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Back on 29 June, I wrote a post detailing my experiences with a constantly locking-up Windows laptop. For no reason, it would freeze and need to be restarted. It would do this whether I was running one application or five, or even if the PC was just sitting there doing nothing.
By chance, I came across usbport.sys and changed the version of the file from the SP2 one back to the SP1 version. The result seemed to be good and that’s when I wrote the post.
This post is just to update you a little bit. Changing usbport.sys definitely helped the PC lock-up less and, initially, seemed to have solved the problem completely. That did not prove to be long-lasting, though. Whilst never going back to previous levels, the laptop did return to its bad ways. About once every four or five days of use I’d get an unexpected BSOD - usually with some reference to IRQL_NOT_ EQUAL - which seems to be quite common for Windows users.
My solution has been to change my old laptop for a nice shiny new iMac and it is a solution that has been 100% successful and I would recommend it to everyone.
