As the result of a system crash (bluescreen) during Sleep mode, a box (Ethernet networking problem) led me here. Earlier today it also crashed during Sleep but only produced the "Windows is checking on it" box. About a month ago a box from Vista said, "Follow these steps to troubleshoot problems with NVIDIA Graphics Driver." I was using the most recent version (175.16), so I did nothing.Both crashes happened after I put it in Sleep mode.I use the Ethernet for my broadband modem (Netopia).There have been crashes (3-4 a week) with no informative boxes (other than those two mentioned above) for the last six months. I have had the system up for a year. A check with the Event Viewer showed nothing that I could pin anything down with. I think I am up to date on everything: Windows Update, nVidia, BIOS, Asus, etc. I have disabled various features and the crashes still occurred. Here are the details: Vista Ultimate 64 bit, v. 6.0.6001 SP1 Build 6001AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+BIOS Pheonix LTD Asus M2N32-SLI Premium ACPI Revision 1002 3/7/2008 (Asus MB)SMBIOS v. 2.4RAM 4GBEVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB SLI ReadyTwo monitors: Acer AL2223WD and Samsung 174VPSU: OCZ 1010WTwo external HDs, one eSATA and one USB.Netopia 6M modem, using Ethernet.I'm thinking my next step would be to go 'way back on those nVidia drivers. Any other thoughts?

When you initially loaded the motherboard drivers on the computer during the installation of Vista, the nVidia setup program asks if you want to load some sort of nVidia LAN manager or firewall (or something worded similarly) Did you install that? Or did you only install the drivers and move on to the next item? I ask because I have several nVidia based motherboards and have always skipped the installation of the additional components and have never had issues. I would suggest uninstalling ALL your nVidia motherboard drivers and, when you re-install them, do not select the additional components.

Hi jjstewart, To solid troubleshoot this kind of kernel crash issue, we need to debug the crashed system dump and analyze the related source code if needed. Unfortunately, debugging is beyond what we can do in the forum. I'd like to recommend that you contact Microsoft Customer Support Service (CSS) for assistance so that this problem can be resolved efficiently. To obtain the phone numbers for specific technology request please take a look at the web site listed below: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;PHONENUMBERS If you are outside the US please see http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers. In addition, as this is a NVIDIA driver crash issue, you also can contact NVIDIA to address this issue. NVIDIA Support. http://www.nvidia.com/page/support.html Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information. Hope it helps.

Since there was a 4-6 month period with no crashes after I made the initial installation from the mobo set, I think that would indicate that the cause was not from anything on the original installation setup. I think the only thing I selected was the Control Panel. I need that.