Onetrack had a look at device manager...says Ethernet card is ok...I wonder does that show a history of faults or only if there are any at that moment in time,
SD I haven't tried all those ping tests yes...hopefully later...what I did see on the last crash was the MS error..the one where it asks if you want to send a report to MS,
It lets you look at some error info and mentions 2 files...
Local 1 temp wer99b8 dir00 IEXPLORE .EXE and
Local 1 temp wer99b8 appcompat txt
Do they mean anything to you.