well it sounds to me like you have a problem with the drivers for your USB ports. On my win xp pro pc i had a similar problem which was caused by putting a high speed USB device into a USB port that wasn't high speed. Eventually we discovered it was a problem with our Zone Alarm firewall system (as well as not having installed our USB drivers). So i suggest disabling your firewall when not using the internet.

Hi,
now I have something which I could not find in all this very helpful site: I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 NOTEBOOK (!) which had the mentionend IQRL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL on shutting down - but as it wasn't frequently updated I thought well - what the heck - gimme all there ist to it from Microsoft and Norton. Everything installed fine, looked great - thought I'll reboot this baby and I'm fine.
Now comes the problem. The mashine will start booting XP but when switching over to full-res screen the BSOD will appear - EVEN IN SAFE MODE!!! And no related driver information.
 
What I did try: swapping RAM with other notebooks and running memtest: all ok. Entering in the recovery console and renaming EVERYTHING related to Norton/Symantec. Can't make a repair istall as I only have XP recovery disks and need to get data from the HDD. Have a 2000 boot disk from which I used the recovery console.
Tried booting knoppix Linux-on-cd, but that will fail on registering acpi-components. starting knoppix noacpi - gives no cure.
 
Any help will be appreciated.
Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600
PIII 800MHz 256kb cache
256MB RAM
20GB disk
Trident(?)-compatible video
intel 815 chipset
Guess intel 82820 Sound chip
 
Regards,
Burkhard

Hello:
 
I recently bought a NVIDIA GeForce FX video card and started to get a these IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD errors. I have researched around a bit, and I have seem a very common thing. Out of the 35 threads (around the internet) that I have read 32 of the people have a NVIDIA graphics card.
 
Like I said above I have been running XP and Windows2k on 2 different machines for years. Never had any problems until I bought this NVIDIA 128MB video card. I stuck it into my Win2K and nearly immediately had the BSOD error. I thought well.. maybe is a Win2K problem. So I stuck it into my XP.. I received the same exact error.
 
I have done just about every single thing a person can do to try to fix this error, for the last 6 months. I have finally seddled on pulling the card and not using it.
 
I suggest anyone with an NVIDIA graphics card (not on the motherboard obviously) to take out the video card and see if you still receive the errors.
 
If you don't... the NVIDIA card stikes again... good luck!

There are some people who use nVidia cards and drivers and never see this message. It is sometimes known as the infinite loop phenomenon. As far as I know, no one has found the solution. Some install different drivers and seemingly never have another problem. Anyway, if you are up for it and want to see whether or not you can ever use the card. Be sure that the nvidia drivers are completely cleaned out of your system since the residue of old drivers will cause your machine to have problems. Go here and download Drivercleaner from Driverheaven: http://www.drivercleaner.net/ Use the program in safe mode in Windows.
 
Put your card in, bring it up and install your drivers. Then, the fun begins - Most of the errors come up when using the Net or playing games. If you have the problem when surfing the net, what you will need to do is bring up taskmanager and watch the amount of memory that your programs are using. It seems that programs that use .net framework are the programs that sometimes conflict with nvidia drivers because they too use some .net programing. What I have found happening is that a program, like Cookie Crusher, which is usually very well behaved will for no reason blow up in its memory use from between 25,000 to 50,000 to as high as 250,000 in memory usage. When that happens "hello BSOD". In otherwords what is usually called a "memory error" is nothing other than running out of resources. Some LCD monitors require you to put software to run in the background of your machine, so that you can turn your monitor 90 degrees and the text flips to accomodate the rotation. Some of that software also causes difficulties. ATI also now requires .net to be installed, and those drivers are beginning to produce similar errors. Ultimately, this is something Microsoft needs to address.
 
As you said, however, there are a lot of people who just take out their nVidia cards and look elsewhere.

*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (ox20000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xF6EA8BBF)
 
 
*** USBPORT.SYS - Address F6EA8BBF base at F6E8F000, DateStamp 3f04cf17
 
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete
 
Is caused by a large paging file. Usually results in improperly shutting down or infrequent shutdowns.
to repair this .
Go To control panel/click on system Icon/ advanced tab. Performance options button. click on change button. Chnage initial size and max size to 0 . reboot....when rebooting will be prompted that windows will repair paging file. Should resolve problem. If happens frequently. Possibly hard drive failure. replace HD.

