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Problem while loading up PC

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Windows XP: OS
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The problem seems to be:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
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That is what shows up after the windows load bar goes away, it takes awhile for it to do so. When the blue screen of death pops up, I see the problem listed above. What must I do?

Thank you for looking and even more for contributing.
 
I have seen this before, it is often caused by a device driver that is attempting to use the kernal core memory addressing that manages interrupt sources IRQ's. In other words the device driver is trying to use restricted memory that is already being used by the Windows operating system.

My best advice is that since it is giving the BSOD screen at load time, it is most likely one of these device drivers

1) Your video driver for your video card.
2) Just plain bad ram or mismatched ram sticks.
3) Another device driver for another hardware device, hd, sata controler...etc.
4) Could even be a faulty pagefile....reseting your pagefile will fix that.
5) A faulty driver for a printer.
6) Have you added any new device or installed any new software before this happen?

If you can get into windows via safe mode...than you could look in your event log and see if it tells you in the complete error message which software or hardware driver is giving you the issue.

Hope this helps you out a little...
 
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