned, the blue screen with the white words. I smacked myself in the head when I realized, five seconds after I pressed power, that I should have written down the onscreen text. Stupid!

However, I pulled this from event log:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 7/5/2008
Time: 9:37:47 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DATELINE420
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x100000d1 (0xba4d0000, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xba392e34). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini070508-01.dmp.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I wanted to attach the dump file in the hopes somebody can help try to peg down what happened. TechGuy's popup tells me it's an invalid filetype, so I made a zip file, and to be sure I also changed the original .dmp to .txt and attached that as well, and all you'd need to do is change the extension back to .dmp .

[Rivera42]

One month later, it happened again. I think it may have something to do with Pandora.com but I can't be certain. All I know is, that webpage was open at the time during both of these incidents.

Never mind the attachments, here are the details.

C:\DOCUME~1\DATELI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER3a77.dir00\Mini080408-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\DATELI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER3a77.dir00\sysdata.xml

BCCode : 100000d1 BCP1 : BA4D0000 BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000001
BCP4 : BA4A2E34 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

http://wer.microsoft.com/responses/R...1-046a43db20db

Onscreen Text of "BSOD" message:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Date Stamp 42B30CFD
ss.sys
BA4A2E34
base at
BA4A000

Can anybody help?

EDIT:
But wait! there's more:
Event Log:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 8/4/2008
Time: 11:56:40 AM
User: N/A
Computer: DATELINE420
Description:
Error code 100000d1, parameter1 ba4d0000, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 ba4a2e34.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 64 100000d
0020: 31 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 1 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 62 61 eters ba
0030: 34 64 30 30 30 30 2c 20 4d0000,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 31 2c 20 62 61 34 61 01, ba4a
0050: 32 65 33 34 2e34

Whatever this all means, it's way over my head. I'm kind of completely puzzled; my best guess is it relates to Firefox 3 and pandora.com but that's only a guess.

After spending what seemed like an eternity searching for answers online, the best I could find was this.

[EAFiedler]

Thread reopened per request.

[peterdiva]

Your first crash was caused by ss.sys. The second crash looks to be the same. See the following thread for a possible solution.

http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/4...d-problem.html

BugCheck 100000D1, {ba4d0000, 2, 1, ba392e34}
Probably caused by : ss.sys ( ss+2e34 )
Image name: ss.sys Timestamp: Sat Jun 18 01:48:45 2005 (42B30CFD)

[Rivera42]

wow...I never suspected the network card. That's really disappointing, since the card itself (or "external adapter" if you want to get technical) seems to provide excellent results otherwise. It definitely pulls in a stronger signal and gives better nominal Mbps than the factory installed internal card.

This BSOD has happened twice in the past week, once when closing programs in preparation for shutdown, and again just now while watching TV on Winamp with about 7 tabs open in two Firefox windows, and email and instant messaging clients running in the background. Oh, and let's not forget about Weatherbug-for-U3 also. These were all running at the time. I went to "change channels" in Winamp, and boom. Blue screen.

Recommendations?

[Frank4d]

You might ZIPand attach a couple of recent minidumps so we can see if it is still the same error.

[Rivera42]

Originally Posted by Frank4d

You might ZIPand attach a couple of recent minidumps so we can see if it is still the same error.

where are these stored? I forget.

(OS=XP Pro)

[~Candy~]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263

[Rivera42]

I've included the two most recent minidumps that I was able to locate. I changed the extension from .dmp to .txt so you might want to change it back.
please let me know if this worked properly.

[~Candy~]

I think you need to change them back

[Rivera42]

I changed the extensions back to .dmp and zipped em up again with WinRAR. I hope this helps.

[~Candy~]

I can't read/analyze them anyway but, it looks better now. Before it was just a txt of garbled garbage. These I can't open, but, I know the folks who can read the .dmp files will be able to.

[Rivera42]

I don't think I have the "debugging tools" installed that the kb article talks about.

[Frank4d]

Neither file is readable by the debug tool. Maybe a result of changing the extension.

[Rivera42]

When I get home I'll re-do the search and upload them directly.