IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal, More Blue Screens of death, seemingly random Options

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See Icrontic link I previously posted.

Louis

Alright sir, I'm looking at the site, and it only shows how to see the set up/ where the results are on the screen. Please forgive my ignorance/stupidity, but I don't see when it tells me when its done/safe to stop.

I hope you don't mind my stupidity for a bit longer sir. Sorry once again >_<

[hamluis]

"This will show the progress of the test. It can take a while. It can take anywhere from 10 minutes on a very fast computer to over an hour on a computer from a couple of years ago. In the basic test, there are seven different tests. The “Pass” line shows you the overall progress of the test. The “Test” line is the progress of the current test. The “Test#” line shows which of the seven tests is currently running.

The following image is the test results area."

I find this to be somewhat incorrect...and I had another link in mind, my error (I've read too many links). My apologies .

http://hcidesign.com/memtest/manual.html

I will add that when I've run Memtest on an "older" system (???), I ran it for almost 2.5 hours for a complete pass. I would suggest running it for at least 90 min (if you have no error interruptions). Once you get errors, then it's time to experiment.

Did you replace the CMOS battery?

Louis

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"This will show the progress of the test. It can take a while. It can take anywhere from 10 minutes on a very fast computer to over an hour on a computer from a couple of years ago. In the basic test, there are seven different tests. The “Pass” line shows you the overall progress of the test. The “Test” line is the progress of the current test. The “Test#” line shows which of the seven tests is currently running.

The following image is the test results area."

I find this to be somewhat incorrect...and I had another link in mind, my error (I've read too many links). My apologies .

http://hcidesign.com/memtest/manual.html

I will add that when I've run Memtest on an "older" system (???), I ran it for almost 2.5 hours for a complete pass. I would suggest running it for at least 90 min (if you have no error interruptions). Once you get errors, then it's time to experiment.

Did you replace the CMOS battery?

Louis

Phew...I thought I was completely missing something, at this rate I'm sure my computer has ran the memtest long enough *12 hours seems to be enough* so I'll restart and shut down my computer (Which is safe I hope).

Anyway no I have not replaced the CMOS Battery just yet, I have to get one first, hopefully my Dell XPS 600 will be able to survive
Thank you for your help so far sir, I'll keep you updated the moment I'm able to get one and replace it.

PS I had over 12000 errors when I stopped, replacing the battery should fix these right? Also I was planning on upgrading my ram in general if possible, would this affect anything as well?
Thanks again.

This post has been edited by Please Help Us: Jul 2 2009, 03:56 PM

[hamluis]

Don't worry about upgrading anything...until we can arrive at something more definitive than what we have now .

Louis

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Don't worry about upgrading anything...until we can arrive at something more definitive than what we have now .

Louis

Yes sir, will follow. Thank you you've been a big help I can't begin to offer how thankful I am.

Also I would like to note something odd, I haven't had a BSOD on the affected comp in a while, while I know the problem hasn't been fixed I'm either getting lucky or something is changing. Still I'll follow your word till we have a better idea of what's going on.

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Going to buy it right now, I'll see what happens and keep you updated.

alright I have it, going to replace now going to clean it out with some canned air, and replace the battery

Another roadblock, and another reason of why I hate computers added to my list.

I bought the CMOS battery, made sure they both matched in bolt, size, etc, etc. I plugged it in, and came up with an alert that the battery voltage was low and the floppy drive was not found. I went into system and set the time, aside from that I didn't know what to do. I exited out and came with a boot failure. THe only difference between the two batterys are time made and the brand name. Know anything sir?

This post has been edited by Please Help Us: Jul 2 2009, 07:08 PM

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Also sir after reading around about a current problem I've been having since I tried to replace the cmos battery, I stumbled upon this.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic188777.html
Do you think my current problem of the diskette not being found, and the Alert! Battery Voltage too low errors might be resolved in the same way as this person's?
Thank you again.

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Alright time for some updates on what I've done so far.

Since the new battery we bought was causing the low voltage errors we put in the old one again for the time, and now we're running a dell diagnostics test using the CDs that came with the computer itself. It seems to boot just fine with the disc, however, just in case we bought two new batteries for the computer, did you know that its cheaper to buy the batteries at walmart then it is Best Buy we got two for the price of one and their the same type. We're going to replace it after the test is over, however, till then we would like to hear what you think sir.

Thank you so far for your support sirt, we hope to hear from you soon.

PS. Sorry for all the posting in a row, I don't mean to be such a problem if that's the case. Sorry everyone >_<

This post has been edited by Please Help Us: Jul 3 2009, 07:42 PM

[hamluis]

You are not a problem...people come here to give and receive...assistance, education .

There's nothing more I can add until I see if the CMOS battery was the problem...maybe others have some suggestions until then.

Louis

[Please Help Us]

You are not a problem...people come here to give and receive...assistance, education .

There's nothing more I can add until I see if the CMOS battery was the problem...maybe others have some suggestions until then.

Louis

Well we tried running it with a new one, and we kept gettint erros on boot up.
So we put the old one and its been running fine as of late....
Of course we're botting from disc so we'll have to see. We're running a scan from one of the install discs right now so we'll see what happens.
So sir, we bought two new ones, and we're going to try those out and see what happens sir.

[hamluis]

What kinds of errors?

A new battery should provoke a possible reminder that the CMOS clock needs to be reset...but I've not heard of such producing any errors of any sort.

FWIW: Error messages...are the method whereby Windows tries to alert users...where to possibly start troubleshooting system problems.

Louis

[Please Help Us]

What kinds of errors?

A new battery should provoke a possible reminder that the CMOS clock needs to be reset...but I've not heard of such producing any errors of any sort.

FWIW: Error messages...are the method whereby Windows tries to alert users...where to possibly start troubleshooting system problems.

Louis

It was Alert! System Battery Voltage Low, and Diskette Floppy Drive not Found or something along the lines of that. I posted more indepth a few up, as an edit to one of my posts.

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So, I was doing a system test provided by Dell when we bought the computer (Located on one of the boot discs ) and we ran through it twice and found that all the tests supposely passed (Except for the ones where I was an idiot trying to click retry on the sound test, and instead hit no). So, everything seems normal according to the computer's disc. Also do you think the battery problem might be because we left the original out for too long, instead of trying to quickly switch them. We put in the old one, and was wondering if it might safe to switch and no side affects happen now? So far nothing out of the ordinary, waiting on your response sir.

Alright slash that, changing the battery doesn't work. Low Voltage Battery Alert keeps showing up, along with the floppy diskette. I'm ready to bring a hammer to this thing right about now. I'm thinking it has to be something stupidly simple at this point, I know I can turn off the diskette seek in the System, but that still leaves the low voltage error. Maybe the part that seeks the voltage or reads the cmos battery is bad. I don't know its worked ever since before we tried to replace it.

This post has been edited by Please Help Us: Jul 5 2009, 03:22 PM

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Alright, alright, calming down from yesterday and talking to some people from Dell and reading some things I'm getting them to email my original settings via Email. After that they told me when I replace the battery again I should unplug it (which I have been doing) and hold the power button for five seconds to disengage it. Hopefully this should fix things, I'll keep you guys updated.

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Also sir I might of mentioned this before, but I just recalled some of the BSODs coming from me trying to open up the McAfee Menu. I've never had troubles with it before, so I took little note of it till I researched it some more and realized this does happen quite frequently. I was wondering if you could tell me if this could be the trouble, and if so, how I could fix it.

Sorry I must be jumping all over the place asking a lot of you, sorry to do that I just really want to get my computer back up and running, and try to avoid problems like this again.