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Blue Screen Of Death!

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hung

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May 22, 2005
Hey guys, got a little problem when I'm reformating.
Whenever I try to reformat with my XP Pro disk, everything goes fine while Windows is copying the files, and then it crashes to a blue screen with
"DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_MORE" error
and on the bottom you'll see
"Begininning to dump physical memory"

I've looked up all the codes on the Windows Site like
"STOP: 0x000000D1"
but no help.

I've tried swapping different hard drives and cdroms, and it still gives me the error. The last thing I did was swapped my ATA hard drive to a SATA hard drive. All you have to do is plug it in and enable it in the bios correct? Cause that's all I did. It might be something wrong with the IRQL, don't know what that is.

Usually when I see this screen, it's because of my memory, or a bad overclock. But I don't think there's anything wrong with my components.
Here's what I got.

Pentium 4 3.0C Prescott
Abit IC7-Max 3
Corsair XMS Twin X (CMX512 - 3200C2PT) 4 Sticks
Evga Geforce 6800 GT Ultra 256MB
Creative Audigy 2 Platinum
Seagate 80GB - SATA150
Maxtor 200GB - ATA133
Aspire 500Watt

Anybody else have this problem?
 
Try installing it with just the bare essentials, such as video card, ram, 1 hdd etc..
Could also try running a memtest on your ram to see how thats holding.
 
I think I am using the bare essentials LOL
tried swapping my sound card around a bit, didn't help.
Let's see...I would have to do the memtest on a computer that is actually working huh, haha.
 
you can get a bootdisk or basic ISo that would load straight into memtest :p
 
No, not at the moment, sorry LOL
I'm just going to keep reformatting and see what happens. =\

Oh god I'm about to place an add out
"If anyone can find out whats wrong with my computer, i'll give you $50!!"
:D
 
Yeah, I took out all the ram, except for 1 stick of 512MB.
Right now, I'm following these steps from MS.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314063
Cause everytime, I get a different BSOD error message.
And the weird thing is that, when XP Pro is copying the files, it can't copy some of the files sometimes and I have to press enter to retry. hmm..
 
Yeah just tried that, now new error messages show up, oh god, I'm doomed! :p
 
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