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Blue Screen on Cold Boot
PC: Dell Dimension 5000, P4, 512RAM, 80GB HDD.
Windows XP Home SP2
Whenever I cold boot my PC, after the Windows XP I get a blue screen. At first it was IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, so I checked MSCONFIG and disabled some startup services. Now it doesn't have that message but still blue screens with a stop error.
Like I say this is only on a cold boot and is becoming very annoying, it is a fairly new PC with a brand new install.
Can anyone help?
Windows XP Home SP2
Whenever I cold boot my PC, after the Windows XP I get a blue screen. At first it was IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, so I checked MSCONFIG and disabled some startup services. Now it doesn't have that message but still blue screens with a stop error.
Like I say this is only on a cold boot and is becoming very annoying, it is a fairly new PC with a brand new install.
Can anyone help?
- I unplugged the modem and reseated my memory. I think this sorted the boot error, but then i got a 0x8e stop error out of no where.
I downloaded the latest BIOS and flashed it, then had a mouse driver issue and sorted that. Hopefully everything is ok now.
I am not betting on it though, had nothing but problems so far and this is my first dell pc. - So it didn't work as predicted.
I thought as it only happens on a cold boot after the pc has been switched off for a while it might be the PSU. I changed it for a new one with a higher wattage of 400W and guess what, got a blue screen as soon as i turned it on showing IRQL_not_less_or_equal.
Does anyone have the answer to this?
Errol Eid
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Posted June 27th, 2006 20:00