Sudden Regular BSOD

[atrelio]

Hi there,

I'm experiencing a quite weird and annoying error phenomenon. I've been
using Vista more than a year now without any problem and I simply just love
it.

All of a sudden though, about two weeks ago, the system began to crashing on
a regular basis. BSOD... there were no hardware or software changes at all!
Hardware failure is out of question anyway since this system is a dual boot
system (WinXP Pro) and the other OS works perfectly fine.

So I installed SP1 but nothing changed. I boot the machine, get to the login
screen, log in, and try to use the system: sometimes it takes only a minute,
sometimes it takes 5 minutes to freeze to BSOD (never longer). Always after I
logged in, never before!

I also tried to fall back to other video drivers (nVidia), still no luck.

I am at a total loss as to what the hell happened to my rig just like that,
so please give me a hand here! Any help appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

 

[Christopher Stott]

What does the BSOD say? Is there a particular file or driver causing the
problem?

Chris

 

[atrelio]

Hello Chris,

it varies. Most of the time though the infamous "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"
message apperas. BSOD codes also vary (e.g. 0x0000007e (0x0000005,
0x81EA5E91, 0x80599C38, 0x80599934)).

That's why I suspected video driver issue or memory error - even if XP works
flawlessly, I run the BIOS memtest for hours - no errors of course.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Go to the control panel/system and open the advanced settings. Enter the
startup and recovery settings, set the recovery options so that a small
memory (minidump) is created on system failure. Apply the options. Next time
the error occurs (which, by the way, is a driver error), send the minidump
created to me at (e-mail address removed) using a subject line of 'per req' to get past
filtes. The file will be under C:\Windows\Minidump. Please send only the
most recent one. It may contain information needed to diagnose which driver
is the problem, or if there is some other underlying cause.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com