seekermeister Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 I just did a fresh install of MCE, and at first, the drive was working as it should. But earlier today, it failed the installation of my printer driver, and afterward would cause Windows to freeze regardless of which program disk that I tried to run on it. At first, it just froze and I had to do a hard shutdown, but the last several times that I tried it, it froze for a few seconds and then BSODed with 0xD1 stop error. I rebooted into another OS and the drive works fine, so it seems that hardware is ruled out. I uninstalled the burner from the Device Manager and rebooted, but this didn]t help. Then I used the Recovery Console to run CHKDSK /R, but no joy. I thought about running a system restore, but I would have to go back to the original installation configuration and lose everything that I have done since. I'm considering doing a repair installation, but after thinking about it, I started thinking about the error. It was "IRQ not less or equal", which I believe has to do with memory allocation. I checked a guide online, but none of the MS KBs had any relationship to the drive. Can I check or reset something to prevent the IRQ conflict? I hope that someone can advise me on this, because until I get this cleared up, I don't want to activate the OS, and until I do, I can't download any updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 IRQ errors can have a number of causes - memory being only one.What I tend to do with this type of error is disconnect all non-essential components of a machine (including multiple sticks of RAM) and then gradually add components in turn, rebooting after each addition. I do this in order of importance to the machine. You will get to a point where the culprit is found or, if you're very lucky (it happened to me once) you can put everything back and the machine works perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seekermeister Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 Thanks, but as I said, the problem does not exist in other OSs that I have in my multiboot system (including another installation of MCE), so it seems unlikely that any kind of hardware is the problem. Looking at it on the software side, is there more to consider than just the IRQs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 Is this the error you get?0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUALThe system attempted to access pageable memory using a kernel process IRQL that was too high. The most typical cause is a bad device driver (one that uses improper addresses). It can also be caused by caused by faulty or mismatched RAM, or a damaged pagefile.You might want to make sure all your drivers are up to date, and compatible with your current Operating System. I also found this on Microsoft's site - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=839876&sd=RMVP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seekermeister Posted December 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 Scarecrow Man,Yes that is the error, but I'm using the same drivers that I used in my old MCE installation, and as far as I know, none have been updated. The driver for the burner is native, so that can't be updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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