Drivers

  1. #1
    fred rogers is offline Newbie

    Drivers

    Recently my computer has been going to this blue screen and says the follwoing...
    DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

    Now today it wont even let me start my computer up. It goes to blue screen and i cant enter safe mode or anything. It now says this error...
    *** STOP: 0X0000007E (0XC0000005,0X7D7FBB28,0XF789E3BC,0XF789E0B8)
    I cant disable drivers i think because i cant get into debug mode or safe mode without the error stopping me and im lost on what to do now.

    Any help?

    Its windows xp. i dont know many specs but i know it has 512mb of ramm

  2. #2
    Ztruker is offline Technical Guest
    Hi Fred.

    The first thing I would do is test your memory (RAM). Defective ram can cause all kinds of errors, including this one.

    There are two programs that are normally used to test computer memory, Memtest86+ and Microsoft Memory Diagnostic. They are available from the following locations:

    Memtest86+
    Microsoft Memory Diagnostic

    They are bootable CD ISO images. You don't burn the iso file itself to CD., you create a CD from the iso file using your CD burning software. There is a good freeware burner called ImgBurn which will do this easily if your burner software doesn't handle .iso file.

    Let it run for at least 3 full passes, overnight is even better.

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