XP BSODs, restarts... for a year. Help?

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Samuel Wear

Greetings techies and smarter-guys-than-me:

I have been having a problem with my PC for a year now and
have done all I can think to do to cure it. The problem
is that XP will randomly stop with a blue screen, perform
a "memory dump," count to 100 and restart. It happens
regardless of whether I am online or off. It happens
irrespective of what software I am using. The specific
message changes, but is usually "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL."
The message screen sometimes recommends "try changing
video adaptors" or "If you have recently added new
hardware or software, try removing it" but I haven't added
anything. Sometimes it recommends disabling "advanced
chipset features such as ram caching or shadowing" (or
something like that)--disabled in BIOS; no change. This
is a since-day-one problem.

The only equipment the upgrade advisor complains about is
my Acer scanner. I removed, disconnected and uninstalled
it... no difference.

So far, I have tried: Changing video cards (disabled the
onboard video and installed a geforce4 PCI card, which I
have re-uninstalled); changing ram modules and
configurations (every possible one); scanned for viruses
(obviously); altered BIOS settings about a dozen times;
updated the BIOS; sought out updated drivers for all
hardware; run Windows Update pretty regularly; upgraded to
SP1; run all the Windows maintanence stuff... that's about
all I can think of.

Here are three stop errors I got just this afternoon:

Error: "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL."
Technical information: 0xa (0x2, 0x0, 0xb8eoo1cc,
0x8050060b)

Error: "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL."
Technical information: 0xa (0xf9a0e1fe, 0xff, 0x0,
0x8052f02f)

Error: "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL." [notice the
difference here]
Technical information: 0xd1 (0x8051, 0x2, 0x0, 0x8051)
[yeah, 8051 twice]

Error: none
Technical information: 0x8e (0xc5, 0x805321a2, 0xf7b2ec4c,
0x0)


Anyone have any ideas? System information follows (much
from Belarc Advisor).

System is a Microtel Sysmar570. Processor is a 1.2 gHz
AMD Duron. Mainboard is a Microstar MS-6378 (VT8361).
Bus Clock 100mHz. Award Bios. 256Meg Ram installed; 8
meg diverted to on-board video; 248 reported. WinXP Home
(build 2600), SP1, installed on a separate hard drive,
machine set up to dual boot against WinMe (XP default).
Intel 537 modem. ADMtek AN983 10/100 PCI adapter.
Trident Video Accelerator Blade 3D/ ProMedia (onboard
video). VIA AC '97 Audio Controller (WDM) onboard. Three
hard drives, a 3.5" floppy and an ATAPI CD-RW. Printer is
a Canon BubbleJet BJC-2000. And the case is a pretty
shade of cream.

Installed software includes ABBYY Finereader Sprint v.
4.0.2.124; Adobe Acrobat; Adobe ImageReady v. 3.0; Adobe
Photoshop v. 6.0; Ahead software InCD V. 4.0.1.8; Nero
Express; Quake III Arena; Copier Application v. 2.0.1.5;
Reflections Driver You Are The Wheelman; Lavasoft Ad-aware
v. 6.00; MGI Photosuite III V. 3.0.0.61; McAfee Firewall
and VirusScan Home Edition v. 7..00.5000.0; NetZero V.
4.3.00 (hey, it's cheap dial-up an' that's all I need);
OpenOffice.Org 1.0.1; All the usual Windows stuff.

So, anyway, Help!
 
I don't know if this will help - but it might. I
installed and re-installed ABBYY FineReader many times.
It kept halting my computer (XP Pro/SP1) with the BSOD.
the ABBYY helpdesk took about a week to answer each of my
emails. I finally kicked it off my system and got
TextBridge. It seems that ABBYY is in Russia, of all
places, and they simply couldn't fix the problem.
-----Original Message-----
Greetings techies and smarter-guys-than-me:

I have been having a problem with my PC for a year now and
have done all I can think to do to cure it. The problem
is that XP will randomly stop with a blue screen, perform
a "memory dump," count to 100 and restart. It happens
regardless of whether I am online or off. It happens
irrespective of what software I am using. The specific
message changes, but is
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usually "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL."
The message screen sometimes recommends "try changing
video adaptors" or "If you have recently added new
hardware or software, try removing it" but I haven't added
anything. Sometimes it recommends disabling "advanced
chipset features such as ram caching or shadowing" (or
something like that)--disabled in BIOS; no change. This
is a since-day-one problem.

The only equipment the upgrade advisor complains about is
my Acer scanner. I removed, disconnected and uninstalled
it... no difference.

So far, I have tried: Changing video cards (disabled the
onboard video and installed a geforce4 PCI card, which I
have re-uninstalled); changing ram modules and
configurations (every possible one); scanned for viruses
(obviously); altered BIOS settings about a dozen times;
updated the BIOS; sought out updated drivers for all
hardware; run Windows Update pretty regularly; upgraded to
SP1; run all the Windows maintanence stuff... that's about
all I can think of.

Here are three stop errors I got just this afternoon:

Error: "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL."
Technical information: 0xa (0x2, 0x0, 0xb8eoo1cc,
0x8050060b)

Error: "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL."
Technical information: 0xa (0xf9a0e1fe, 0xff, 0x0,
0x8052f02f)

Error: "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL." [notice the
difference here]
Technical information: 0xd1 (0x8051, 0x2, 0x0, 0x8051)
[yeah, 8051 twice]

Error: none
Technical information: 0x8e (0xc5, 0x805321a2, 0xf7b2ec4c,
0x0)


Anyone have any ideas? System information follows (much
from Belarc Advisor).