*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (ox20000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xF6EA8BBF)
 
 
*** USBPORT.SYS - Address F6EA8BBF base at F6E8F000, DateStamp 3f04cf17
 
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete
 
Is caused by a large paging file. Usually results in improperly shutting down or infrequent shutdowns.
to repair this .
Go To control panel/click on system Icon/ advanced tab. Performance options button. click on change button. Chnage initial size and max size to 0 . reboot....when rebooting will be prompted that windows will repair paging file. Should resolve problem. If happens frequently. Possibly hard drive failure. replace HD.

Originally posted by preiman:

Quote:*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (ox20000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xF6EA8BBF)  
 
*** USBPORT.SYS - Address F6EA8BBF base at F6E8F000, DateStamp 3f04cf17
 
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete
 
Is caused by a large paging file. Usually results in improperly shutting down or infrequent shutdowns.
to repair this .
Go To control panel/click on system Icon/ advanced tab. Performance options button. click on change button. Chnage initial size and max size to 0 . reboot....when rebooting will be prompted that windows will repair paging file. Should resolve problem. If happens frequently. Possibly hard drive failure. replace HD.
 
Actually, you should set your paging file manually, 1.5 times the amount of physical RAM you have for intitial size, 4 times physical RAM for maximum size, if you have less than 1gig. 1gig and up of RAM, you can lose the paging file altogether if you so desire, RAM is much faster than using the paging file to write to the HDD.

Originally posted by Relic:
Quote:1gig and up of RAM, you can lose the paging file altogether if you so desire, RAM is much faster than using the paging file to write to the HDD.  
Not entirely true as the OS will page anyway even if paging is turned off.
 
I would copy/paste from this article but it is copyrighted so here is a link to the HTML file.
 
Understanding Virtual Memory

Hey Guys....
 
I also had the same problem. And i figured out, it sometihig to do with my RAM. Bcos I have 3 DIMM modules (129MB) I removed all modules and tryed rebooting the PC with one module. I did the same thing for 3 RAM modules in three times, and with one module I got the same problem. So Im now working with 2 RAM modules so far its seems to be ok. But the only thing i noticed is my graphic acceleration is little bit slow. I guess it also could be ok if i install the XPSP2. If any one have any other solutions pls mail to : venura@gmail.com

129MB? Assuming you meant 128MB of RAM, that would be the cause of the slowdown with WinXP.

Originally posted by pasnip2000:

Quote:HELP! 
i have XP but would be massively grateful if you could help me with this little big problem. Basically Blue Screen of death seems to happen randomly, seems to be getting steadily more frequent as time goes by.
 
occasionally the whole pc just restarts and doesnt go to this blue screen but 90% of the time if it does suddenly restart it will go to this blue screen.
 
Just now it did it and it scared me because after pressing restart it wasnt booting anything and stopped on the very first screen of the start up. So shut it down and then it worked again and booted up fine.
 
Cant seem to pin point it to a program. Can work fine for hours using adobe premiere dealing with massive amounts of files on my 160gig harddrive and then sudenly crash opening a picture file or dreamweaver. I'm reasonably good with computers as they all say but when it comes down to insides of working and these blue screens i havent got a clue!!
 
All i know is it could be a RAM problem or Graphics card, but that is purely a guess so i just dont know.
 
 
Anyhelp would be very much appreciated.
 
Also big thing is cant defrag the drive , leave it for about 10 mins and come back to find teh blue screen again, the hardrive has never been defraged. Since dealing with a big harddrive thort it would be best to do, but i cant! That what brings me to think its a RAM problem but i duno! HELP!!!!!!!
 
