IRQL Not Less Or Equal?

Hello,

I have been getting the Blue Screen Of Death with the message 'IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL', almost every time I quit 'Internet Explorer'. It never happens when I am not online using desktop programs and games etc. It seems to have started when I installed a broadband router via ethernet cable. I'm guessing it must be a driver or IRQ conflict, but I'm not sure. I have recently replaced the memory with new ram, but that hasn't solved it. I am about to install a wireless router to see if that can solve the problem, but I would greatly appreciate any help with this annoying problem.


Regards

DOM2

 

What file does the error reference when it does it? That's the first clue.

 

I get the Stop message

0x00000007A (0x00000014, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804f02A2)

and dumping of Physical memory

 

There's no name of a file? something.sys?

 

The 0x0....7A is generally something to do with the hard drive or its controller drivers.

Have a look here for more information

 

I couldn't find much from the link you provided, but have noticed during a defrag of the hard drive, that there was a RAID ACCESS FAILURE. Would this be related? It only seems to happen when I quit Internet Explorer after a couple of hours or more.

 

Hi All,

I've been lurking in numerous threads now for the past week trying to find a solution to by IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL stop error and I found an unorthodox solution to my problem which I would like to share.

Problem: I keep getting the annoying BSOD, IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL stop error on the girlfriends laptop when I try to add it to my home network via CAT5. Upon plugging in an ethernet cable I immediatly got the BSOD. The laptop would also BSOD at windows startup if booted with cable plugged in.

Hardware: Toshiba Portege 2000 with XP Pro, all stock hardware. Have succesfully networked laptop before.

Initial Remedies tried: 1) Update networking drivers
2) Un-installed ALL networking drivers and let Windows find them again
3) Rolled back the drivers
4) Found that several devices share IRQ 11 so I tried update/rollback/uninstall on those devices as well.
5) I moved the DSL modem usb connection from my computer to the laptop usb. Same problem

I thought the NIC was faulty by this stage untill out of intrest I tried SAFE MODE WITH NETWORKING and networking was working! The NIC therefore works. Since it BSOD upon windows startup there must be some service/app that starts with windows that is causing the conflict.

Ran MSCONFIG and found a massive amount of apps in STARTUP. Many of these I did not recognise and am suspicious. I removed everything non-critical from STARTUP and SERVICES and am now re-enabling services as required. I used the following articles for reference;

MSCONFIG Overview: http://www.netsquirrel.com/msconfig/

STARTUP apps list http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

The laptop now networks fine (in normal mode) and also boots much quicker without all that usless crap weighing it down. I definetly recommend tuning with MSCONFIG once in a while, you may be suprised with what you find

Andyman

 

Msconfig is a great tool. Especially to remove those pesky programs that think they don't need your permission to attach themselves to the system startup. The less startup apps, the better.