Toshiba Equium A60 Laptop crashes/blue screen when LAN Cable is in?

[shayglenn]

Hi all,
I have a Toshiba Equium A60 Laptop now for under a year.

Yesterday, my laptop started to crash… flashing a blue screen (No time to see what it says as computer Restarts too quickly).

I found that it only seems to crash when the LAN Cable is plugged in…e.g. If I start the Laptop it will start-up as usual but when it starts to communicate with the network/router (as I can see by watching the little blue Screens in the Task Bar Bottom right) it Crashes. I’ve tried a different port on the router but no luck.

My Network card is: Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC

It runs ok in Safe mode and doesn’t crash.

I updated the Driver but and it still does the same.

I then decided to restore my Laptop back to “Day One/Factory Default” via the Toshiba Recovery DVD.

When restored it worked fine all day (had internet access via the network) until I clicked: “Set up a home or small office network” in the control panel. It crashed again the same way…. Now it will continually crash as above.

Could this be a problem with my cable?
Please help…..Any ideas?

Thanks loads,
Shay http://www.techsupportforum.com/images/smilies/4-dontknow.gif

[bAdWaYz]

Yesterday, my laptop started to crash… flashing a blue screen (No time to see what it says as computer Restarts too quickly).

What ver of Windows does the computer use? If its windows XP and you can boot into safe mode try this. Boot into safe mode and right click My Computer then go down to properities and click it. The System Properties box will come up, look for the Advanced tab and click it. In the lower part of that box you will see Setup and Recovery with a Settings tab under it. Click the Settings tab, the Setup and Recovery box will come up, under System Failure you will see three check boxes. Uncheck the box beside Restart Automatically. Now click ok then apply and close everything with ok. Now when you reboot you should be able to read the error that comes up at boot. Make note of the error, it sounds like a corrupt system file or hardware error. Post back in here with the exact error if you could.