TSGL: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL stop error

[The Computer Whisperer]

it means something in the system is already using that IRQ for something else.

i think... lol

eventvwr.msc.... if you use it, each error (listing marked with a red
x) if you double click it has a link to a microsoft website that trys
to shed some light on what the error code means.

It's probably your best bet for trying to solve this one.

Justin


On 25/09/06, Don Penlington <deepend at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> Justin wrote:
>
> ><<is there nothing listed in your EVENTVWR.MSC ???? (start menu, run)
> >
> >try running "sfc /scannow" to make sure all of his windows files are intact
> >
> >try booting from a windows install disc and go to the recovery console and
> >type:
> >
> >chkdsk /p
> >
> >
> >Could be a virus??? or spyware???>>
>
>
> Thanks Justin---all good ideas which I'll try at the next opportunity.
>
> Though whenever I've run Event Viewer on my own computer, it's been about
> as meaningful to me as a Korean Koran in Jerusalem.
>
> I'll also check the Interrupts addresses in Device Manager for conflicts,
> though there again I can't see it being relevant to Safe Mode uniquely. Nor
> do I really know what I'm supposed to be looking for, never before having
> experienced an IRQ conflict that I'm aware of.
>
> I'd really like to get to the bottom of this, as I have the feeling that
> out of the blue, he's going to get the same error and refusal to boot into
> normal Windows. Then he's really going to be up the creek without a paddle.
>
> What exactly does "IRQL not less or equal" mean? All I know is that it has
> to do with hardware accessing certain memory addresses, each of which I
> gather has to be unique to each piece of hardware. Equal I assume mean 2
> hardware devices trying to get into the same memory location. But why "Not
> less"?
>
> And could it conceivably happen in Safe but not Normal Mode?
>
> Or am I on the wrong track here?
>
> The only thing that springs to my mind is a possible corruption in the MBR.
> Does the MBR control how the computer boots into Safe Mode and Normal Mode
> separately?  What exactly is the chain of events when the boot sequence
> sees the instruction to boot into Safe Mode? That's where it seems to be
> going wrong.
>
> Can I do a step-by-step boot into Safe Mode--and would that be likely to
> reveal anything useful? Or a Boot log? The normal Boot Menu does not seem
> to allow one to choose Bootlog + Safe Mode. Nor does the XP Boot Menu seem
> to provide any step-by-step boot process.
>
> Don Penlington
>
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