alright so i just did a check up on how to test my ram for issues, and it seems the Memory Diagnostics during boot can do the job. i did this two days ago, and no issues turned up, just double checked in the Events Viewer. so if there's something else..? otherwise i guess maybe it's not the ram.
however still getting BSOD with my youtube videos playing. seems somewhat random, like i may just start a video and boom, there it goes, or i may get through a few videos before it BSOD.
so been trying to find stuff to work on this since i'm not sure anyone's looking here. downloaded a debugging tool for windows, and it allowed me to access the minidump files.
it seems NETw5s64.sys is a probably cause for my BSOD, however every time i go to intel's driver and support assistance website to check my drivers, make sure they're all up to date, it always says my Intel Wifi Link 1000 BGN has an update available, but whenever i try to download the update, it just gives me the error message "This version cannot upgrade from the current older product. Please uninstall older product manually"
of course if i uninstall the driver for this, i lose my internet connection and can't download the new driver, and i haven't found anyway to save the new driver for a later install.
so any advice? cause i'm like 85% tempted to take this blasted computer to Best Buy and give it to their repair techs in the hope they can do something. maybe i need a new wireless card or something...?
Update or reinstall the drivers from Lenovo, they should have drivers that are better fit for your pc.
But it's an Intel driver, not Lenovo.
I'll give it a check then after my computer finishes backing up then. Thank you for the suggestion
well that took a lot longer than i expected....alrighty then, i was able to find drivers for my particular Lenovo laptop, but i'm not at all sure which one i need.
i see Networking LAN(Ethernet) which i'm presuming is internet with a cable, and of course Networking Wireless LAN, which is...well wireless internet. i see 11 options, 8 of which are Intel related. i've included an attachment text file with all the names of the available drivers i can download.
so i would appreciate some further advice on what to do from this point.
Removing non-Windows 7 drivers keeps only 4 options, however, with the info I have of your system I can't help you.
Please provide the URL of the support page, I can't find it.
https://download.lenovo.com/eol/ this is the web page i found the drivers on. i have a Laptop, Thinkpad SL series, Thinkpad SL510.
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