[BUG] ESS & eventviewer driverpacket ERRORS

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XP Pro SP2 (OEM) clean instal (incl critical updates)
ESS 3.0.566
Netgear GA311 gigabit adapter (v6 drivers)

as soon as ESS is installed, my "event viewer/system" starts logging lots of these errors:

-{ Quote: "A driver packet received from the I/O subsystem was invalid. The data is the packet.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp." }-
-{ Quote: "
0000: 0c 00 e0 00 0e 00 00 00 ..à.....
0008: a0 13 b5 54 3c 2d c8 01 .µT<-È.
0010: 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 @.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 04 00 4e 00 ......N.
0020: 00 00 00 00 cb 0b 00 80 ....Ë..€
0028: 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 c0 .......À
0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0038: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0040: 4d 00 52 00 78 00 53 00 M.R.x.S.
0048: 6d 00 62 00 00 00 5c 00 m.b...\.
0050: 44 00 65 00 76 00 69 00 D.e.v.i.
0058: 63 00 65 00 5c 00 4c 00 c.e.\.L.
0060: 61 00 6e 00 6d 00 61 00 a.n.m.a.
0068: 6e 00 52 00 65 00 64 00 n.R.e.d.
0070: 69 00 72 00 65 00 63 00 i.r.e.c.
0078: 74 00 6f 00 72 00 00 00 t.o.r...
0080: 4f 00 55 00 52 00 48 00 O.U.R.H.
0088: 4f 00 4d 00 45 00 00 00 O.M.E...
0090: 4e 00 65 00 74 00 42 00 N.e.t.B.
0098: 54 00 5f 00 54 00 63 00 T._.T.c.
00a0: 70 00 69 00 70 00 5f 00 p.i.p._.
00a8: 7b 00 41 00 37 00 45 00 {.A.7.E.
00b0: 32 00 34 00 32 00 33 00 2.4.2.3.
00b8: 42 00 2d 00 32 00 31 00 B.-.2.1.
00c0: 36 00 32 00 2d 00 34 00 6.2.-.4.
00c8: 31 00 32 00 46 00 2d 00 1.2.F.-.
00d0: 42 00 37 00 37 00 35 00 B.7.7.5.
00d8: 2d 00 30 00 32 00 00 00 -.0.2..." }-

The only thing logged in ESS is the typical
Incorrect IP packet checksum 0