Blue Screen of DEATH!!!!

[Pezza]

Ok, so I made myself this computer and installed Windows XP Pro and I’ve been getting the blue screen of death with some regularity, this is the exact screen...

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

If this is the first time you’ve seen this stop error screen, then restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to make sure that any new hardware or software is properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer for any windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software, disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select safe mode.

Technical Information:
***Stop: 0x0000000A (0x18F7A46A, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8053E3C7)

Or

***Stop: 0x0000000A (0x18F7956A, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8053E3C7)

Or

***Stop: 0x0000000A (0x00F793F6, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8053E3C7)

Or

***Stop: 0x0000000A (0x18F73CAA, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8053E3C7)

Or

***Stop: 0x0000008E (0x80000003, 0xF7C9EF68, 0xF7C9EF4C, 0x00000000)

Or

***Stop: 0x000000D1 (0x55B938BB, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xF76C4828)


(All stop error codes are followed with this...)


Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete
Contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance.

(After restarting as normal, I get a Windows report request screen. I click on details of the error report and get the following message, I did this the first time only, so these error signatures more than likely change each time to match the stop errors.

Microsoft Windows
Error signiture
BCCode : a BCP1 : 18F7A46A BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000001
BCP4 : 8053E3C7 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 256_1

This is my computer:

Shuttle ST61G4
3gig P4 (800Mhz) Hyper threading 512k cache CPU
ATI RS300 chipset + 800FSB + DDR400
Radeon 9100 onboard graphics
8x AGP + 6ch Audio + LAN + SATA RAID
120gig Maxtor SATA 7200rpm UDMA 150 HDD
512MB DDR400 PC3200 RAM
Sony CD R/RW DVD/R Rom drive

I went to the Microsoft Updates page and DL’d all updates, drivers and patches, I did a full virus scan with Norton 2004 with up to date virus definitions and came up clean, I have run system checks on ALL pieces of hardware and they are all ‘working correctly’.

I have been to Microsoft support pages and the stop codes would indicate that I have one of the following problems:

- Faulty or missing driver
- Faulty Hardware
- Faulty Software
- Software or Hardware compatibility problem

Now this is just a little to general, can anyone decipher those error code parameters for me? I just don’t understand them, if they can be interpreted they can lead me directly to the driver/software or piece of hardware that is causing the problems, right? My friend seems to think that it is an XP compatibility issue and that I should go back to Windows 2000 professional.

- Pezza

[Ranger Bob]

This MSKB article explains how to troubleshoot this problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;314063