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Well, I suppose I should say I've been having blue screen errors in the form of IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
and paging to non-paging area, for years. Of course they have increased in the recent year and past few months... so much so that I could not play any game for more than 2 min's before it crashed. It always looked like it was a RAM problem, something with my ati7500 graphics card, graphics driver or some other in-compatible driver.
Finally, 4 weeks ago I had a pretty nasty piece of spyware. I did everything to remove it, including set it back to an earlier restore date. To my utter horror on re-booting the 'puter would not go past the bios set up. I figured out after a few minutes that it was not registering the harddrive from the boot sequence! ARgh! Has my hard-drive failed??
Just before I was going to kill myself, as I don't have my media backed-up, I decided to open the computer, give it a clean, check any wires and put it back together again. I did this and found that the wire to my harddrive was only very slightly loose. So, after re-assembling and praying to as many gods as I knew I re-booted........... no problems. Start up was fine and there were no other changes - apart from the fact that for the past 4 weeks I have had NO blue screen errors whatsoever, can play games like I never could before and don't spend half my time rebooting.
Now, I've also heard thing similar from other people - that it can be a hardware-related problem - or even a power supply thing. I can't speak for most people, but I seriously recommend that you check your hardware connections, where the pc is standing (check the fan and for over-heating) and hopefully solve the problem that way.
Anyway, hope that helps you!
Miles
and paging to non-paging area, for years. Of course they have increased in the recent year and past few months... so much so that I could not play any game for more than 2 min's before it crashed. It always looked like it was a RAM problem, something with my ati7500 graphics card, graphics driver or some other in-compatible driver.
Finally, 4 weeks ago I had a pretty nasty piece of spyware. I did everything to remove it, including set it back to an earlier restore date. To my utter horror on re-booting the 'puter would not go past the bios set up. I figured out after a few minutes that it was not registering the harddrive from the boot sequence! ARgh! Has my hard-drive failed??
Just before I was going to kill myself, as I don't have my media backed-up, I decided to open the computer, give it a clean, check any wires and put it back together again. I did this and found that the wire to my harddrive was only very slightly loose. So, after re-assembling and praying to as many gods as I knew I re-booted........... no problems. Start up was fine and there were no other changes - apart from the fact that for the past 4 weeks I have had NO blue screen errors whatsoever, can play games like I never could before and don't spend half my time rebooting.
Now, I've also heard thing similar from other people - that it can be a hardware-related problem - or even a power supply thing. I can't speak for most people, but I seriously recommend that you check your hardware connections, where the pc is standing (check the fan and for over-heating) and hopefully solve the problem that way.
Anyway, hope that helps you!
Miles
