Windows XP - Blue Screen - DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR EQUAL

[ExpoKazoo]

You have a BEAUTIFUL HD CAMERA! whats it called?!

[DEN1194]

Автор дибил, взял и комп сломал

[TheAneane579]

I need a big help. When I install GTA San Andreas, it works perfectly the first 2-3 minutes...Then I do some actions, like trying to punch someone, or driving a car away and this problem of blue screen pop-ups and restarts my xp computer, which is old..named XEROX..I tried many different ways to solve this, but nothing works for me..So..PLEASE. HELP ME! (And of course, I will subscribe to you if you help me out)!

[rezorekt]

I've been getting this very same Blue Screen...Have you found a solution? I have a Nvidia graphics card and searching the web it seems that this IRQL with Nvidia are very common.

[Bolkiebasher]

@rezorekt Not using that PC any more. The problem did go away for a while, and came back, but not as bad. What did help usually, was to open the case, remove and reinsert the internal memory. Usually that helped. Also: get latest BIOS version and of course latest video card driver. Good luck!!

[MingGuoLi]

@Bolkiebasher RAM? or hard drive?

[Bolkiebasher]

@MingGuoLi Quite sure it was the RAM.

[Viriatus]

that's usually a hardware porblem. Can be your memory, your motherboard, lots of things....

[Bolkiebasher]

@Viriatus Yes indeed.. could be a lot of things alright :-). I updated the BIOS, and that seemed to help. But it reappeared. The solution was usually to take out and reinsert the memory. But it was never stable again. Since 6 months another PC. Thanks for your input!

[Cirrus5005]

Wish I could help bolkie :( I hope you get it sorted.

[Cetramida]

format pc :)

[alephzain1]

Some questions :

- Have you installed hardware recently (memory, pci card, usb hardware) ?

- Its a new PC ?

- XP 64 bits ?

It look like a hardware conflict !

[Bolkiebasher]

@alephzain1 Thanks for your reaction Alephzain (where does that name come from???). Haven't installed any hardware recently. The PC is 2 years and four months old. I think just XP 32 bits. I let a program clean up my registry a few days ago, and since no problems...just have to wait I think!

[alephzain1]

@Bolkiebasher Ok. I wish you no problem ! And alephzain is a simple hebrew translation of my firstname :)

[Bolkiebasher]

@alephzain1 Hi Alephzain. I think I may have discovered the source of the problem. When I have Cybershot PowerDirector and iTunes running at the same time and one or both are using lots op CPU. Maybe my 2 gig memory is not up to it?

[alephzain1]

@Bolkiebasher No if you had 1 go it would be the same, when windows haven't enough memory it swap memory on the HDD in the pagefile.sys file and cause slow access time to the virtual memory since is on HDD and not in physical memory anymore. Usually this BSOD is caused by a driver file and should give indication on the file in BSOD message after stop: 0x000000D1 but here not. A high use of CPU should only slowdown windows but no BSOD. So run a memory test to see in first time if its the memory

[alephzain1]

@Bolkiebasher Memtest86 is your friend. Sometime software (cd burner, music, printer, scanner ...) who access hardware by specific driver can cause error like this one. USB drivers are often a big source of problem.