 
 
MICROSOFT HOME EDITION xp
VERSION 2002
SERVICE PACK 1
 
AMD ATHLON XP 2600+
2.09 GHz
Ram - 1024mb
 
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
is at the top
 
 
 
Technical information:
 
*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (ox20000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xF6EA8BBF)
 
 
*** USBPORT.SYS - Address F6EA8BBF base at F6E8F000, DateStamp 3f04cf17
 
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete
 
 
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
 
 
THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP. REALLY STUCK
 

this should help you also remove one of the memory or usb connector on the m/b and or change the videocard and see sometime disconnect the cd-cdrw-dvd and only use one: or u can use the hdd as an slave and formated on an other pc works forme don't know why. and it should do it. i'm fixing this pc im testing and it works
Stop 0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
The Stop 0xA message indicates that a kernel-mode process or driver attempted to access a memory location to which it did not have permission, or at a kernel interrupt request level (IRQL) that was too high. A kernel-mode process can access only other processes that have an IRQL lower than, or equal to, its own. This Stop message is typically due to faulty or incompatible hardware or software.
 
Interpreting the Message
This Stop message has four parameters:
 
Memory address that was improperly referenced.
IRQL that was required to access the memory.
Type of access (0x00000000 = read operation, 0x00000001 = write operation).
Address of the instruction that attempted to reference memory specified in parameter 1.
If the last parameter is within the address range of a device driver used on your system, you can determine which device driver was running when the memory access occurred. You can typically determine the driver name by reading the line that begins with:
 
**Address 0xZZZZZZZZ has base at <address>- <driver name>
If the third parameter is the same as the first parameter, a special condition exists in which a system worker routine, carried out by a worker thread to handle background tasks known as work items, returned at a higher IRQL. In that case, some of the four parameters take on new meanings:
 
Address of the worker routine.
Kernel interrupt request level (IRQL).
Address of the worker routine.
Address of the work item.
Resolving the Problem
The following suggestions are specific to Stop 0xA errors. For additional troubleshooting suggestions that apply to all Stop errors, see "Stop Message Checklist" later in this appendix.
 
A Stop 0xA message might occur after installing a faulty device driver, system service, or firmware. If a Stop message lists a driver by name, disable, remove, or roll back the driver to correct the problem. If disabling or removing drivers resolves the issues, contact the manufacturer about a possible update. Using updated software is especially important for multimedia applications, antivirus scanners, and CD mastering tools.
A Stop 0xA message might also be due to failing or defective hardware. If a Stop message points to a category of devices (video or disk adapters, for example), try removing or replacing the hardware to determine if it is causing the problem.
If you encounter a Stop 0xA message while upgrading to Windows XP Professional, the problem might be due to an incompatible driver, system service, virus scanner, or backup. To avoid problems while upgrading, simplify your hardware configuration and remove all third-party device drivers and system services (including virus scanners) prior to running setup. After you have successfully installed Windows XP Professional, contact the hardware manufacturer to obtain compatible updates. For more information about simplifying your system for troubleshooting purposes, see " Troubleshooting Concepts and Strategies" and "Troubleshooting Startup" in this book.
For more information about Stop 0xA messages, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base link on the Web Resources page at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/webresources. Search using keywords winnt, 0x0000000A, and 0xA.
 
 
 
Originally posted by pasnip2000:

Quote:HELP! 
i have XP but would be massively grateful if you could help me with this little big problem. Basically Blue Screen of death seems to happen randomly, seems to be getting steadily more frequent as time goes by.
 
occasionally the whole pc just restarts and doesnt go to this blue screen but 90% of the time if it does suddenly restart it will go to this blue screen.
 
Just now it did it and it scared me because after pressing restart it wasnt booting anything and stopped on the very first screen of the start up. So shut it down and then it worked again and booted up fine.
 
Cant seem to pin point it to a program. Can work fine for hours using adobe premiere dealing with massive amounts of files on my 160gig harddrive and then sudenly crash opening a picture file or dreamweaver. I'm reasonably good with computers as they all say but when it comes down to insides of working and these blue screens i havent got a clue!!
 
All i know is it could be a RAM problem or Graphics card, but that is purely a guess so i just dont know.
 
 
Anyhelp would be very much appreciated.
 
Also big thing is cant defrag the drive , leave it for about 10 mins and come back to find teh blue screen again, the hardrive has never been defraged. Since dealing with a big harddrive thort it would be best to do, but i cant! That what brings me to think its a RAM problem but i duno! HELP!!!!!!!
 
