Zlatan

Recently when playing a game, my computer just restarted itself, without any visible cause. After powering on again, it kept restarting itself seemingly every 10 minutes. After disabling automatic restart on system error, I managed to see the blue screen which said driver_irql_not_less_or_equal_fix relating to nids.sys.


After reading that it was probably about drivers for the LAN controller, I tried to find new drivers, even though if the same drivers I used worked for two years and I did not add any new hardware, and did a clean install of XP, but nothing worked. Finally, I thought it might be a hardware fault, and when I unplugged my cable modem from it, the restarting stopped and everything seemed normal.


I connected the cable modem via usb cable and everything worked fine. However, now when I try to download a torrent the same blue screen will appear again.

After figuring out what the problem was, I did a clean reainstall ow Xp and did not install the ethernet drivers, and even disabled it in BIOS, but it didnt help, every time I try do download a torrent it restarts.


The motherboard is an Abit KN8 with integrated ethernet controller. Is there anything I can do to stop this error, physically remove the controller for example, or will I have to buy a new mb if I want to download a torrent again?


Thank you for your help