Vista x64 BSOD

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Yeaup.

Just booted back up about 2 minutes ago.

After telling the computer to Safely Remove my thumbdrive (16GB OCZ Rally2), I unplug it (have to go behind the desk).

Get back to the lovely BSOD.

Reboot, find out my wireless card seems to have disappeared.

I guess DLink's WDA-2320 Wireless G card (internal, PCI) and OCZ's Rally2 16GB use the same I/O Numbers/Ports..

Which should not happen in today's world, but I guess Microsoft did not think many people would have so many devices connected to their systems these days.
 
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ooh, just noticed I lost Auto-Hide (for the Start bar... and it's still fucking checked in the options).

UPDATE: fixed; restart (and with a suggestion read online, deleted the contents of the Prefetch folder, don't worry, Vista rebuilds as necessary).
 

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Second BSOD within an hour.

Absolutely stumped, guessing that one of the Windows Updates messed with wireless settings, as well as drivers, as I cannot install drivers for the wireless card anymore.

So, I'm at my mom's, downloading new BIOS and Wireless Drivers for my computer.

Other than that, I am pretty much fucked for using that computer to do any work (thus no pay)
 

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Did you try restoring it to a previous working date

Yeah.

Wireless drivers still would not work with the card they were designed for, because Vista reported the drivers to not be compatible for the card.

Also, I was able to view the installed updates (the culprit) but to uninstall them was an impossibility. Therefore, I just said fuck it.

I went to my buddy's house, traded the functionally capable card (i installed it in his computer, got the drivers automatically, it fucking worked.. :mad) for another dLink card he had, brought it home, installed it without issue.

Problem: ISATAP (Provides IPv6 crap over IPv4 or something like that) and Windows Update "updated" my wireless drivers, which did not have a roll-back option.

Fix: get a new wireless card not of the same model as the "non-working" one
 
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