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BSOD once a week
I am getting BSOD screen once a week ever since I started using my new motherboard a few months ago. It re-boots fine. I bought an ASUS P5Q SE PLUS the BSOD error is:
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
The IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error is caused by a buggy device driver or an actual hardware conflict. If you've recently added new hardware to your system, try removing it and see if the error goes away. Likewise, if you've recently loaded a new device driver, you might try using ERD Commander Professional Edition, by Winternals Software, to temporarily disable the new driver and see if the problem goes away.
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit. The last hardware and driver I installed was my graphics card ASUS EN9800GT with driver: 8.17.11.9713 which I downloaded from the Nvidia web site.
When I first bought the MB I flashed the BIOS to the latest available ver. 2204 I did a clean install reformatting the hard drive. I then installed all the Win 7 (32bit) drivers available from the ASUS web site (Except for the RAID drivers which I won't use anyway) then I installed the graphics driver.
I contacted ASUS support and they said BSOD screens usually occur with memory issues. They asked me to run a memory diagnostic test (Which I did x2 and it checked out fine using Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool and Memtest86 v. 4.10) They also told me that if the memory test was OK that I could RMA my motherboard.
It doesn't make sense to me to RMA the motherboard if the problem turns out to be a driver problem??
Last edited by Timewarpone; 19 May 2010 at 22:41. Reason: Spelling