Windows problem

[Squigi63]

Recently windows has been acting up on me and i can't figue what is wrong it seems to reboot at random times. Then it asks me to send a rebooot to microsoft because it just recovered from a serious crash. Here is what microsoft tells me:

Error caused by a device driver

Thank you for sending an error report to Microsoft.

Error report summary

Error type : Windows stop error (A message appears on a blue screen with error code information)
Solution available? : No (see Next steps)
What does this error mean? : Windows has encountered an error from which it cannot recover and needs to restart
Cause : Unknown device driver
Computer symptoms : A message appears on a blue screen with error code information (for example: e.g. 0x0000001E, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED)
Additional steps for you to take : Important: Please continue to send error reports so analysts at Microsoft can study and try to correct the problem as quickly as possible

anything you guys can do can help, thanks in advance.

[DaStinger77]

If its a device driver id update them all, Video, Sound, maybe even mobo or chipset drivers.

[Squigi63]

okay i'll try updating my video and sound card and leave the mobo to last.

[Squigi63]

okay, updated my sound and video card and it still rebooting randomly. One thing I noticed is today when i got home, i was at the logon screen, is that i got the same error twice. Does anyone have a program that my help me. And when updating my mobo does that me updating the bios, and how do i go about updating my chipset. I stayed away from those types of updates because I never had a floppy drive and didnt want to screw anything up.

[UniverseJDJ]

Chipset drivers are installed through Windows. Normally for these weird situations, it isn't recommend to update the BIOS but I'm not sure if this is possible without a floppy.

EDIT: Typo fixed.

[refraction]

Originally Posted by UniverseJDJ

Chipset drivers are installed through Windows. Normally for these weird situations, it is recommend to update the BIOS but I'm not sure if this is possible without a floppy.

wtf? where have you been reading? its recommended you do NOT update your bios unless you have reason to believe thats causing your problems, which in this case i sincerely doubt.

[UniverseJDJ]

Typo. Fixed.

[Squigi63]

Okay, I'm confuzzled. Do I want to update my bios or not. I do have a floppy drive it's my old computer that didn't. My mother board is a A8N-sli Deluxe if it helps.

[Master Chief]

Originally Posted by Squigi63

Okay, I'm confuzzled. Do I want to update my bios or not. I do have a floppy drive it's my old computer that didn't. My mother board is a A8N-sli Deluxe if it helps.

Only if you are sure it might be causing the problem. I would check around the net first tho, before you do this to see if other people had this problem and updating the BIOS fixed it.

What you could do is buy a BIOS Savior. Its basically an extra BIOS chip, with a switch to switch back to your old BIOS if the need arises. You flash the new BIOS onto the BIOS Savior, if it fixes your problems, cool! If it gets even worse, switch back. That simple.

I doubt the BIOS needs to be updated. You might have a corrupted system file that is causing this problem.

Also search on Google for KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. Microsoft has a whole knowledge base of information online about errors and stuff.

[Hard core Rikki]

Do NOT update your bios. Rebooting at random? Perhaps the Starforce drivers? They do that quite often if you got programs it doesn't 'like'.

- Did you try the Safe mode? The System Restore feature.

- What EXACTLY did you install/remove BEFORE this ever happened? An antivirus? Updated drivers?


http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=kb;fr;275678

for the error KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED - code : 0x0000001E, Go into safe mode, msconfig, boot options and unselect everything. System will not be performing slow like turtle of course.

Simply cleanly removing Panda once tricked a friend into a similar situation. Lost NTLDR, so unable to boot.

[DaStinger77]

Do not update your BIOS, do update your chipset drivers: nvidia, via, sis, ati, whatever yours is

[Nameless]

I seconed trying system restore to a period before all this started.

Did you update any drivers recently or have anything set to auto-update?

It's most likely unrelated but do a full virus and spyware scan

[lord_muad_dib]

go to control panel>system>advanced>startup&recovery

uncheck automatically reboot after crash or something like that.

then reboot.

next time it crashes it will show you a bsod with more infos(hopefully the name of the involved dll)

[KillerShots]

Originally Posted by Squigi63

Then it asks me to send a rebooot to microsoft...

Damn... there's been times I'd wanted to do that

[Hard core Rikki]

Better SAFE than SORRY.

Backup your father's important docs before something happens and makes you unwelcome home.

Once everything is backuped, you'd be able to safely think about a re-format followed by XP reinstallation.

[Squigi63]

Sorry its been a while but i was trying lord's approach and it took awhile for me to get this thing to reboot.

Pretty much it was blah blah blah

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

more blah blah

0x0000000A (0x850004A8, 0x000000FF,0x0000000, 0x8053e40A)

and then it said it was rebooting. That was it didn't point to any file. I'm going to go try msconfig now.

[WindHydra]

I think most blue screens says "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" At least for me...
Got quite a few after updating a radeon driver. I think something messed up. After using the radeon driver cleaner (cat-uninstaller) and reinstall everything went fine.

[lord_muad_dib]

even if this error means nothing(eheh) with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL you're almost sure it's not an hardware problem but mostly a driver problem.
it happens even in safe mode?

[industrian]

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is classic. Used to have it all the time when I tried installing my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro.

If you have PCI cards, try moving them to different slots and make sure the drivers are verified, etc.

[Squigi63]

Okay, time for an update.

I've been living with this for long enough so i began to uninstall everything. Then I remebered i had a 10GB harddrive from an old comp that i wasnt using so I began to install XP. I tried twice to install and both times i got the blue screen. So the problem is hardware not soft. I took out a stick of RAM but my machine wouldn't post. I needs a stick in the third slot so I moved what was in the first slot to third and everything is working fine.

What should I do? I did a mem test that showed that the RAM was fine.