AidenC

Hi all,
Im new to the forums but it seems a real friendly place to go for advice. I have been having problems with my relativly(8 months) new PC. The problem started the day after i recieved the machine, while on the desktop the PC then crashed to the 'blue screen of death' with the error code Driver_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, at this point I restarted the PC and it was fine. I first thought it could be a driver problem so i updated my graphics card driver with the newer version. The problem then went away for about 3 weeks and would happen again, again a restart would fix the problem, this was annoying but bearable and carried on crashing randomly over the next 3-4 months. The pc would restart ok so I just plodded on with it the way it was. The problem started to get worse in February, after it crashed with the same error code the PC would not restart, it would only boot up as far as the windows vista loading bar screen and stay there (i even left it there overnight to see if it would ever load), I then tried to load in safe mode, though this would also fail when it got up to the point Windows/system32/drivers/crcdisk . My next idea to rectify it was to do a repair, so i used the vista disk and selected repair, it seemed to take forever to attempt the repair (much longer than it should) and this also would not work, I then thought i would try to reformat the HDD and reload Vista onto it incase the problem was any irreparable system files, It wouldnt seem to work at first but then eventually i reloaded Vista onto it, 20min after it was working fine it happened again so I then thought it could be a problem with the Hard drive, so I got another HDD to try to rule it out as the problem and loaded Vista onto it. The PC then loaded up and seemed to be working as normal, that was until i loaded the windows updates onto it and then the PC crashed again and failed to restart, at this point I thought I was getting somewhere thinking that the cause of my problem was possibly a windows update so I then proceeded to reinstall Vista again and I turned automatic updates off. At first this worked, I had my PC running problem free for the next month and the out of nowhere the Blue screen appeared again with the same message, again at first the PC restarted fine and over the next few weeks I got the occassional crash but nothing as bad, that was untill a few days ago when the same problem came back, and currently it wont start.

Sorry for the lentgh of the post but i thought id try to expand on it as much as possible as im starting to pull out my hair :D

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

Aiden

PS this is the last blue screen error message :D


Driver_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

*** STOP 0X000000D1 (0X0000002C, 0X00000002, 0X00000000, 0X807873C4)

***nvstor.sys - address 807873C4 base at 80783000

date stamp 458d543d