Blue screen (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL)

I always get the
driver_irql_not_less_or_equal error message


and on the bottom it changes from like
tascam (my recording software)

or usbhub or something like that..

idk what causes it to turn blue or randomly turn off but does anyone have suggestions for how i can fix it or show you my error logs?

 

When you get the error message, does the screen turn blue with white text?

edit: silly question, you said it turns blue. When does it do this?

 

Hi.
I had this same problem last week on a new computer is was building, I searched the net a lot to find out what could cause this.

Eventually I found out it was the mobo drivers that came with the motherboard being out of date already.
The only way I could keep the comp on long enough was to leave a disc in the dvd drive, which meant my computer stayed on long enough to download and install the new drivers after that it was sorted.

Like I said I did a lot of reading, other people that had this message said that they found the problem to be their RAM.

Can you post a few more details of when it does it, i.e before you get to the windows desktop or does it load the desktop then do it?
What have you changed on ur comp, hardware, software drivers, how old is your comp?

 

common causes for BSOD upon startup include: bad hard drive, corrupt Windows files, viruses, bad drivers, RAM, hardware failure, solar flares, disturbances in the force....

 

yes the screen turns blue with white text.

it randomly does this like ive had it not happen to me for a week and i've had it happen 2times in a day.

and its not cuz of what programs i run cuz i run usually the same programs all the time.


this is a brand new lenovo thinkpad laptop and it has 2 GB ram

 

possibly overheating CPU?

Have you run the memory test? could be on its way out.

do you plug any usb devices in before this happens?

 

well yea i mean i have downloaded quite a few torrents so idk if thats the root of the problem. but i only downloaded ones with lots of seeds so i figured they're pretty safe?

and yea i plug in 3 usbs: a tascam us144 interface (music recording device), a usb mouse, and a usb webcam

 

hmm yea i noticed there were some ? and ! and X's and stuff because my computer doesnt recognize USB's automatically like other computers do

iinitially the computer came as vista but they gave me the xp installation disc so i installed XP instead.. could that be the reason why it doenst automatically recognize the USBs that i input? and does anyone know how to get it so it automatically does recognize them so i wont have to manually install drivers every time?