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Felix

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Until last week I was a moderatly happy loner surfing the web in his computer and everything was ok. But then suddenly the b.s.o.d. came into my life with a crushing saturated blue color that fills me with despair...

I searched what to do, I updated some drivers, checked for malaware, nothing...

The error I get is this

DRIVER_IRLQ_NOTLESS_OR_EQUAL

ndis.sys

and some other time I got

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

It's happening more often :( I'm trying to burn my information... I'm considering restoring the system.
 
Ak5 said:
You got Vista?

No, I got XP.

Maybe this is a sign that I should get Vista?

I updated my 'adaptator' (not sure if that's what's called) driver... still I know there are more drivers... somewhere...

Some websites mentioned that instaling some programs can produce this error. Think that's true? I think I'll try that before recovering the system
 
XP is awesome, I don't know why you got a blue screen of death. :O

Vista sucks, Windows 7 is way better, I've gotten various BSODs from Vista, none from Windows 7!
 
*sigh*

I'd love to be a cool nerd and get Linux and forget windows...

I know is not that bad but...

you know.

keep burning dvds and dvds........... @_@
 
If a system restore doesn't work you just might want to take it in to have it looked at, or maybe think of replacing your computer. Since you have XP your computer must be 5 years old or around that I assume. Is this a PC or laptop?
 
Sci-Fi said:
If a system restore doesn't work you just might want to take it in to have it looked at, or maybe think of replacing your computer. Since you have XP your computer must be 5 years old or around that I assume. Is this a PC or laptop?

PC. Probably a bit less old, 4 years. The thing works great despite of the fact that the bsod keeps showing up.
 
If you have a local computer shop I'd bring it in have them take a look at it and find out what the problem is. I did that with one of mine (a mini laptop) and it had bad sectors that they repaired for me. A PC I have at work, it's motherboard is going. Only cost me 40 bucks to have the PC looked at, no repairs done. The laptop I think was up above the 100 buck range but cheaper than a new one. It works great and is probably about as old as your PC. It has XP on it was well.
 
Try removing any peripherals like printers, usb sticks, cd's in the drive when you boot the pc up, also try last known good configuration from the boot menu? Think you have to press bar or F8 when its booting up. Been a while since I did any desktop support!
 
The Good Citizen said:
Try removing any peripherals like printers, usb sticks, cd's in the drive when you boot the pc up, also try last known good configuration from the boot menu? Think you have to press bar or F8 when its booting up. Been a while since I did any desktop support!

+1

If you can back up all of your data, an XP reinstall would be cheaper option, if you felt confident in doing it

Simply updating iTunes on my Vista once got a bsod :(


 
Felix said:
Ak5 said:
You got Vista?

No, I got XP.

Maybe this is a sign that I should get Vista?

I updated my 'adaptator' (not sure if that's what's called) driver... still I know there are more drivers... somewhere...

Some websites mentioned that instaling some programs can produce this error. Think that's true? I think I'll try that before recovering the system

You have updated the driver for your network adapter and this has caused the problem. Check in windows XP Device manager under "Network Adaptors" and if this is the problem you should see a little yellow triangle with an "!" next to it. It sounds like an IRQ conflict to me. If you have the motherboard driver disc that came with your computer you should be able to reinstall the driver from it to solve the problem.

Check to see if your PC has more than 512MB of RAM if so then you should think about upgrading your Operating System to Windows 7 (Vista is terrible!)

 
I've had more BSOD's on Windows 7 than I did on XP.
I miss XP.


That said, if you have been using the computer for a very long time, it could be that a file got corrupt and needs to be reinstalled. If you haven't installed anything new recently before the crashes, it could also be the hard drive starting to die. If they are happening more and more and you are doing nothing different than before, then the hard drive could be starting to lose data.
An easy way to find that out is to run chkdisk. I can't remember if it's got a different name on XP and on Win 7.
If you notice it finding bad sectors, then the hard drive may be dying.
 
Now I'm just getting BSOD when I use torrents from certain sites.

I think that removing some gigabytes and a defrag helped... not sure how... I aslo used some honeysuckle program to remove the register errors (registry cleaner).

This is really weird.
 
If you're downloading torrents, you should definitely have some sort of antivirus installed. i ignored av software becouse it slowed down my underpowered pc and got the worst virus ever. oh and checking the HDD for bad clusters is another thing to consider, but i think there are better programs than checkdisk for that (had a similar issue and chkdsk failed me so i used something called Everest i believe. long time ago, but i think that was the name)
 
One thing about the BSOD is that it flickers but for a moment, so that you can't read whats going on. There is a way in Windows to set it up so that the BSOD remains on the screen longer. Unfortunately I don't remember it, but it's out there. Being able to read the BSOD is said to be helpful. Never had a problem with torrents. Most viruses come from porn, ironically. They will completely mess you up.

One I've run into a couple times isn't a virus at all, it just installs something that tells you you have a virus and won't let you use the internet unless you buy their software.

There was a huge leap between XP and Vista having to do with upgrading from 2 516 ram, to the new 8 gigs ram style which can only be handled in Vista and 7, If I'm not mistaken. I like Vista more then Windows 7, and I liked XP more then Vista. Vista got rid of the starfield simulation screensaver, which I hate Micorsoft and Bill Gates forever for doing, and 7 got rid of the decent Aurora screensaver. If I wanted F-ing mystify, I would buy a Mac. Windows Movie Maker on Vista is excellent, but the movie maker on 7 isn't worth a ****. It lost nearly all of it's features, and when you split it pauses for a while, so that you lose a few seconds of video, this is why many of my runewind videos have so many places where they stop (Vista's movie maker won't handle Camtasia vidoes) 7's version of Windows Media Player sucks so hard, I learned to use VLC playlists, but Vista has WMP 11, which is okay, but the colors suck, 10 was better then 11, and 9 was the very best. It went downhill from there, and F-ing microsoft won't let you downgrade it. Vista gives me a lot less bugs and problems too. I have two computers, one with Vista, and another with 7, so good for comparison. There is another in my home with XP too.

Windows 7 is also the reason PCs jumped up so much in price. Cause Billionaire Bill Gates wants as much money as he can get, so he can turn around and kill us all.

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The next windows will probably suck harder, be more intrusive, less user friendly, and the programs it comes with will be even worse.

 
Phaedron said:
One thing about the BSOD is that it flickers but for a moment, so that you can't read whats going on. Not sure if anyone has said this, but there is a way in Windows to set it up so that the BSOD remains on the screen longer. Unfortunately I don't remember it, but it's out there. Being able to read the BSOD is said to be helpful. Never had a problem with torrents. Most viruses come from porn, ironically. They will completely mess you up.

One I've run into a couple times isn't a virus at all, it just installs something that tells you you have a virus and won't let you use the internet unless you buy their software.

Click "Start." Type "Advanced Settings" in the search box at the bottom of the "Start" menu. Click "View Advanced System Settings" from the list of results.

Click the "Advanced" tab and click on the "Settings" button under "Startup and Recovery."

Click to clear the check mark from the box next to "Automatically Restart" under the "System Failure" section.

Click "OK" to confirm the change and close the dialog box. The next time you receive a blue screen you will be able to note the errors before restarting the computer.
 

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