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Random computer restarts (possibly due to tcpip.sys)


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Hello!

Sorry for such a delay, had a lot going on.

After doing all the driver updates, I still kept seeing all those issues.
I wiped out my hard drive and re-installed Windows 7 from scratch. After it started, I had a couple of hard freezes.
The error log showed the same exact critical error kernel as I was having prior to the reformat.
I am led to believe that now it might be caused by a hardware issue?
The built in diagnostic passed for everything and I even ran a memtest which cleared my RAM.
It's gotten to be very frustrating, and I'm fearing for the worst, like the motherboard or CPU.
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Is this a Desktop or Laptop? If Desktop, power it down then open the case and use a good, bright flash light to look at the tops of the capacitors on the motherboard. See if any are swollen or leaking. The tops should be absolutely flat. If yes then the board is bad and needs to be replaced.

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It is a desktop.

I opened it up and took a look at all of the capacitors. They are all flat and intact. No swelling or leaking or any residue anywhere around them.
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That doesn't mean the motherboard is good, just no physical evidence of a problem, which is good.

The Ethernet connection is on-board, right, not a Add-in card? If so, it would be worth trying a Add-in card, preferably not Realtek. The specs say you have 3 PCI Express x1 slots so something like this would work:

http://www.outletpc....FVIV7AoddTQArA' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Syba SD-PEX24009 10/100/1000Mbps PCI-Express X1 Gigabit Network Card

Other than that, I'm out of ideas. I'm going to ask the other folks here to take a look at your thread and see if they have any ideas.
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