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BSOD - occurs at random times
I have had blue screen crashes for a couple of months now. Sometimes they occur many times a day, sometimes not at all. They don't seem tied to specific applications or activity, and sometimes occur when I'm not actively using the computer.
About a month ago I had a crash that was so bad that Windows wouldn't boot at all. It would always hang after the "Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM v7.6.1.1001 ICH9R" screen, then go black. After doing some diagnosis I decided to replace my hard drive, and do a fresh installation of Windows. Everything ran fine for about a week, then the blue screens started occurring again, usually MEMORY_MANAGEMENT errors.
Before my re-installation, I was getting IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL blue screens, and a message on my Dell mini-screen "memory modules are detected but a memory failure has occurred. I tested isolating each of my 4 memory sticks, but couldn't pinpoint a bad one. I also ran memtest86, and it showed no issues with my memory.
Attached are the files outlined in the BSOD posting instructions. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. This was been a very frustrating problem.
Thanks,
Dave
System specs:
Box: Dell XPS 420 (approximately 3.5 years old)
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. The OS has been reinstalled on a new hard drive 2 weeks ago. It is an upgrade license that was installed on top of Vista
CPU: Intel Core Duo E6850 3.00GHz
Motherboard: CN-0TP406-70821-7AC-K0XU (Came with Dell XPS 420)
Memory: 6GB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4650
Sound Card: Creative Soundblaster X-Fi