BSOD
19 Jul 2009 11:29:14 UTC
Topic 194449
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I found myself at a Blue Screen of Death with some kind of cryptic message about IRQ's being less than or equal to something... not sure what it all meant, and it didn't allow me to do anything other than restart the system after executing a memory core dump.
Having never received a BSOD on this system before installing the Einstein@Home screen saver, this is likely the culprit.
I'm on a Compaq CQ60 laptop (AMD 64) on Windows Vista, and I use a Cricket Broadband wireless USB device for internet connectivity. I have a broad range of software installed, both commercial and free packages, which I use for research and computer maintenance. However, none of these were active at the time, excepting the Cricket Broadband software which allows control of the USB device.
I use Avast antivirus, which was running in the system tray. I also have Spyware Doctor, which was also running in the tray.
Please contact me if there are any further pieces of information you need.
Thanks.
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Einstein stresses your hardware a lot, which if it has silent problems, then these will be found easily.
The IRQ Not Less Or Equal error points out that you have trouble with something on your system, be it the memory, problems with the CPU or GPU itself, problems with the hard drive, a driver that's gone corrupt, or your page file being inadequate.
It must've said in what program or library file it had the IRQ_not_less_or_equal error. Do you know what it said?
You also said it wrote a memory dump, so you could check with Windbg, the Windows debug program what is causing the problem.
Now, you could say that Einstein caused it, but it didn't. It merely pointed out to you, that you have a slumbering problem on your system. You may ignore it and no longer run Einstein, but what will you blame then when it happens again in the future?