Well, I recently had a run in with the TrustIn Contextual malware, after which I've been having problems with Blue Screens of Death.
I'm absolutely sure that everything related to TIC is gone from my computer, so there must be something else that it did.

Anyways, every time I wake the computer up from a hibernation, I get a crash after varying amounts of time usually 5 seconds - 1 minute after the desktop appears.

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The error message will show either NDIS.sys or bcmwl5.sys as the filename.

EDIT: I forgot, I also can't access google.ca or google.com, I get an UNABLE to connect error. However, I can get to google.co.uk
I'm not sure if this is related however it did start at the same time so I thought I'd put it in there.DLoad and run memtest on that machine...sounds like faulty RAM.

Let it run for a few hours...any error messages = bad RAM.

patio. 8-)Eh, I don't have a floppy drive, so I can't really run something that boots from a floppy. Is there an iso for it or something that can be burned to a CD?There are instructions for creating a CD. (Just another reason to always have an archaic floppy. )Well I let memtest run pretty much all night and nothing came up, so it would seem that the memory is just dandy.According to the error message the other 2 reasons can be a bad device driver or a damaged pagefile...
Have you added any hardware LATELY to this machine or are any DEVICES not working properly ? ?
To check this go to Control Panel / System / Hardware / Device Manager and check for yellow exclamation points next to devices...
Next thing would be to DLoad and run the HDD manuf. diagnostics to check for HDD errors. These are free and available at the manuf. site.

There still exists the possibility that the RAM is mismatched as well....have you recently added RAM ? ?

patio. 8-)I haven't added anything hardware related to this machine since I bought it, so that's why I originally figured it was bad drivers. Dell has a diagnostics tool built into the disk on its own hidden partition. So I ran that from boot, and the boot checking part didn't find anything.

After that it loads to a screen where you do specific tests related to what your symptoms are. So I ran the Blue Screen of Death tests and it didn't come up with anything. However, looking at the tests it doesn't do anything with device drivers, it just checks the L1 and L2 caches, main memory, and secondary memory.

So that's where I'm at right now.Does the Dell utility run a physical HDD TEST ? ?

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There still exists the possibility that the RAM is mismatched as well....have you recently added RAM ? ? [/highlight]Yep, the Dell utility runs a HDD tests.

I've already said I haven't put anything in the machine since I've gotten it. No memory, no HARD drives, no nothing. I have not added anything to it, at any time.Gotcha.

Did you also check this ? ?

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go to Control Panel / System / Hardware / Device Manager and check for yellow exclamation points next to devices...