BSOD while in sleep mode

gr8spangle said:

Windows 7 x64
original OEM-installed OS
both OS and hardware approx. 2 years old

Is this not correct, that the PC was delivered w/W7 installed from Dell?

Maxseven you are correct the computer came pre-installed with Windows 7 from Dell. Though it is interesting what zigzag points out about the driver's age compared with the Windows 7 release date.. I suppose Dell must have been testing on beta versions?

I have some good news to report. It *appears* that my wireless/sleep mode issues have been fixed. Many thanks to Jonathan for pointing out the Broadcom driver. Though at first it seemed to still exhibit the same BSOD behavior, after a reboot it seems that sleep mode is once again functioning as expected.

My only remaining question is whether or not my wireless router may have in fact played a part in this as well. It's an old D-Link model and I had rebooted the router shortly before I realized the issue was fixed. So it is possible that the issue may recur at some point in the future. If so, I will return here and post an update. In the meantime I consider this issue solved. Thank you all for your time and help!

Sure, Dell had advance access to W7 from the rest of us. I'd join their forum if I were you and press them for a fix.

I've seen alot of problems with Sleep, though mostly they go away after a reboot rather than resulting in a BSOD. I can only add that if you do NOT use the All In One's Wake-on-LAN capability (I use WOL all the time cuz I also use VNC to check-on computers at other locations in my house) then go to the adapter properties and turn that off.