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BSOD/crashes. IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Hi there Seven Forums. I have been having a lot of trouble for over a year now with a computer I put together. I have done a lot of research, tried reinstalling Windows and even tried other versions of Windows 7, but the problem still remains. I spent a lot of money at the time on the machine and I have never really gotten full use out of it as it constantly, at some point, crashes. It can go days without crashing, but it will still crash.
I have attached the report files as a zip following the Posting Instructions page.
Asus M4A87TD-USB3 | 4G Kit ddr3 1333 Kingston (2x2GB) | AM3 x4 955 - AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor 3.20 GHz (stock cooler, no over clock) | 1gb GTX 460 Gigabyte (GPU) | Antec TruePower TP-550 | and a SATA DVD drive and hard drive
It rates 5.4 on the Windows Experience Index due to Disk data transfer rate, otherwise it would be 7.3.
I have Windows 7 64 bit on there. I have formatted the drive and reinstalled Windows 7 three times now (although it is possible, though extremely improbable, that a virus snuck in there when a USB drive was attached).
The two most common BSOD messages have been:
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
STOP: 0x0000000A (0xFFFFFC0003452588, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000001, 0xFFFFF800032C89A4)
and
STOP: 0x0000001E (0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)
I have burned Ultimate Boot CD and ran a scan on the video memory, that ran for 40 hours with no errors until I stopped it to run another test. I then ran a test on the memory, that ran fine also. I couldn't run any CPU tests from the CD, so I ran Prime95 from Windows itself, and that ran for 40 hours before the computer restarted while I was out of the room. The computer was running at 100 percent CPU according to task manager during this test. According to SpeedFan temps during this test did not go over 86 degrees, the fan would run faster to push the temps down, so that seemed to be running fine. With nothing running temps are about 36 degrees.
I have reset the BIOS in the BIOS settings, I have reset CMOS using UBCD and I even zero formatted the hard drive on the last reinstall. I clean it for dust, but it doesn't really look like overheating is the problem.
Nothing has driven me more crazy than this computer. I don't understand programming and bug reports, but it looks like Seven Forums is much more used to these problems than any of the other forums I've visited for help, so fingers crossed that whatever is causing these problems can be fixed or replaced!