Re: STOP ERROR Woes

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From: Rock (rock_at_mail.nospam.net)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:00:21 -0800

John Kenchington wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> After a year of blood, money, sweat, money and tears to get my self-build pc
> up and running, I am dogged by ANOTHER problem, this time one I cannot fix.
>
> Basically, I am running a 500mhz Celeron w/old intel chipset 192mb old ram
> and lots of pci cards tacked on. Windows XP Professional SP2, the usual
> homepc software. Belkin USB wireless network stick. Part of a 3 PC wireless
> Ad Hoc network on the USB stick with shared broadband.
>
> It seems that when using my Belkin USB wireless network device, and
> sometimes when not really using it, after a while I get a STOP ERROR screen
> as follows:
>
> DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
>
> STOP Ox000000D1 ... OxF58DOF37
>
> PRISMAXP.sys - Address F58DOF37 is the affected file
>
> (Also, some of my taskbar icons have stopped appearing next to the clock,
> they only periodically appear when i log off and back on etc) (Also, my old
> rubbish mainboard only recognises half of my RAM, but I figure this is due to
> an old BIOS, and does not really cause problems - Its only recently that I
> get the stop error, the bad mainboard has never been a problem before)
>
> Anyway, many thanks for any help.
>
> John Kenchington

See this link for info on that error:

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL