Re: more blue screen misery

Confused

Try Enable VGA Mode
http://support.microsoft.com:80/kb/315222/en-us

Have you looked in the BIOS? Are there any indication of problems?

What exactly is the BIOS?

What Beeps occur when you try to boot? I have looked for the Beep Codes
for a Presario but had no joy so far. More information regarding the
BIOS may help.

Check that you have removed devices like a flash drive from the USB
ports.

I have wondered about testing the motherboard. Do you have a motherboard
manufacturer and model number, perhaps on the board itself.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Confused wrote:
Thanks for responding to my problem Gerry. I've tried responding to
your help once, but my finger & this laptop I'm using now are touchy
so if you've gotten a partial reply -- please forgive me.

My fans are running. The computer does have a little dust but nothing
outlandish. I'll get some aire today though & try that.

I've already disconnected all hardware peripherals as well as a
"data" slave drive.
I don't really have any data to recover -- because I've kept data
strictly to my slave drive & programs/system needs to my master (C)
drive, so thats a plus -- I just really can't afford a new tower at
the moment....(sob, sob)

I did try Last Known Good Config. It stops at the Windows XP screen.
It had occurred to me that the system might have been running
scandisk because of the way I shut it down, but the message never
came up & I let it set a good couple of hours to be sure that it
wasn't progressing.

Safemode stops after this driver is shown on the screen -- AGP440.sys
-- I had thought that the problem might lie with the driver/process
directly after that driver is listed but I don't know what that would
be or where to get

that info. It stops in the same place regardless or whether I choose
the safemode or safemode with command prompt options.

Thanks for the link to the Hp recovery info ...unfortunately I had
already found the website during my "sleepless"

travels. I ran through the steps given. Thats where I came up with
this stop error that I gave in my original post --

System Recovery CD option R gives the stop 0x0000000a (0x106cfeee8,
0x000000ff, 0x00000001, 0x8040404f85) IRQ_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS again
with the sames otherwise messages that that irq error seems to
always give...

The antivirus program I'm running is Norton Internet Security 2009.
As for spyware, I run the one thats within

norton & occassionally run Adware-SE as well.
I haven't ran the adware in a couple of weeks though.

When it comes to all the various links about the stop error -- I've
travelled to all of those you listed except

ahuma.org -- i'll go there next. My REAL dilemna involves checking &
changing ANYTHING when I can't access the information to check or
change anything. (whatever happenned to the win98 msdos startup
option)

I do have an XP startup disk -- but looking at it -- is a mystery to
me... it only has EGA2.cpi, EGA3.cpi, EGA.cpi,

keyb.com, keyboard.sys, keybrd2.sys, keybrd3.sys,
keybrd4.sys, mode.com, command.com, display.sys, autoexec.bat (which
is blank), config.sys (which is blank). I've had the disk since 2005
when I got my pc. I don't recall how I made it --I'm assuming that I
made it in the same manner as a win98 would have been made. Like I
said its a mystery to me & it doesnt seem to work. Could that be
where the stop of safemode is coming into play?

I havent gone to the troubleshooting site for 0x07e at microsoft yet.
I'll do that next.
I cant help but feel that if I could just get into safemode -- I
could begin the process
of getting my pc back to me.

Thanks for all of your help -- please dont give up on helping me more
if you can
think of anything !!

"Gerry" wrote:

Make sure all your fans are working and the computer is free of dust.
Use an Air Duster to remove dust.

Disconnect all hardware peripherals except keyboard, mouse and
monitor.

Have you tried Last Known Good Configuration?
A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222/en-us

Do you have data files you need to recover? You need to do this
first.

System Recovery Options
http://snipurl.com/9l1mp [h10025_www1_hp_com]

The way the problem makes me wonder whether malware is involved. What
are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements?

Background information on Stop Error message
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms793589.aspx

0x0000000A: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Typically due to a bad driver, or faulty or incompatible hardware or
software. Use the General Troubleshooting of STOP Messages checklist
above. Technically, this error condition means that a kernel-mode
process or driver tried to access a memory location to which it did
not have permission, or at a kernel Interrupt ReQuest Level (IRQL)
that was too high. (A kernel-mode process can access only other
processes that have an IRQL lower than, or equal to, its own.)
Source: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

You receive a "Stop 0x0000000A" error message in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314063/

Background information on Stop Error message:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms795746.aspx

0x0000007E: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
A system thread generated an exception which the error handler did
not catch. There are numerous individual causes for this problem,
including hardware incompatibility, a faulty device driver or system
service, or some software issues. Check Event Viewer (EventVwr.msc)
for additional information.
Source: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

How to Troubleshoot a Stop 0x0000007E Error in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330182/en-us


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Confused wrote:
I have a compaq presario computer thats been old faithful ....until
2 days ago that is. The model number is s4120wm, amd athlon xp
2600+ 2133 MHz/266MHz 256k cache ram & 1g (otherwise) of memory. I
have a 60g hard drive thats over 50% free space. My CPU fan has
been running at 2000 RPM, the System fan's been running at 1100 RPM
(give & take for both) My CPU temp has been a steady 55 - 57
degrees. I don't know but sounds cool to me.
My problem began when I was on the internet... I was reading news
articles from the NYTimes & like always I managed to clicked &
openned ALOT of subsequent links to other articles during the course
of my "read" -- probably 10-15 or so tabs & other explorer windows.
After one of my 'open to new tab" moves, explorer froze. I was
expecting the usual 'explorer has encountered a problem & must shut
down' notices to come up -- but it never did. Not only did it not
come up, but my computer froze. No start button, no ctrl alt delete,
to switching between windows, no nothing. I guessed that i had
balled up the cpu with requests so i let the computer sit there for
3 hours before i decided that it was hopeless & turned off the
machine for a reboot. Then the problem grew & continues. I can't
boot up from any mode. Initially, a normal windows start had a stop
0x0000000a (0x00000002, 0x00000007, 0x00000001, 0x805573eo) blue
screen error, IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL with all of the other notices
I've read in the threads saying to restart if this was the first
time you have seen this error -restart your computer. If it
reoccurs, disable bios memory caching & shadowing &/or check
recently added hardware & software..blah, blah.
I have not added any hardware or software to my system in months.
Starting windows normally now stops at the windows xp screen (before
login). Starting windows in safemode or safemode with command prompt
stops after listing the agp440.sys driver. Last known configuration
stops at the windows xp screen (before login) recover console gave
me a stop 0x0000007e (0xc0000005, 0x516e735f, 0xf7b1e0d4,
0xf7b1ddd4) with the same otherwise messages that the IRQ_NOT_E
QUAL_OR_LESS did. System Recovery CD option R gives the stop
0x0000000a (0x106cfeee8, 0x000000ff, 0x00000001, 0x8040404f85)
IRQ_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS again with the sames otherwise messages that
that irq error seems to always give... HELP. PLEASE. Anybody? There
has to be a way to bring this back! I ran Maxtor Power Max... my
hard drive passed a full 2 hour extended test. I ran a memory check
through the bios extended boot... so i don't think memory is a
problem either... any thoughts from anyone?


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