Re: Windows XP Professional BSOD (tcpip.sys) on Startup

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 12:32:40 -0500

Hi,

The behavior you are describing is typical of a failing bit of hardware.
Swapping in known-good parts is often the way to discover which one it is.
This is especially so if the failures happen when the system is cold-booted.
When it is warm, or just restarted, the component is already operating
correctly. As the error mentions tcpip.sys, I would start with the network
card. 

-- 
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"A" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message 
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> My Windows XP Professional system has recently developed a problem. When I 
> start up the computer for the first time in the morning, it never boots 
> first time, usually second or third. Just as the logon screen is about to 
> appear, a blue screen of death appears, with an error. I can see the error 
> is to do with tcpip.sys. How can I get a copy of the error to show you 
> guys? The computer restarts a few seconds after the blue screen appears, 
> so I don't really get a chance to write it down. Once the computer has 
> been running for a while, I can restart it as many times as I wish, and it 
> starts first time without the BSOD.
>
> I thought the problem may be RAM related, but I downloaded the Microsoft 
> Windows Memory Diagnostic, which didn't find any errors.
>
> Incidentally, I built this computer myself almost 3 years back, and this 
> problem is only recent. It is an AMD Athlon XP 1900+ with 512MB Crucial 
> DDR RAM if that's of any use.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>

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