When my HP Pavilion desktop computer was new in 2005, I installed a wireless card and hooked it up to my home network. Everything seemed to work well except every 2-3 days, the computer froze with a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) Nothing showed in the error logs. Sometimes it took 4-5 days before it would freeze and sometimes it would freeze in 1-2 days. Randome length of time before it would freeze.
It took me quite awhile to troubleshoot the problem because I sometimes had to wait a week to see if the computer would freeze again or not (I could not force it to happen)
The culprit was the wireless card - the driver. While it worked, it would freeze when, I assume, it was refreshing the IP address. Once I updated the driver for the wireless card, no more BSOD . After four years, I can safely say the wireless driver solved the problem of the random BSOD problem.
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