Of course, before coming here I've tried several google searches, but my zen is weak, and I am unable to find a solution, probably using the wrong keywords.
Anyways, here's the down low. I switched motherboards on my computer, to and older one I used, and I downgraded my video card because the massive ass fan on the 8800 would practically completely cover up the northbridge fan. I did this to find out whether or not my Motherboard was damaged and causing a different issue. You can find out about this if you look up the only other topic I've made.
Anyways, everything's in, everything's fine, for now. I install the motherboard drivers, everything's fine after the reboot. Whip out my old video card's driver CD, install, everything seems to be fine, however, on reboot, while booting up Windows, suddenly, a BSOD!! Yes! Exactly what I wanted for Christmas! Except it's July. And I didn't want a BSOD.
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is what the message says. Now, this is when I panic and do something stupid. I pulled out my windows installation CD and attempt a reformat/reinstall. I get a BSOD in the middle of the reformat/reinstall. Now, I cannot even start the Windows boot-up because I'm missing I'm assuming most,if not all, necessary files.
When I reflect back now, those 4 hours ago, I probably should've tried harder to get past the BSOD, get into windows somehow and uninstall those drivers, but nay, too late.
I've tried running a CHKDSK /r, but I, again, got a BSOD, with the same error. Once I got an error about trying to write to Read Only Memory, but the details are a bit sketchy. It's really late, and I feel helpless.
Am I wrong in thinking my only option right now is to get a new hard drive?
Or is there a different angle of attack I'm missing?
Oh yeah, and I'm pretty sure it's not RAM problems, I've tried running with only one stick, with four different sticks and it still persists, and then I wasted all that time running memtest too, and that came up clear. I only waited for 7 passes each time though.
HALP!!
*EDIT* Also, when I disabled the External Cache option in BIOS, I didn't BSOD until AFTER the formatting was completely done, then during the installation process I'd finally explode. It happened to be on NTFS.sys at the time. That was when the message about trying to write to Read Only Memory that I mentioned earlier, made it's first appearance. I haven't seen it again because afterwards I decided to try chkdsk /f and /r. BSOD. BSOD.
Anyways, here's the down low. I switched motherboards on my computer, to and older one I used, and I downgraded my video card because the massive ass fan on the 8800 would practically completely cover up the northbridge fan. I did this to find out whether or not my Motherboard was damaged and causing a different issue. You can find out about this if you look up the only other topic I've made.
Anyways, everything's in, everything's fine, for now. I install the motherboard drivers, everything's fine after the reboot. Whip out my old video card's driver CD, install, everything seems to be fine, however, on reboot, while booting up Windows, suddenly, a BSOD!! Yes! Exactly what I wanted for Christmas! Except it's July. And I didn't want a BSOD.
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is what the message says. Now, this is when I panic and do something stupid. I pulled out my windows installation CD and attempt a reformat/reinstall. I get a BSOD in the middle of the reformat/reinstall. Now, I cannot even start the Windows boot-up because I'm missing I'm assuming most,if not all, necessary files.
When I reflect back now, those 4 hours ago, I probably should've tried harder to get past the BSOD, get into windows somehow and uninstall those drivers, but nay, too late.
I've tried running a CHKDSK /r, but I, again, got a BSOD, with the same error. Once I got an error about trying to write to Read Only Memory, but the details are a bit sketchy. It's really late, and I feel helpless.
Am I wrong in thinking my only option right now is to get a new hard drive?
Or is there a different angle of attack I'm missing?
Oh yeah, and I'm pretty sure it's not RAM problems, I've tried running with only one stick, with four different sticks and it still persists, and then I wasted all that time running memtest too, and that came up clear. I only waited for 7 passes each time though.
HALP!!
*EDIT* Also, when I disabled the External Cache option in BIOS, I didn't BSOD until AFTER the formatting was completely done, then during the installation process I'd finally explode. It happened to be on NTFS.sys at the time. That was when the message about trying to write to Read Only Memory that I mentioned earlier, made it's first appearance. I haven't seen it again because afterwards I decided to try chkdsk /f and /r. BSOD. BSOD.
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