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    R3- Help me with my BSOD's...

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Nordini, Sep 17, 2011.

  1. Nordini

    Nordini Notebook Enthusiast

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    So it started a couple weeks ago where my laptop would get this same BSOD whenever i closed the laptop while it was still on and tried to reopen it later. It would read

    Driver_irql_not_less_or_equal

    Now finally i can't start it at all unless it's in safe mode or i will get this BSOD. It says the root cause is a bad driver or recent driver upgrade or installation. What do i do?

    The BSOD that says Driver_irql_not_less_or_equal says the crash caused by driver: igdkmd64.sys
    at address: igdkmd64.sys+371280

    And the other BSOD that simply reads IRQL_not_less_or_equal says it was caused by driver: ntoskrnl.exe
    at address: ntoskrnl.exe+705c0
     
    Nordini, Sep 17, 2011
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  2. DarthPierce

    DarthPierce Notebook Consultant

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    igdkmd64.sys is your intel integrated graphics driver. did you update those sometime near the beginning of your problems? have you tried reinstalling them?
     
    DarthPierce, Sep 17, 2011
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  3. zoolian982

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    system specs please.
     
    zoolian982, Sep 18, 2011
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