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XP BSODs, restarts... for a year. Help?
Greetings techies and smarter-guys-than-me:
I have been having a problem with my PC for a year now and have done all I can think to do to cure it. The problem is that XP will randomly stop with a blue screen, perform a "memory dump," count to 100 and restart. It happens regardless of whether I am online or off. It happens irrespective of what software I am using. The specific message changes, but is usually "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL." The message screen sometimes recommends "try changing video adaptors" or "If you have recently added new hardware or software, try removing it" but I haven't added anything. Sometimes it recommends disabling "advanced chipset features such as ram caching or shadowing" (or something like that)--disabled in BIOS; no change. This is a since-day-one problem. The only equipment the upgrade advisor complains about is my Acer scanner. I removed, disconnected and uninstalled it... no difference. So far, I have tried: Changing video cards (disabled the onboard video and installed a geforce4 PCI card, which I have re-uninstalled); changing ram modules and configurations (every possible one); scanned for viruses (obviously); altered BIOS settings about a dozen times; updated the BIOS; sought out updated drivers for all hardware; run Windows Update pretty regularly; upgraded to SP1; run all the Windows maintanence stuff... that's about all I can think of. Here are three stop errors I got just this afternoon: Error: "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL." Technical information: 0xa (0x2, 0x0, 0xb8eoo1cc, 0x8050060b) Error: "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL." Technical information: 0xa (0xf9a0e1fe, 0xff, 0x0, 0x8052f02f) Error: "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL." [notice the difference here] Technical information: 0xd1 (0x8051, 0x2, 0x0, 0x8051) [yeah, 8051 twice] Error: none Technical information: 0x8e (0xc5, 0x805321a2, 0xf7b2ec4c, 0x0) Anyone have any ideas? System information follows (much from Belarc Advisor). System is a Microtel Sysmar570. Processor is a 1.2 gHz AMD Duron. Mainboard is a Microstar MS-6378 (VT8361). Bus Clock 100mHz. Award Bios. 256Meg Ram installed; 8 meg diverted to on-board video; 248 reported. WinXP Home (build 2600), SP1, installed on a separate hard drive, machine set up to dual boot against WinMe (XP default). Intel 537 modem. ADMtek AN983 10/100 PCI adapter. Trident Video Accelerator Blade 3D/ ProMedia (onboard video). VIA AC '97 Audio Controller (WDM) onboard. Three hard drives, a 3.5" floppy and an ATAPI CD-RW. Printer is a Canon BubbleJet BJC-2000. And the case is a pretty shade of cream. Installed software includes ABBYY Finereader Sprint v. 4.0.2.124; Adobe Acrobat; Adobe ImageReady v. 3.0; Adobe Photoshop v. 6.0; Ahead software InCD V. 4.0.1.8; Nero Express; Quake III Arena; Copier Application v. 2.0.1.5; Reflections Driver You Are The Wheelman; Lavasoft Ad-aware v. 6.00; MGI Photosuite III V. 3.0.0.61; McAfee Firewall and VirusScan Home Edition v. 7..00.5000.0; NetZero V. 4.3.00 (hey, it's cheap dial-up an' that's all I need); OpenOffice.Org 1.0.1; All the usual Windows stuff. So, anyway, Help! |
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