Windows XP - No buffer space available

[fishsponge]

After a couple of days uptime on my WinXP SP1 machine, with all the latest Windows update patches all networking is lost, and anything i try to do reports back with "error: no buffer space available".

This happened last nite for the fourth time, and while i was half asleep, i think i was able to ping, but nothing else. No web sites, no telnet, no ssh, no ICQ, Yahoo, IRC, nothing...

To top it off, i can't find much info on google about it either, so i was hoping someone here had a clue.

Does Windoze have some log file somewhere that every little detail of windows' operation gets logged into, so i can find this exact error somewhere? Nothing crashed, so it won't have an event log, i don't think.

Any help is welcome!! Thanks in advance

[[Neo770]]

Well from my googling around it seems to happen to some people with to many IRC style programs running for extender periods of time.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/rema...flat~days=9999
http://trout.snt.utwente.nl/ubbthrea...s&Number=81907

[fishsponge]

well here's the thing.. i previously had Win2000, with the following apps running 24 hours a day:

- Norton Antivirus
- ZoneAlarm
- Windows Uptime
- MSN Messenger
- Yahoo! Messenger
- ICQ Pro
- PCAlert 4 (mobo temperature reporting etc...)
- DNET client
- MSI Live Update
- Usually a couple of IE windows too.

I then had a hard drive crash, but had all my installs backed up apart from ICQ and ZoneAlarm. I installed WinXP on my new hard drive, and installed everything i had, i also downloaded new copies of ICQ and ZoneAlarm.

This problem has been happening ever since i upgraded to WinXP.

Also, on some other forum posts i found, one guy listed everything he runs all the time, and another guy replied saying "the only program we both run is IE, and i still get this problem, even though we don't run any of the same programs".

confusing, eh?

[bailey]

ry running spybot and addaware .
I'm betting you will find a lot of junk with these two programs.

[fishsponge]

downloading now... i'll edit this post or add a new one when i've installed and run ad-aware...

i'm not gonna bother with spybot, purely cos i haven't heard of it. I'm sure it's very good though.

[fishsponge]

ok... i've now run ad-aware, and all it's discovered is Cydoor, plus lots of cached ads for it. I think this could be the ones displayed in the ICQ windows, but i'm not sure. I removed them anyway.

It also found a few tracking cookies, but everyone has them. Again though, i removed them.

any more ideas?? I don't know if this is still happening, but as soon as it does, i'll reboot and post on here again.