Crashing and burning
davidacord
Humboldt CA
I got an HP pavilion 6830 from a relative after my laptop died
I formatted the hard drive, swapped the 64M RAM for 2 128's I had laying around, installed XP Home, defragged, and went straight to windows update.
While running update my computer crashed (stack dump). Since then (yesterday) I've had 7 crashes (all while online or attempting to connect) once while typing this post
This is the message "DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL"
What do I do?
I formatted the hard drive, swapped the 64M RAM for 2 128's I had laying around, installed XP Home, defragged, and went straight to windows update.
While running update my computer crashed (stack dump). Since then (yesterday) I've had 7 crashes (all while online or attempting to connect) once while typing this post
This is the message "DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL"
What do I do?
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Most likely 1 or more sticks of ram are bad.
Sorry 4 wasting time
I concur with this. I've heard not to run faster ram like 133 on 100 systems. But I've done it with zero trouble.
I think this may actually have a lot to do with the crashes; I have run Xp Pro with only 128 Mb Ram on one machine with respectful performance and on another machine that whenever launching applications, response time would be horrid= also resulting in the occasional crash.
The machine with the 128 that ran well(considering) actually had the bare minimum processor as well; a Pentium 2 233 MHz. Never crashed and also ran XP Office Pro.
With that sempron 1.6 256 (as I am sure you are aware) you have a lot more room for memory to be used for apps etc, since if Xp only has 128 (once again as I' sure you are aware) it will gobble all of it just to stay operational.
True. Should be more than enough. For some reason I read his post and Leos and thought he was running only 128 ,,,,hey it was New Years Eve!!:bigggrin:
*Driver IRQL is a hardware/driver fault, not a memory issue*
is there a possible work around or solution you had in mind YAD?
..so you are thinking not bad Ram? Have you run memtest davidacord?
PS how do I run memtest? Click Start, run, type memtest?
PPS error address? is that : STOP 0x000000D1 (0x076A8AD0, 0x000000FF, oxoooooooo, 0x076A8AD0)
cause if it is it kept changing
PPPS The RAM slots are right under the drive bays and are a pain in the ass to change
For that matter, please do this also: http://icrontic.com/articles/hard_drive_diagnostics