Bsod

[leosdaddy2008]

Im trying to help my dad with is laptop. It BSOD during the boot process of windows xp. I think it may have been a recent driver update he made to his wireless card. That is when it started happening. I tried booting in to safemode but i can get in for a little bit but it still will BSOD before I can really do anything. Do you think this may actually be a hardware issue?

[glc]

On the F8 screen, choose disable restart on error so you can READ the bluescreen.

[RobbieG1977]

have you tried my 2 suggestions:

1. Boot from XP cd, then choose the repair option. Then restore to an earlier date that the NIC card was updated.

2. Boot into safemode without network support!

[leosdaddy2008]

Ok thank you all for your input. The wireless card that it turned out to be the problem is an internal verizon network card. The simple fix since my dad doesn't use verizon was to disable the device in safe
ode. So since I did that he has not had any problems.

[glc]

Is this a laptop? If so, you should be able to disable it in the bios.

[RobbieG1977]

How would you be able to disable it in the BIOS? I never seen that option when I was in my computers BIOS' before!

[glc]

Probably because you have never had a laptop with an internal aircard.........

[RobbieG1977]

ahh good point....