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    BSOD Help

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Tachycardia, Dec 10, 2010.

  1. Tachycardia

    Tachycardia Notebook Guru

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    Got this BSOD 5 times now, have yet to call Dell as it will kill 3 hours of my life.
    Anyone here have any experience with this one?

    It starts with the "irql_not_less_or_equal"

    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
    OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
    Locale ID: 1033

    Additional information about the problem:
    BCCode: a
    BCP1: 0000000000002C38
    BCP2: 0000000000000002
    BCP3: 0000000000000001
    BCP4: FFFFF80002A84365
    OS Version: 6_1_7600
    Service Pack: 0_0
    Product: 768_1
     
    Tachycardia, Dec 10, 2010
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  2. Tachycardia

    Tachycardia Notebook Guru

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    Any info would be great, thanks
     
    Tachycardia, Dec 10, 2010
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  3. alex.galie

    alex.galie Notebook Enthusiast

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    Some kind of driver conflict (video most likely), if you already have latest ones, uninstall, do a driver cleanup in safe mode and re-install.
     
    alex.galie, Dec 10, 2010
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  4. AtolSammeek

    AtolSammeek Tokay Gecko

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    I had this Issue. It ended up being the Sound Drivers.
     
    AtolSammeek, Dec 10, 2010
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  5. Tachycardia

    Tachycardia Notebook Guru

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    ill try both, thanks guys
     
    Tachycardia, Dec 10, 2010
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  6. ShimmerArc

    ShimmerArc Notebook Consultant

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    Try disabling one of the sound drivers in device manager if you see two or more enabled. I used to have both ATI and IDT codecs enabled, got BSODs a few times, then I disabled the ATI driver, no BSOD ever since.

    Could be a coincidence, but there's no harm trying. :)
     
    ShimmerArc, Dec 10, 2010
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