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glitch · 10-08-2003, 20:55

Help?

My PC (XP) keeps on rebooting without warning, and blue-screens during the restart, with the following error message:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL

What does that mean?

Everything had been running smoothly up until yesterday, and for some stupid, stupid, stupid reason, I decided to take a trip over to Windows Update and see if there was anything worth sticking on my pc. A quick check later, and eight updates were installing themselves onto my humble hard-drive. And then it crashed. About half way through the installation of something (might have been the newest Direct X, I can't remember) and that's when I started to get the rebooting/blue screening/bloody stupid error messages.

I attempted to take XP back to an earlier configuration, before the update that fecked my system, and when I knew my 'puter was working safely... That didn't work. So I played about with Windows in safe mode trying to rectify the situation... That didn't work either. So I then use the recovery disk shipped with my pc to reinstall windows, saving all my user-files to a certain area... Which kinda works.

I've just re-installed XP and the recovery disk is asking me to remove the CD and reboot the 'puter, all good... Until I press the 'Open' button on the CD-Drive and my 'puter reboots and blue-screens with the IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL message.

I've since been messing about with the damn computer, and it keeps crashing at random moments, and the IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL message keeps appearing. I can't find any mention of it on the interweb, or at least not any answer as to what it means...

Any ideas guys? I'm sure it's got something to do with those sodding Windows Updates, but I'm really stuck.

PC Specs: Althon 1400, 256 Meg Ram, GeForce3, Soundblaster Live, Win XP.

10-08-2003, 20:55	#1
glitch Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Wokingham Posts: 16	Irql_not_less_than_equal Help? My PC (XP) keeps on rebooting without warning, and blue-screens during the restart, with the following error message: IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL What does that mean? Everything had been running smoothly up until yesterday, and for some stupid, stupid, stupid reason, I decided to take a trip over to Windows Update and see if there was anything worth sticking on my pc. A quick check later, and eight updates were installing themselves onto my humble hard-drive. And then it crashed. About half way through the installation of something (might have been the newest Direct X, I can't remember) and that's when I started to get the rebooting/blue screening/bloody stupid error messages. I attempted to take XP back to an earlier configuration, before the update that fecked my system, and when I knew my 'puter was working safely... That didn't work. So I played about with Windows in safe mode trying to rectify the situation... That didn't work either. So I then use the recovery disk shipped with my pc to reinstall windows, saving all my user-files to a certain area... Which kinda works. I've just re-installed XP and the recovery disk is asking me to remove the CD and reboot the 'puter, all good... Until I press the 'Open' button on the CD-Drive and my 'puter reboots and blue-screens with the IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL message. I've since been messing about with the damn computer, and it keeps crashing at random moments, and the IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL message keeps appearing. I can't find any mention of it on the interweb, or at least not any answer as to what it means... Any ideas guys? I'm sure it's got something to do with those sodding Windows Updates, but I'm really stuck. PC Specs: Althon 1400, 256 Meg Ram, GeForce3, Soundblaster Live, Win XP.