 
 
MICROSOFT HOME EDITION xp
VERSION 2002
SERVICE PACK 1
 
AMD ATHLON XP 2600+
2.09 GHz
Ram - 1024mb
 
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
is at the top
 
 
 
Technical information:
 
*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (ox20000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xF6EA8BBF)
 
 
*** USBPORT.SYS - Address F6EA8BBF base at F6E8F000, DateStamp 3f04cf17
 
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete
 
 
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
 
 
THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP. REALLY STUCK
 

hi all.. im new here..
 
and i have a similiar problem that no-one seems to of had yet.
I only get the BSOD when i play a demanding game such as warcraft 3 or sims2 and when i get it... it says
___________________________________________________________________
A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED
WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUTDOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER
 
IRQL_NOT-lESS_OR_EQUAL
 
IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE SEEN THIS STOP ERROR SCREEN, RESTART YOUR MACHINE. IF THIS SCREEN APPEARS AGAIN, FOLLOW THESE STEPS:
 
CHECK TO MAKE SURE 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, DISBLE OR REMOVE ANY NEWLY INSTALLED HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE. DISABLE BIOS MEMORY OPTIONS SUCH AS CACHING OR SHADOWING.
 
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
 
***STOP***: 0X0000000A
(0X0343A8E2, 0X00000002, 0X00000001, 0X804EA943)
 
BEGINNING DUMP OF PHYSICAL MEMORY
PHYSICAL MEMORY DUMP COMPLETE
CONTACT YOUR SYSTEM ADMIN OR TECHNICAL SUPPORT GROUP FOR FURTHER ASSISTANCE.
_________________________________________________________________
 
also when i restart the machine.. it says its generated an error report and when i click more info.. it displays:
 
ERROR REPORT
 
Error Signiture
 
BCCODE:1000008E BCP1:C0000005 BCP2:BFC814E2 BCP3 B98EBA98
BCP4: 00000000 0Sver:5_1_2600 SP: 0_0 Product: 256_1
 
The computer specs are as follows:
 
INTEL Celeron CPU 1.70GHz
1.70GHz
512mb of RAM
80GIG HD
GForce2 graphics
Onboard sound
and it dials via internal 56k modem
 
please can someone help
 
 
Thanks in advance
 
 

Looks like some driver tried write to pageable memory at too high a process internal request level (IRQL) (driver used an incorrect memory address).
Does the BSOD mention any filename?
 
1st) Check your memory with this:
http://www.memtest.org/
2nd) Update all your drivers.
 
<offtopic>
If I am reading correctly from this:
BCCODE:1000008E BCP1:C0000005 BCP2:BFC814E2 BCP3 B98EBA98
BCP4: 00000000 0Sver:5_1_2600 SP: 0_0 Product: 256_1
 
you have not installed any service packs? For your 'own' safety, it is recommend to install service pack 2.
</offtopic>

ok.. it doesnt mention any file names (which is why i found it weird) i have run a memory test and found no errors.. and all the drivers are updated.. i am currently downloading SP2 and will keep you updated on wat happens
 
Thanks for quick response

I had this problem; something about a network problem; tried to repair windows and it didn't work. Tried to re-install windows XP and then IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL kept popping up.
 
I came here to check for solutions and checked several other places.
 
Anyway, my solution was to pull all the cards and connections that were not necessary to try to narrow it down by trying to re-install each time.
 
It was my network card.
 
 
Hope this helps!
 
