Blue screens caused by possible driver problems

[ch00p]

Lately, I've been getting the dreaded blue screens with the following error message:

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Technical Information:
***STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x001201c3, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xAF771B6)

Each time, it says that a memory dump occurs, that I should make sure to check any recently-installed software and hardware, and that I should disable caching and shadowing on my mobo. I went ahead and uninstalled all software that's been installed in the last month. I checked my mobo's manufacturer website and forums and presented the problem there, and apparently, my mobo doesn't support disabling shadowing and caching. Every so often, the blue screen comes up, and if I'm playing games, my computer would spontaneously shut off completely and instantaneously. When try to boot up my computer again, it will again shut off completely and instantaneously on the Windows boot screen. It takes me about 3-5 tries to be able to fully boot up my computer again.

I've checked online for driver updates, and all my drivers are apparently up to date, yet this problem still persists. 

[Broni]

http://tweaksforgeeks.com/IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.html

every time I've run into it it's been a hardware error. Most commonly it is the CPU overheating. A close second would be bad RAM.

[NOT ADMIN :P]

incorrect.

What video cards are you using??

If they are nvidia. BINGO.

I just solved this problem with the same error with my 2 8800GT's running in SLI.

SOLUTION: Go to nvidia control panel, (right click* and its in that menu)

go to video options or something similar and select that all the option are set to "determine by software/game"

If you have any options forced on that the game you are playing does not support that is what crashes your system.

Otherwise you may just have to DL a previous version of your video card driver which may not have any problems.

Quite often they are not tested fully and people experience that error and revert back to a previous driver until the new one is fixed

[Broni]

incorrect.

Wow!

[NOT ADMIN :P]

Im hoping this worked???

wouldnt want to correct Broni and then be wrong 

I heard he has well developed mind control and can eat your brain thru the internet. :O

*all information supplied by quaxo, and he should be punished for anything that i have done wrong*

[BC_Programmer]

umm- patio never posted in this thread irrelevant, I know. and, so far.




how would the Nvidia drivers cause a spontaneous reboot? Although windows Loads them it doesn't actually call on them until it gets to the welcome/logon screen.(I think)

Also if his computer is fairly old (AMD K6-2, Pentium 2, etc) then essentially any driver software after around 2001 will cause the IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL (with my old AMD K6-2, I couldn't play Midi's with the MIDI synthesizer, and god forbid I install ANY Nvidia graphics card...)


The key here is what did you install right before this started happening?

[NOT ADMIN :P]

thanks to the edit function it is now BS_programmer who looks the fool.

[BC_Programmer]

lol blast u! And it's BC_programmer, no BS, although that would be a neat name.