Reading BSOD CODES

[Tiddle]

Okay im having trouble w a computer.
The Hard Drive Crashed.
I bought a new one and installed it, loaded XP on it.
so I turn it on load drivers. Working fine.
Then a day later i get BSOD.
I figured "hmmm maybe its the ram" I take the ram out..i give all components a thorough cleaning. Re-seat the ram. Turn it on and now it works fine.
Four Days later i get bsod again and again ive disabled automatic start up on system failure and i just get to bsod.
It works fine when im using a live cd and it also works fine in Safe Mode.

This computer is for a local tattoo shop. They do use photoshop all day every day. The Comp never gets turned off.

What could it be?
Should I Reformat again and see how that goes or is it faulty Ram?

The BSOD says "driver irql_not_less_or_equal"

Is there a site that shows all the error codes out the so i wont have to keep asking what each are.

 

[Daifne]

http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

 

[abe]

Okay im having trouble w a computer.
The Hard Drive Crashed.
I bought a new one and installed it, loaded XP on it.
so I turn it on load drivers. Working fine.
Then a day later i get BSOD.
I figured "hmmm maybe its the ram" I take the ram out..i give all components a thorough cleaning. Re-seat the ram. Turn it on and now it works fine.
Four Days later i get bsod again and again ive disabled automatic start up on system failure and i just get to bsod.
It works fine when im using a live cd and it also works fine in Safe Mode.

This computer is for a local tattoo shop. They do use photoshop all day every day. The Comp never gets turned off.

What could it be?
Should I Reformat again and see how that goes or is it faulty Ram?

The BSOD says "driver irql_not_less_or_equal"

Is there a site that shows all the error codes out the so i wont have to keep asking what each are.

yes ther are sites that give a basic list of stop codes, but the best I've found is google, no joking it's givin me the best and quickest answers, and i think bryce did have a page in the Computer Technicians Quick Reference Guide he released two or three months ago.

Abe

 

[14049752]

WhoCrashed really helps a lot with BSOD's. Give it a try, it might point to something specific.

 

[Tiddle]

Thank You For The Info.
So Far Its Looking Like Faulty Ram but please feel free to give me any other input.

 

[eric76]

Do you have a dump file?

 

[abe]

Thank You For The Info.
So Far Its Looking Like Faulty Ram but please feel free to give me any other input.

the driver part wou;d mean its faulty drivers not RAM, whats making you think its RAM?

 

[Tiddle]

Misread..the driver part.
now to find the driver.

 

[LunchBox]

I recently tried WhoCrashed which I came across here in this site. I like it.

I learned how to use windbg to read the stop codes only because I noticed that the each stop code points to multiple items. Looking at the dumpl file only takes me about a minute

 

[Tiddle]

i got it wroking ...it was a driver messing it up.

 

[Tiddle]

I was downgrading from Vista To Xp.
I couldnt find the Nvidia driver, so i loaded one that I THOUGHT would work and that was the one giving me the problem.
I searched and searched for one, HP Support didnt help. So i just loaded Vista back on the computer now its working like a champ.


Thank You so much for the input guys.

The TechNibble Family is Awesome.

 

[Edge Tech NY]

I had that problem before.. Worked fine in safe mode etc. I ended up saving some pics and documents and formating because they needed the PC back up within 2-3 hours, and trying to find the driver that was causing it would have took pretty long im guessing.