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This is the third time tonight trying to post to this group. My computer has
been shooting blue screen at me all evening (nine to this point). I've been
having this problem for the past several weeks and can't get it resolved. The
original post tonight was about the message on the screen:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new hardware of software is properly installed. If
this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for
any windows updater you might need.
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or
software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you
need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer,
press F8 to select advanced Starup Options, and then select s safe mode.
Technical information:
***STOP^ 0x0000000A (0xDOCA60DC, 0x0000000l,0x00000000, 0x804E7815)

Before I was told it might be my computer overheating, so I moved it back to
the desktop next to my work station. I was told it might be a memory problem.
I am running on an AMD 2400 processor (2GgHz) with 1G of RAM in 2 - 512M
sticks. I tried to run the memtest and can't get the computer to boot from
it. It always skips the CD and loads windows; so I went into the bios and set
the start from a:, then D: and disabled my C: drive altogether. I just got
errors. I tried to get a boot disk for XP, but all I can get my hands on is
one that wants to reinstall XP again (something I've already done 5 times
this month).

I've tried removing each of the memory sticks tonight and got the same
problem with each of them running independently.

As I was trying to post, the beautiful blue appeared again:

A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or
been M terminated.
If this is the first time you've seen this top error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If
this is a new installtion, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any
windows updates you might need
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or
software. Disavle BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you
need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer,
press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then selct SAfe Mode.
Technical information:
***STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x820lDDAO, 0x820lDFl4, 0x805FA7A8)

When I rebooted, it happened again as I was posting:

A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or
been terminated.
Technical information
***STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x8180720, 0x81807194, 0x805FA7A8)

I'd love to get this resolved. Any suggestions?
 
I can fully understand your frustration. I too had many problems with blue
screen errors, and have finally resolved the issue. The
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL was a common one with me. What happened was that my
original system blew up (mobo and CPU) so i borrowed some parts from a
friend (mobo and CPU). All was find for several months. Then I started
getting these bluescreens. If the bluescreens would have occured after
getting the borrowed mobo and cpu then i could have put it down to those
compnents. Well anyways I decided to upgrade my system. So I:

purchased a new mobo (still had bluescreens)
purchased a new video card (still had bluescreens)
purchased a new CPU (bluescreens went away)

I cant stress this enough. You really do have to exchange hardware (right
down to the cpu and mobo if necessary) to see if any of your pieces are at
fault.

On another note, XP can format a bootable floppy. Infact when you install
memtest86 on a floppy it formats the floppy for you. Dont worry if you cant
get xp to read the content of the floppy, this is normal after memtest86
formats it and installs its stuff on it. Do about 10 cycles of memtest on
your memory.

I'll tell you the truth, there is a slim chance you'll be able to resolve
these bluescreen issues by reading the bluescreens and analysing the memory
dumps to figure out whats going on. Best thing to do is:

1. exchange hardware
2. update your drivers

Its been said and said again.

best of luck. let me know how you get on.

tjones
 
LJM said:
This is the third time tonight trying to post to this group. My computer has
been shooting blue screen at me all evening (nine to this point). I've been
having this problem for the past several weeks and can't get it resolved. The
original post tonight was about the message on the screen:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new hardware of software is properly installed. If
this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for
any windows updater you might need.
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or
software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you
need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer,
press F8 to select advanced Starup Options, and then select s safe mode.
Technical information:
***STOP^ 0x0000000A (0xDOCA60DC, 0x0000000l,0x00000000, 0x804E7815)

Before I was told it might be my computer overheating, so I moved it back to
the desktop next to my work station. I was told it might be a memory problem.
I am running on an AMD 2400 processor (2GgHz) with 1G of RAM in 2 - 512M
sticks. I tried to run the memtest and can't get the computer to boot from
it. It always skips the CD and loads windows; so I went into the bios and set
the start from a:, then D: and disabled my C: drive altogether. I just got
errors. I tried to get a boot disk for XP, but all I can get my hands on is
one that wants to reinstall XP again (something I've already done 5 times
this month).

I've tried removing each of the memory sticks tonight and got the same
problem with each of them running independently.

As I was trying to post, the beautiful blue appeared again:

A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or
been M terminated.
If this is the first time you've seen this top error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If
this is a new installtion, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any
windows updates you might need
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or
software. Disavle BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you
need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer,
press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then selct SAfe Mode.
Technical information:
***STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x820lDDAO, 0x820lDFl4, 0x805FA7A8)

When I rebooted, it happened again as I was posting:

A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or
been terminated.
Technical information
***STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x8180720, 0x81807194, 0x805FA7A8)

I'd love to get this resolved. Any suggestions?
Click to expand...

0x0000000A: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
 
im actualy not sure why microsoft even bothered to have numerous bluescreen
messages. When you read the details of each of them they all mostly say
"possibly caused by faulty cpu or ram etc".
 
Here's what I finally did...

Old configuration:
C: 120G SATA drive
D: 160G IDE

I tried to dump as much information from the 160 onto the 120. Didn't get
all of it, because every two minutes - litteraly - the blue screen popped up.
I unplugged my 120. Then I reformatted the 160 and made it my new C: drive. I
installed XP there and am in the process of re-installing everything. I
plugged the 120 back in and it is now my D: drive. I think it was a
configuration problem before that had corrupted windows. The hard drive
wanted to use the 160 as the C: drive because it was set up on the IDE cable.
Windows wanted to use the 120 SATA because that's what it was told to do.

I'm pretty happy with the setup because I'm not getting the blue screens
right now. But the computer has shut down on me for no reason a few times.

That's what's happening, since you asked. Thanks for all your help.

LJM
 
LJM said:
Here's what I finally did...

Old configuration:
C: 120G SATA drive
D: 160G IDE

I tried to dump as much information from the 160 onto the 120. Didn't get
all of it, because every two minutes - litteraly - the blue screen popped up.
I unplugged my 120. Then I reformatted the 160 and made it my new C: drive. I
installed XP there and am in the process of re-installing everything. I
plugged the 120 back in and it is now my D: drive. I think it was a
configuration problem before that had corrupted windows. The hard drive
wanted to use the 160 as the C: drive because it was set up on the IDE cable.
Windows wanted to use the 120 SATA because that's what it was told to do.

I'm pretty happy with the setup because I'm not getting the blue screens
right now. But the computer has shut down on me for no reason a few times.

That's what's happening, since you asked. Thanks for all your help.

LJM

:
Click to expand...

Have you checked the ram thoroughly using memtest86? Random shutdown
problems are often hardware related, bad ram, overheating, failing power
supply, or other hardware problem. Seems you have eliminated the hard
drive as a problem since you have solved the blue screening with the
format and install, but the random shut downs that are still occurring
suggest other problems still exist.
 
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