Hello all,

Ok so I built my new computer about a week ago, and I'm having a BSOD problem. It seems to happen randomly, but one thing for sure sets it off is when I'm using uTorrent, or any other bittorrent program. This isn't the only cause, but it's defintely one of them. I know because I can reboot and leave my comp alone and it'll be fine for hours, but if I just run utorrent, it'll BSOD after 10-20mins.

The BSOD problem is "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL." From what I know this is caused by a Driver issue (that's why i'm posting it in the Drivers forum.) However, i've updated EVERY driver to the latest and it's still happening. I've done windows update, latest bios, latest motherboard drivers (located here TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a Tiny URL ), sound card driver, video card driver (running a GTX 260), VIA V-Raid driver, and keyboard+mouse driver. I don't know what else to update. I even downloaded a program called Driver Genius Professional to find anything missing, but still nope.

Also, I downloaded memtest86 to make sure my ram is all good, and it passed with no errors.

I'm so f*cking frustrated by this.

Can anyone help me out? No suggestion is too stupid. Someone told me I need to make sure my "IRQLs" are the same, but I have no idea what that is or how I fix it. I formatted my harddrive before I put it in my new comp, so there isn't any lingering files that could be causing this.



Thanks in advance,
Andrew.

List your computer specs.
Have you checked the settings in the bios.
Ensure you are only using the drivers from the hardware manufacturers.
Look at device manager to see if there are any problems in there.
Have a look in your error logs.

System Information
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Time of this report: 12/21/2008, 01:17:05
Machine name: ANDREW-PC
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080917-1612)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: ECS
System Model: G31T-M
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 4094MB RAM
Page File: 1258MB used, 7181MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode

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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 260
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_05E2&SUBSYS_0ABA19F1&REV_A1
Display Memory: 2673 MB
Dedicated Memory: 881 MB
Shared Memory: 1791 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2um
Driver Version: 7.15.0011.8048 (English)


Bios is correct (ram timings are right)
I checked device manager.. although I'm not sure what I'm looking for besides the yellow "!" that means theirs a problem, but their are none of those.

Here's what vista tells me when i reboot windows.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: a
BCP1: 0000000000000008
BCP2: 0000000000000002
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: FFFFF80001F2C6B7
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1
Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini121708-07.dmp
C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-57189-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\Temp\WEREB19.tmp.version.txt
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Can you boot into safe mode?
Have you run virus software?
Click on Start
Right click on computer and choose manage
Look at reliability and performance
Look at reliability monitor, this will give you an idea of what is going wrong and when.
Also look through the event viewer, this gives you a better detailed version of what is going on and when.

I can boot into safe mode,
No I don't have virus software, but I don't have a virus. I'm a advance computer user, I know what i'm doing/downloading/browsing (plus it BSOD on the first day when i built it.)

I'm been watching the reliability monitor, but it all seems normal. No super spikes, no errors out of nowhwere... just BSOD.

Any other suggestions guys?