 

I too have had the exact same problem many atime, all but one time it was a corrupted or outdated A drive I had to replace it with a new one and it worked fine but maybe you could download the newest one and then uninstall it and then re-install it with the newer version

To those having the BSOD's, computer spontaneously rebooting on them without notice, system not booting into Windows, computer automatically shutting down when least expected etc., & other mysterious troublesome issues take a look here:
http://www.badcaps.net/
 
From the site:
"Over the years, there have been massive quantities of name-brand, high quality motherboards failing prematurely due to these faulty electrolytic capacitors used in their manufacturing process. This has doomed MANY popular and expensive brands of motherboards, including: Abit, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Supermicro, DFI, Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM, and MANY more! "
 
System Faults:
Motherboard fails to POST.
Memory Test Fails.
System randomly and/or constantly reboots itself.
Fails to fully boot (or even install) Operating System.
System randomly and frequently freezes.
Random & frequent 'Blue Screens of Death'
BSoD or hard freeze under heavy drive activity (Either RAID, SCSI, or standard ATA)
CPU temps abnormally higher than usual under typical or less load.
*CPU VCORE & other system voltages are erratic or far out of tolerances.
Resetting the system after a freeze and the system will not repost.
(You have to completely power down then power back up.)
 
Could be a bad capacitor(s) on your motherboard or power supply.
Check out the detailed pictures & how to identify faulty capacitors:
http://www.badcaps.net/ident/
 
I was having similar issues as many describe here. My computer would suddenly reboot at random. And I was getting the BSODS as well. Tried replacing ram, graphics card, up[censored] drivers, & running Memtest software & so on, to no luck. Turns out there were 4 bad capacitors on my computer's motherboard ! After those were replaced the problems ceased to exist and the computer ran much more stable as result. Hope this helps someone here in solving the computer headaches.
cheers,
Vince

I am here because I just experienced the BSOD "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". Prior to this happening, I had installed "Aquazone virtual aquarium" Screensaver by Allume Systems. Included in this BSOD message, was a small message that my ialmrnt5 display driver had failed to work. This display driver is for the Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV 6/21/05 version 6.14.10.4342. Intel's website has a message that it no longer manufactures this driver, nor does it support it or offer any further updates for it. This is the top update you can get for this driver. Therefore, if you have this particular display driver, the only assumption I can make is that you will need to update your graphics card. One last thing I am going to try is to update my DirectX. I have version 9, but noticed that this screensaver program requires 6.1 or better, and installs version 8.0 in it's package. I'm thinking if I re-install 9.0, maybeeeeee it might do something. I doubt it, but one can only hope. My suggestion is to check your graphics chipset and if it is the 82845G or similar, that is probably the problem.

I had the same problem as many of you.
a memory dump occurred with the famed BSOD:
 
"
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
 
stop: 0x0000000A (0x000000AF, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x8050FA26)
"
 
[there was no other notable data.]
 
Here is the background:
 
I had been having problems restarting and loading into windows after the "Welcome" screen. Windows would tend to freeze about 15 seconds after displaying the Welcome screen, whether or not I logged in, this stayed relatively consistent. I was only able to get into Windows desktop upon a sacrifice to the computer god of toil and hair-pulling.
 
Up until the point of this error I had been experiencing some weird screen-tick when playing BF2 and various Valve games. In the middle of playing my screen would go black like the videocard was trying to change resolutions. This was normally harmless except that it would be aggrivating to gameplay.
 
Finally, in the middle of connecting to a CS source game server I experienced a game crash and then the system let out a f'd up screeching/static/chirping cacaphony of terror. I flipped the power switch and began to troubleshoot.
 
My solution:
I read much of the entries on the forum, and decided the problem may rest with my videocard or my soundcard. I'd recently done a driver reinstall of the soundcard, which is why i suspected that as well.
 
I went into safe mode with netoworking and downloaded "Nasty File Remover," the driver for my videocard, and the driver for my soundcard. I had to restart and get back into safe mode to make sure that I got rid of all references to the previous files.
 
Using Nasty file remover I removed all associated drivers for my Nvidia card and Creative SB Audigy 2.
 
I then installed the audio, restarted, went back into Safe Mode and repeated the process with the Video.
 
So far, This has fixed my freezing problems and sped up my computer a bit. Hopefully this will hold out as a solution for me, and hopefully it will work for some others as well.
 
I'm posting this as thanks for the posts before me that helped to fix my broken computer.
 
 
System
ASUS p4c800-e deluxe running bios 1022
P4 2.8ghz w/HT
1024 MB corsair 400 DDR
GeForce FX5900 Ultra
SB Audigy 2
120Gb Western Digital HD
400GB maxtor HD
Logitech wireless MX laser mouse
Microsoft keyboard