Over the past week I have begun getting Windows blue screens with the "IRQL_not_less_or_equal" error. I have tried to find out about this error online, but beyond the basic, non-specific symptoms, the information gets extremely technical. Can I get some help on this?
Here are the last 2 blue screen sets of data. Both happened within about a day of each other.
Blue screen 1:
STOP: 0x0000000A (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x805226F8)
Blue screen 2:
STOP: 0x00000077 (0xC0000185, 0xC0000185, 0x00000000, 0x0586A000)
After blue screen #2 (last night, and it sat on that screen for about 8 hours as I was asleep), a soft reboot did not post. I then did a hard reset, which also did not post. The 2nd hard reset posted and I'm using my computer as if nothing is wrong, only with the knowledge that I will get more of these screens in the days to come.
An interesting note after the 2nd screen that I recorded is that the in-Windows debugging info listed the same codes as blue screen #1 even though the info was different on the actual blue screen. I imagine all of these are due to the same issue, but I don't know what that issue is.
A couple relevant points:
The first blue screen (not recorded above) happened about a week ago. I did not record this one as it had not occurred before, but I think it mentioned video drivers in there somewhere, because my first instinct when I recovered from the error was to run Windows Update and get a new display driver, which was available. The two errors listed above have happened since that upgrade. None of the hardware nor drivers in my machine have been touched for months leading into this issue, which started before the video driver update anyway. Windows has done some updates on its own at shutdown and that is it.
These screens have happened generally after the system has been on for hours, though that may be random chance. I had iTunes running during 2 of them but not during another, which occurred while I was backing up data in lieue of the issue.
Each time I have ultimately been able to recover into Windows. All but one of the times, Windows has given me the "Windows has recovered from a serious error" message, which then points me to very vague information that isn't entirely helping me here. One of the times, Windows just started as normal with no error reporting of any kind.
My Windows installation is a holdover from a couple years ago, and I have added almost entirely new hardware since that time, including the motherboard. Since Windows continued to operate and my health is horrible, I just continued using it as is.
What should I do? I am considering uninstalling my video driver completely and reinstalling it via Windows Update. Is this the best opening move? Ultimately I could reinstall my OS but, as stated, my health is terrible and I would prefer to do the simplest things first.
Thanks for your time.
Here are the last 2 blue screen sets of data. Both happened within about a day of each other.
Blue screen 1:
STOP: 0x0000000A (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x805226F8)
Blue screen 2:
STOP: 0x00000077 (0xC0000185, 0xC0000185, 0x00000000, 0x0586A000)
After blue screen #2 (last night, and it sat on that screen for about 8 hours as I was asleep), a soft reboot did not post. I then did a hard reset, which also did not post. The 2nd hard reset posted and I'm using my computer as if nothing is wrong, only with the knowledge that I will get more of these screens in the days to come.
An interesting note after the 2nd screen that I recorded is that the in-Windows debugging info listed the same codes as blue screen #1 even though the info was different on the actual blue screen. I imagine all of these are due to the same issue, but I don't know what that issue is.
A couple relevant points:
The first blue screen (not recorded above) happened about a week ago. I did not record this one as it had not occurred before, but I think it mentioned video drivers in there somewhere, because my first instinct when I recovered from the error was to run Windows Update and get a new display driver, which was available. The two errors listed above have happened since that upgrade. None of the hardware nor drivers in my machine have been touched for months leading into this issue, which started before the video driver update anyway. Windows has done some updates on its own at shutdown and that is it.
These screens have happened generally after the system has been on for hours, though that may be random chance. I had iTunes running during 2 of them but not during another, which occurred while I was backing up data in lieue of the issue.
Each time I have ultimately been able to recover into Windows. All but one of the times, Windows has given me the "Windows has recovered from a serious error" message, which then points me to very vague information that isn't entirely helping me here. One of the times, Windows just started as normal with no error reporting of any kind.
My Windows installation is a holdover from a couple years ago, and I have added almost entirely new hardware since that time, including the motherboard. Since Windows continued to operate and my health is horrible, I just continued using it as is.
What should I do? I am considering uninstalling my video driver completely and reinstalling it via Windows Update. Is this the best opening move? Ultimately I could reinstall my OS but, as stated, my health is terrible and I would prefer to do the simplest things first.
Thanks for your time.
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