I appear to have a memory conflict on my laptop. I'm using WinXP, and it starts up fine in normal mode, but crashes during startup in safe mode, flashing a blue screen at me for a split second with an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL message. So I start up in normal mode and use the system info tool to check the memory assignments (even though they are evidently different when starting in safe mode - otherwise it wouldn't crash?). They don't make sense to me, so I send screenshots to HP customer care (which I was trying to resolve an issue with). There's a number of items in the Conflicts/Shared section, so guess what they tell me: "Reinstall your operating system to resolve all the driver issues". A sure and very easy solution for them. Not for me.
So here's the question. The task appears so simple: A number of drivers ask for memory during startup, and I assume it is assigned to them by Windows. How hard can it be not to assign the same piece of memory to two different drivers??? You'd think it was possible to check before assigning a memory range that it is not already assigned and if it is, push to a different range that isn't. And then even worse, afterwards it can give you a list of places where it failed, but not do anything about it! Is it really that hard to arrange or rearrange the memory assignments? Evidently it is, and I hope somebody here can enlighten me as to why this has to be so difficult.
Of course, I will also appreciate advice about how to sort out my memory conflict without having to reinstall everything as HP customer care suggests.
Thanks in advance!
So here's the question. The task appears so simple: A number of drivers ask for memory during startup, and I assume it is assigned to them by Windows. How hard can it be not to assign the same piece of memory to two different drivers??? You'd think it was possible to check before assigning a memory range that it is not already assigned and if it is, push to a different range that isn't. And then even worse, afterwards it can give you a list of places where it failed, but not do anything about it! Is it really that hard to arrange or rearrange the memory assignments? Evidently it is, and I hope somebody here can enlighten me as to why this has to be so difficult.
Of course, I will also appreciate advice about how to sort out my memory conflict without having to reinstall everything as HP customer care suggests.
Thanks in advance!
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