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03-Nov-2009, 01:53 PM #1
os fails to boot
once again I find myself here.
My recently purchased second hand desktop kept restarting, so I decided to reinstall vista home premium.
Now I cant get passed various error messages, which disappear before I can write them down.
One has something to do with memory, one is definitely:irql_not_less_or_equal
There were no issues with booting before this, just with crashing.
Vista is courtesy of the tech guys at pc world, and when I run their diagnostics I get bsod with the error messages.
Now I can't even install vista without doing so on another computer and switching the hard drives.
I have a 1.67gb amd sempron 2400+ with 1.25gb ram installed.
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03-Nov-2009, 02:58 PM #2
Hi this is some info on your irql error message
0x0000000A: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
(Click to consult the online MSDN article.)
Typically due to a bad driver, or faulty or incompatible hardware or software. Use the General Troubleshooting of STOP Messages checklist above. Technically, this error condition means that a kernel-mode process or driver tried to access a memory location to which it did not have permission, or at a kernel Interrupt ReQuest Level (IRQL) that was too high. (A kernel-mode process can access only other processes that have an IRQL lower than, or equal to, its own.)

As to your memory you could try running memetest86+ download it and burn to a disc and test your ram one stick at a time use imgburn to burn
http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http:/...y&ved=0CAoQygQ

http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download it would be a help if you can post the error messages that you have missed try pressing pause and see if you can read them
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04-Nov-2009, 06:10 AM #3
finall managed o gain access hrough the f8 key, after trying to repair(which it wouldn't), I clicked on the kernel debugging option.
I now have full access, and fingers crossed, no bsod or crashes yet.
Do you know what the kernel debugger does at all?
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04-Nov-2009, 02:42 PM #4
Hi not my field i imagine it may have fixed a boot issue
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04-Nov-2009, 05:52 PM #5
Thats what I was thinking just wondered waht it did
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