DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL…???

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yo again, mates…!!!

my old machine…running XP Pro…that I sold to my friend…got a ‘blue screen of death stop error’ message…but the stop #’s read differently from other errors of the same type I searched out on the web.

his reads: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. STOP…0x488422ecd (bear in mind…it goes to a blank screen after the blue screen really quick…there’s 4 or 5 stop # sequences in the chain, I think…but I only had time to scribble down one.

when I searched this sequence at the knowledge base…microsoft hadn’t even heard of it.

(&…nothin’ comes up for that stop # on google, either)

they (microsoft) say that it reads (on an XP-based computer): DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)…

& have a fix package #’d: 916595…which I downloaded…transfered to a thumb drive…& will attempt to install on his machine in safe mode tommorrow.

but I’m pretty certain I got that stop number copied down correctly.

this is weird…it bothers me that the stop chain reads differently on his box.

any thoughts or ideas…???

thanks,

mark4man

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This error is usually a bad driver or bad RAM.

Joe

--Joe

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I’ve had this error before and it usually means a piece of hardware has gone.

Its unlikely to be the HDD (the machine partially booted after all). Try disconnecting the cd drive

David

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ok…

thanks all…

UPDATE:

The utility BlueScreenView showed me the following:

STOP: 0x100000d1 (0x48422ecd, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x86203c88)
NDIS.sys -Address 0xf7698b6c base at 0xf7692000

In the main view, where it highlights problem drivers, it highlighted the following:

NDIS.sys
ntoskrnl.exe

any ideas…??? (& I’m also searching myself)

thanks again,

mark4man

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NDIS.SYS is a related to your NIC (network interface card). You can try updating the NIC drivers or replacing the NIC.

Joe

--Joe

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joe…

thanks.

there is no card…it’s integrated onto the mobo.

so…I grabbed the broadcom diagnostic utility AND the latest driver from Dell.

thanks again,

mf

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