blue screen:- Driver-Irq-not less-or equal?

[pesty]

Anyone know why I get this? happens a lot then says dumping physical memory.

IRQL

Edited cos I missed the L off.

>>> Edited by pesty on Wednesday 1st September 00:22

[plotloss]

Usually a device driver conflict but can be thrown for anything from bad memory to a hosed registry.

Anything changed recently?

[pesty]

No not really but it sbeen doing it for ages to be honest. Just seems to have got worse recently and with aol crashing all teh time since i put sp2 on its now getting on my tits.

Seems to happen a lot when using graphics intensivestuff games etc. Grapghics card driver oris it some sord of harwware ive installed thats teh problem

ps noticed that its not always that same error. happened 3 times last night and always different. sometimes the pc just crashes and i dont get a blue screen at all.

Anyway i dont know if this will help probably not but Ive ordered some more ram and also a better Processor fan as it runs at over 70 degrees according to asus probe. my mate who has same chip and mother board runs at 55 with a different fan

>> Edited by pesty on Wednesday 1st September 12:11

[tycho]

I had the same problem. Linux would startup fine but XP would reboot 2 or 3 times before it would start. Caused no end of headaches. In the end I traced it to a bad 256Mb memory DIMM.

If you have 2 dimms then take one out and see if it still happens. Then swap them over.

HTH

[billb]

had same error on w2k with spack 4 and it was corrupt tcpip but yes stop error can be anything really - see if u can recreate it so u know it happens all the time when u do x and try and narrow it down from there - ie does it still do it in safe mode - if not disable various drivers and keep adding them back until it does it again if poss.

[pesty]

I have just posted on teh sp2 .

2 things recently changed one installed spyware hunter software and sp2.

pc used to crash now and again when playing games. I belive that the processor was over heating (getting on for 80) or possibly that the driver for the video card was a prob.

I have fitted a new fan and temp stable at 55 degrees.

blue screens every 5 mins so uninstalled sp2 seems better but still not right pc hangs up when I shut down and wont start easily.

To be honest Im gonna leave it like this for now as Im getting stressed out trying to fix it.

not sure how to diable driver either but I will try and remove one of the Ram thingys there are 2.

Thanks for the advise.

[Pot Bellied Fool]

I've just had this on a new system build as it happens.

Every time I've had this, it's down to bad memory. Good enough to pass POST but not quite good enough.

Try some more memory or see if you can run the memory you've got at a slower speed.

[Zad]

pesty said:

Anyone know why I get this? happens a lot then says dumping physical memory. >>> Edited by pesty on Wednesday 1st September 00:22

This used to happen a lot with Alcatel ADSL modems, the "squashed frog" variety. The solution was to upgrade the drivers to whatever the latest was.

Mike

[BliarOut]

First set your memory dump to a kernel dump (Right click My computer> Properties> Advanced >Startup and Recovery)

Then you need to download the debugging tools from Microsoft.

www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmd_stp_mbps.asp

Most of what you need to know is in here!

Set the sympath to use the microsoft symbol server Open your crash dump (Usually called MEMORY.DMP in C:Windows

then issue

!analyze -v

It should!! point you to the buggy driver.

HTH