System is a Microtel Sysmar570. Processor is a 1.2 gHz
AMD Duron. Mainboard is a Microstar MS-6378 (VT8361).
Bus Clock 100mHz. Award Bios. 256Meg Ram installed; 8
meg diverted to on-board video; 248 reported. WinXP Home
(build 2600), SP1, installed on a separate hard drive,
machine set up to dual boot against WinMe (XP default).
Intel 537 modem. ADMtek AN983 10/100 PCI adapter.
Trident Video Accelerator Blade 3D/ ProMedia (onboard
video). VIA AC '97 Audio Controller (WDM) onboard. Three
hard drives, a 3.5" floppy and an ATAPI CD-RW. Printer is
a Canon BubbleJet BJC-2000. And the case is a pretty
shade of cream.

Installed software includes ABBYY Finereader Sprint v.
4.0.2.124; Adobe Acrobat; Adobe ImageReady v. 3.0; Adobe
Photoshop v. 6.0; Ahead software InCD V. 4.0.1.8; Nero
Express; Quake III Arena; Copier Application v. 2.0.1.5;
Reflections Driver You Are The Wheelman; Lavasoft Ad- aware
v. 6.00; MGI Photosuite III V. 3.0.0.61; McAfee Firewall
and VirusScan Home Edition v. 7..00.5000.0; NetZero V.
4.3.00 (hey, it's cheap dial-up an' that's all I need);
OpenOffice.Org 1.0.1; All the usual Windows stuff.

So, anyway, Help!
.
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Okay, that didn't work. Is there any way to narrow down
what my problem might be--that is, if this is a driver
issue, how to figure out which one is causing the trouble--
without just playing the process-of-elimination game?

Samuel Wear
-----Original Message-----
I don't know if this will help - but it might. I
installed and re-installed ABBYY FineReader many times.
It kept halting my computer (XP Pro/SP1) with the BSOD.
the ABBYY helpdesk took about a week to answer each of my
emails. I finally kicked it off my system and got
TextBridge. It seems that ABBYY is in Russia, of all
places, and they simply couldn't fix the problem.
-----Original Message-----
Greetings techies and smarter-guys-than-me:

I have been having a problem with my PC for a year now and
have done all I can think to do to cure it. The problem
is that XP will randomly stop with a blue screen, perform
a "memory dump," count to 100 and restart. It happens
regardless of whether I am online or off. It happens
irrespective of what software I am using. The specific
message changes, but is
Click to expand...
usually "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL."
The message screen sometimes recommends "try changing
video adaptors" or "If you have recently added new
hardware or software, try removing it" but I haven't added
anything. Sometimes it recommends disabling "advanced
chipset features such as ram caching or shadowing" (or
something like that)--disabled in BIOS; no change. This
is a since-day-one problem.

The only equipment the upgrade advisor complains about is
my Acer scanner. I removed, disconnected and uninstalled
it... no difference.

So far, I have tried: Changing video cards (disabled the
onboard video and installed a geforce4 PCI card, which I
have re-uninstalled); changing ram modules and
configurations (every possible one); scanned for viruses
(obviously); altered BIOS settings about a dozen times;
updated the BIOS; sought out updated drivers for all
hardware; run Windows Update pretty regularly; upgraded to
SP1; run all the Windows maintanence stuff... that's about
all I can think of.

Here are three stop errors I got just this afternoon:

Error: "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL."
Technical information: 0xa (0x2, 0x0, 0xb8eoo1cc,
0x8050060b)

Error: "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL."
Technical information: 0xa (0xf9a0e1fe, 0xff, 0x0,
0x8052f02f)

Error: "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL." [notice the
difference here]
Technical information: 0xd1 (0x8051, 0x2, 0x0, 0x8051)
[yeah, 8051 twice]

Error: none
Technical information: 0x8e (0xc5, 0x805321a2, 0xf7b2ec4c,
0x0)


Anyone have any ideas? System information follows (much
from Belarc Advisor).

System is a Microtel Sysmar570. Processor is a 1.2 gHz
AMD Duron. Mainboard is a Microstar MS-6378 (VT8361).
Bus Clock 100mHz. Award Bios. 256Meg Ram installed; 8
meg diverted to on-board video; 248 reported. WinXP Home
(build 2600), SP1, installed on a separate hard drive,
machine set up to dual boot against WinMe (XP default).
Intel 537 modem. ADMtek AN983 10/100 PCI adapter.
Trident Video Accelerator Blade 3D/ ProMedia (onboard
video). VIA AC '97 Audio Controller (WDM) onboard. Three
hard drives, a 3.5" floppy and an ATAPI CD-RW. Printer is
a Canon BubbleJet BJC-2000. And the case is a pretty
shade of cream.

Installed software includes ABBYY Finereader Sprint v.
4.0.2.124; Adobe Acrobat; Adobe ImageReady v. 3.0; Adobe
Photoshop v. 6.0; Ahead software InCD V. 4.0.1.8; Nero
Express; Quake III Arena; Copier Application v. 2.0.1.5;
Reflections Driver You Are The Wheelman; Lavasoft Ad- aware
v. 6.00; MGI Photosuite III V. 3.0.0.61; McAfee Firewall
and VirusScan Home Edition v. 7..00.5000.0; NetZero V.
4.3.00 (hey, it's cheap dial-up an' that's all I need);
OpenOffice.Org 1.0.1; All the usual Windows stuff.

So, anyway, Help!
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