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hey guys, when i hibernate my computer the bsod randomly appears, sumtimes it continues on hibernating and sumtimes bsod shows up...it says sumthing about ndis.sys how can i fix this?? bsod means blue screen of death if you dont know, thanks in advanced!

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The crash naming ndis.sys points away from the hibernate mechanism itself and toward the networking stack or a network-related filter/driver. was right to check the Event Viewer but those logs often lack the low-level detail needed. ’s hibernate toggle can reset a bad state, and ’s attempt to kill an ATI process won’t unload the kernel video driver — user‑mode processes are different from kernel drivers, so ending a process won’t fix a driver bug.

Key points and focused tests to narrow the cause:

  • Enable small memory dumps (Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> Write debugging info). Reproduce the crash and inspect the dump in C:\Windows\Minidump with a dump viewer or WinDbg to see the driver stack that led to the crash. Dumps give far more actionable info than Event Viewer entries.
  • Isolate the network stack: disable or unplug Ethernet and disable wireless adapters before hibernating. If hibernation succeeds, a NIC driver or a filter driver (third‑party firewall, VPN, virtual adapter) is likely the root cause.
  • Clean boot / selective services: disable non‑Microsoft services (msconfig) to rule out third‑party networking software without affecting core drivers.
  • Device power and adapter settings: check Device Manager -> Network Adapter -> Power Management and advanced properties (disable Wake on LAN, uncheck “allow this device to wake the computer”).
  • Update or roll back drivers and firmware: install the latest NIC, chipset and video drivers from vendor sites; consider BIOS updates only after backing up data and creating a restore point.
  • Last resort diagnostics: sfc /scannow for system file corruption and, if comfortable, Driver Verifier to expose a faulty driver (use with caution — it can provoke additional crashes).

Most likely culprits are a third‑party network filter, an out‑of‑date NIC driver, or a virtual adapter. Start with dump analysis and simple isolation (disable NICs and third‑party network software) before proceeding to driver/BIOS updates.

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Member Avatar for gemini4

It's strange that it does that when you go to hibernate. CHeck the event viewer. Are there any errors around the times you got the blue screen?

Member Avatar for flipboi15

no there was no errors....everything is fine, this is weird tho, but its kind of annoying

Member Avatar for prof.thakur

is ur problem solved.?
if not deselect the hibernate feature in the power settings
and then restart and again select it.

it may solve ur problem.

Member Avatar for flipboi15

alright its not fixed yet but i ended my ati video card in the task manager processes and my hibernation thing is 2 for 2, dunno if its gonna act up again, hope not!

Member Avatar for flipboi15

ok that didn't work, thanks anyways!! i wonder wat the problem is.....guys??

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