IRQL not less or equal blue screen error - Page 4

isdrasil · 26-11-2006, 12:12 AM

But if I cleaned up my whole pc. And that windows copy always worked, so I think it's not a driver issue.
how can you test your RAM then?

Nermal · 27-11-2006, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by isdrasil

Heey, another one with problems

I also get the "IRQL not less or equal" error.

Did it just start doing that with no obvious reason? I ask because two of our work systems have just done it, and I'm wondering whether a recent Windows update may have broken something.

borax · 27-11-2006, 02:27 PM

Wow, have you seen how many views this post has had

, maybe this is something to do with a recent ms patch as it looks like a lot of people are interested in it.

isdrasil · 28-11-2006, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Nermal

Did it just start doing that with no obvious reason? I ask because two of our work systems have just done it, and I'm wondering whether a recent Windows update may have broken something.

As far as I know it seems it just came from out of nowhere. it's about 3 weeks or a month ago that it happend.
But I fixed it! I had a DDR400 RAM in a DDR333 slot, I think a little mistake from the PC-builder. I replaced it with a correct one and now my PC is as good as new!!
Thanks for the hint!!

pctek · 28-11-2006, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by isdrasil

But I fixed it! I had a DDR400 RAM in a DDR333 slot, I think a little mistake from the PC-builder. I replaced it with a correct one and now my PC is as good as new!!
Thanks for the hint!!

Shouldn't matter. It just runs at 333.
I have just worked on a PC with DDR400 running at 266, and its fine.

isdrasil · 28-11-2006, 10:01 PM

maybe not, but it solved my problem. It could be it was just the ram that was broken?

suncoast · 29-11-2006, 09:09 AM

I signed up to post my experience with this issue. It may be caused by a failing hard drive.

I have a system that has a dying hard drive according to SMART. I added this drive to another "repair" system to remove as much of the data as possible for migration to a new drive. However the repair system generated this same BSOD error - IRQL not less or equal. I set the system BIOS to ignore drive diagnostics, that did not help. When I remove the failing drive, no more BSOD.

Then I installed an add-in IDE controller and connected the failing drive to it. Success. I was able to pull most of the critical files from the drive before it died completely. No more BSOD errors. This particular drive is a Maxtor 80 Gig ATA made in Sept 2002.

nkent001 · 19-12-2006, 08:42 AM

Same error here. Hope this helps, even if just with few more things to try:

Started with occasional PC hang up during shutdown (mouse ok but nothing else). When power off and on it gets BSOD with IRQL not less ... Happens after user login (while icons are populating the tray). If it makes it through login it's safe for the rest of the day. The system always boots fine in safe mode.
Recently the error became more often and is not necessarily preceded by the shutdown freeze.

Not a heating problem. It happens even if the PC was off for few hours. Also the PC runs fine for hours under heavy load. Tested the RAM with memtest86 and CPU with Prime95. Ran 3DMark2k6 (and games) repeated times.
The PC is dual boot and it runs (and boots) without problems under SUSE 10.2 (and prior 10.1, 10.0).
Does not seem to be OC related - same problem happens if I underclock CPU to 1.6GHz and RAM to 166MHz. When the system is in a "stable configuration" it works ok even overclocked.
I have some old image backups and it does not have problems if I restore an older, fairly cleaner copy (less apps).

I assume Windows gets the BIOS "confused" (or vice versa - ACPI?) and the resources are not allocated properly (or optimal). I'm leaning towards poor software design (OS, BIOS, drivers) rather than hardware problems.

Started experimenting by removing devices and drivers (in BIOS and/or OS). Found that the Sil 3132 SATA controller does not "play nice" with the rest of the system, mainly the network controllers. If the LAN controllers are disabled and Sil 3132 enabled, the PC boots fine. If the LAN is enabled then I start having problems - disable Sil 3132 and all works fine.

I managed to get the system working for a while by going to safe mode, uninstalling the Sil 3132, disabled it in BIOS, boot with one LAN enabled and then boot with Sil 3132 enabled (it "finds" it again and reinstalls).
But, I had problems as soon as I changed something in the configuration (mounted external HD, performed boot time defrag, performed Windows upgrade, etc.)

My configuration: Win XP Pro SP2, ASUS A8N32-SLI Dlx, AMD 64 X2 4400 (@2.55GHz), 2GBxDDR400 (@464) NEC DVD-RW, 2xEVGA 7900 in SLI, Audigy2, AverTV, Canopus ADVC1369. The HDD's are 2x250GB SATA2 as RAID0 on NVidia, 1x250GB SATA2 on Sil 3132 (for image backup), and 1x250GB UDMA (for Linux). Also connected to 3 Ximeta NDAS drives (2x250GB and 1x500GB).

bec86 · 21-12-2006, 12:25 AM

hi there,

i have been working on my bf's Dell Inspiron 6400 notebook for the past week... i have had many probs with it.
at first it would come up saying that the system had performed an illegal operation and would be shut down, this message would appear as soon as the system was booted up. so i thought, ok maybe virus or software install that has gone wrong.

so it finally booted up and let me work on it without this message, so i updated absolutely everything and ran virus scans etc, you name it, i did it to clean it... so everything seemed to be running perfectly again.
then i get a BSOD, while doing nothing at all, the system was idle, saying PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA... could not for the life of me figure out what was causing this so i searched and found that it could be memory or could be a problem with teh vid card. so i updated the video card drivers, all ok. once again everythign was running perfectly, then a day or so later, once again, the computer was just running idle, i go another BSOD with ATI3DUAG.DLL - ADDRESS.... ETC ETC ETC
so i thought, ok so that sounds like an error witht eh video card install/update, so i completey unistalled and reinstalled the video card.
once again, all running fine.
then, i get another BSOD with NTFS.SYS - ADDRESS ETC ETC ETC...
so then i just got so frustrated that i decided to reinistall, which i guess i should have just done from the start.

so i reinstall it all fine, then just when i was nearly finished installing the anti virus, the system decides to go gaga on me again.
so i completely reformatted, repartitioned and reinistalled again. then when i was at the customising section of the install (setup time zones etc) the computer just froze, i could not do anything, it even took forever just to get it to turn off...
so i try to once again reformat etc etc etc, and i get this BSOD IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. So i try taking each of the ram chips out and reinstalling to see if its one of the ram chips that are the problem. everything was going fantastically until i got to reboot after doing the reinstall and then it come up with another BSOD this time with FATAL SYSTEM ERROR.
i am beginning to think its the HDD... just waiting for DELL to send me a new one, the laptop is only 4months old, is only used so far for listening to music and loading photos onto it...

any ideas please let me know.
thanks in advance.

bec

botkiller · 25-01-2007, 11:37 AM

I too have had this error, on a gigabyte k8n pro SLI mobo running an AMD X2 2ghz with 1 gig of GSKILL RAM. It is hard drive related on my end, it shows up when I try to access data on a hard drive that is on the secondary IDE channel. I get the irql message, and something about NVATA.sys. I have tried scanning the hard drive with norton disk doctor, but it can't get thru a scan because it crashes to blue screen when it tries to access it.

The hard drive is a seagate barracude 250 gig, and it is a refurbished drive, because I had problems with this drive when I first bought it and seagate replaced it. I don't have any conflicting IRQ's, as far as I know. My RAM is good, I don't get BSOD's when I try to access the other hard drives. I have the most recent BIOS for my mobo. I can't figure out if this is a dying IDE controller or a dying hard drive and I don't have a second test system.

Does anyone else have this problem in relation to nvidia drivers? Is there a way to find out what nvidia drivers I have installed, and uninstall/reinstall them?