well, this is strange, if i unistall lime wire, or if i delete the .limewire folder, my limewire works perfectly, but if i restart/turn off my computer, the problem returns...

the last thing i see lime wire does, is trying to connect digital acces protocol


help plz!
thx!

Several weeks on this.....

Xp SP2 Only.

Select F8 on boot to switch off the automatic reboot.

Run and wait for the reboot but......

You will then see the error on the blue screen....

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

and the killer

Atapi.Sys

Check the microsoft database but ignore the suggestions only if you are mad like me....

Search for Atapi.sys in the C:/windows driver folder.

Delete it (keep it in your waste bin just in case).

No warrenty implied and keep them backup disks close....

Just to add something. Don't know if it helps or not. I have the same problem with Limewire giving the bsod and rebooting. A couple things I noticed however. It only happens when I am connected to the internet through a wireless connection. If I disable the wireless connection and attach to the internet via wire into the router, I have no problems. This indicated to me that there might be a setting for the wireless router which needed to be changed. It was a linksys router. i have susequently moved. The new apartment already had a Netgear router set up. I was able to use Limewire through wireless with no problems. The person who controls the router then set up a password for security. It was originally unsecured. I stsarted getting the reboot again. The Linksys router also had password protection. Don't know if some of this is coincidental, but Limewire definately worked fine going through a wire connection to the router. It has only rebooted (for me) when using wireless.

Driver equal and less than zero problems are both MS Windows problems, possibly related to x64. Standard Windows Update should solve those issues.

The Limeware restarts my PC problem is a little different.

I have NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 ethernet. The actual driver seems to be the problem when Limewire Pro 4.12.6 and Java 1.5.0_03 are used. I've been hesitant to upgrade due to the "Pro" part.

Java 1.5.0_03 has known bugs and security issues. I've seen in other forums that you can't update the JRE without updating the Limewire software. This specific JVM (and about the 7 revisions after it) had memory resize problems.

The next step is to make sure you have the latest and greatest nic card drivers from your vendor. My computer restarts pretty regularly (without a blue screen) when I have 8+ downloads with 10 hosts each with "Turbo-Charged" connection enabled. There's some interaction between the hardware, the driver, Java, and Limewire that gives an fault.

The third step is to understand what you are downloading. There's a lot of junk and trojans out there. Very old virus scanners with "smart" behavior or script detection will shut a computer down immediately if there's suspicious activity.

Hope this helps.

gbolcer

This thread is well over two years old.


UK Bob

Thanks, but it just happened this morning, so I thought I'd add my two cents.