Re: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

You'll need to contact product support for the free hotfix.


Never heard of "backwards-compatibility mode"


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Bill" wrote:
| Hi, Dave!
|
| Doesn't the Windows 2000 Power User's group have a backwards-compatibility
| mode? I thought that backwards mode was 16-bit.
|
| Unfortunately, on my nice new Windows 2000 /Office XP laptop install, I am
| occasionally getting the dreaded BSOD Stop 0x0000000A
| DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error (at IRQ 2) with hal.dll. I'm going
| through knowledge base article 314063 (for WinXP) to solve it. I'm going
| through turning off services and removing hardware.
|
| The last crash was with CD-ROM out of the bay and no external mouse. It
| always happens during an internet access, either checking email or doing
an
| FTP transfer.
|
| (once, the error was a Stop 0x000000D1 with ndis.sys).
|
| Searching the web brings up lots of recommendations that repeat each other
| but nobody reports that they fixed this error.
|
| Evidentially, this was supposed to be fixed in SP4, but apparently there
are
| some retrograde issues?. After running all this time on Win2K SP3, I
started
| getting this error only after upgrading Win2K to SP4. The MS Knowledgebase
| says there's a hotfix available but it's not on the website!
|
| AAAAHHH! I've gone from Windows heaven straight down to hell!
|
| Bill.


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