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Bart
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      07-24-2007
I have VISTA Home premium as my operating system. My system crashes with the
blue screen of death message "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". It seems to crash when
IE7 is running. It will crash when I am surfing the net or when the system is
idol.

Thanks,

Bart
 
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Spanky deMonkey
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      07-24-2007
I did a GOOGLE serach (which you could have done) and it came up with a
number of possibilities. Could be a video driver issue. Make sure your
video drivers are up to date. Could be a hardware issue (memory or
motherboard).

Could also be an issue with the hard drive. First things first. Make sure
all your drivers are up to date then go from there.


"Bart" <> wrote in message
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>I have VISTA Home premium as my operating system. My system crashes with
>the
> blue screen of death message "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". It seems to crash
> when
> IE7 is running. It will crash when I am surfing the net or when the system
> is
> idol.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart



 
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motarola2
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      07-24-2007

this are files corrupted on windows, or bad sectors on the HDD.
Try runnning a checkdisk, that normally fixes it.
it would better if you use your windows CD and access the winRE, once
there you can open the command prompt and run the checkdisk (chkdsk
/r).
you can also run checkdisk from inside windows, which is not as better
as running it from the winRE.


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Michael Solomon
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      07-24-2007


"Spanky deMonkey" <> wrote in message
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>I did a GOOGLE serach (which you could have done) and it came up with a
>number of possibilities. Could be a video driver issue. Make sure your
>video drivers are up to date. Could be a hardware issue (memory or
>motherboard).
>
> Could also be an issue with the hard drive. First things first. Make
> sure all your drivers are up to date then go from there.
>
>
> "Bart" <> wrote in message
> news:37BBF489-ED2A-4277-B34D-...
>>I have VISTA Home premium as my operating system. My system crashes with
>>the
>> blue screen of death message "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". It seems to crash
>> when
>> IE7 is running. It will crash when I am surfing the net or when the
>> system is
>> idol.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bart

>
>


Spanky, I'm wondering if he's even seeing these since he asked the identical
question in a thread just below this and received responses which should
have helped him with this issue including checking on his drivers.
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Andrew McLaren
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      07-25-2007
"motarola2" <> wrote ...
>
> this are files corrupted on windows, or bad sectors on the HDD.
> Try runnning a checkdisk, that normally fixes it.


????

The Stop 0xA message ("IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL ") indicates a kernel-mode
process or driver attempted to access a memory address which it did not have
permission to access. This is usually caused by a programming error in the
driver, etc. It's not totally impossible it could be caused by a bad sector,
but ... that's really several steps removed, in the causal chain.

Likewise: CHKDSK is never a bad thing as an maintenance/diagnostic step, but
it is pretty tangential to troubleshooting STOP 0xA errors, as such.

a Stop 0x7A KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR, or Stop 0x7B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE,
are more likely to be caused by bad sectors or other hard disk problems.

The Windows DDK has a full explanation of all STOP errors.

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Bart
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      07-26-2007
Spanky,

Thanks for the response. I have updated my Nvidia driver and it seems to
have solved the problem. I did do a google search before I posted here but I
found no satisfactory answer.

I have had problems before with Nvidia drivers. This time is was upgrading
to VISTA that zapped me. I downloaded a January driver that was suppose to
fix video problems but apparently didn't do the job. My latest driver is from
April 2007 and it seems to work.

As far as posting twice, it was a mistake on my part. I entered a wrong
email address and reposted the same question.

To all others who posted help, thank you. I really appreciate the help.

Bart

"Spanky deMonkey" wrote:

> I did a GOOGLE search (which you could have done) and it came up with a
> number of possibilities. Could be a video driver issue. Make sure your
> video drivers are up to date. Could be a hardware issue (memory or
> motherboard).
>
> Could also be an issue with the hard drive. First things first. Make sure
> all your drivers are up to date then go from there.
>
>
> "Bart" <> wrote in message
> news:37BBF489-ED2A-4277-B34D-...
> >I have VISTA Home premium as my operating system. My system crashes with
> >the
> > blue screen of death message "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". It seems to crash
> > when
> > IE7 is running. It will crash when I am surfing the net or when the system
> > is
> > idol.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bart

>
>
>

 
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