Bsod. Irql_not_less_or_equal

I havent had any BSOD's since I ran driver verifier, but I did have a few days before that I believe.


Also, thanks for that slartybart, I'll be sure to put my HDD's back into the intel sockets when I next go into my machine!

That's good to know, post back any results :)

I just put my other ram stick back in, and put my SATA connectors back in their original sockets.

Do you want me to run driver verifier again? Or try those two disks I burned, or just see how things go?

Test the two discs, and then see how things go :)

Both disks still refusing to detect my hard drives. :/

Does Windows still detect your drives? It may be the program itself, or the speed in which you burn the program files to the CD/DVD.

If Windows still detects the drives, then I would wait until another BSOD.

I'm not sure what you mean exactly by 'windows' , but they show up in the 'Computer' folder, in disk management, and in the BIOS. Basically anywhere I can think to look.

My optical drive is a BluRay if that could cause the issue? As for the speed at which the disk are burnt, I don't have any control over that. I'm just using the disk image burner built into windows.

I mean Disk Management, and did you burn the program to a Blu-Ray DVD? I'm not entirely sure if 'normal' DVDs are compatible with Blu-Ray optical drives

Okidoke. They do show up in disk management. And, I just burnt the programs to regular DVD's. I don't have any bluray disks, not even any films lol.

I'd expect they should be compatible, but then again, I'm not quite sure. I guess there could be something 'special' about computer game disks, OS disks etc which make them work. Or it could be the programs on the disk that don't like bluray drives.

A quick google search doesn't provide any answers...except where to buy blank dvds.

I would leave this thread open for about a week, and then post back your results.