Blue Screen(IRQL not less than or equal too)

This is the message I get when I've been starting up lately. This will happen and I will wipe my hardrive the computer will work fine for 5-6 weeks and then same thing. When this happens it does not boot all the way too windows. I get to the windows screen and then it goes to the blue screen.
Something similiar happened about 2 years ago(blue screen I don't remember what the message was) but I had the motherboard, hardrive and ram replaced.
About 3 or 4 months ago I dropped the computer. I replaced the hardrive and everything seemed fine for a few months and then this started happening. I've also replaced the hard drive twice.

The exact message is below.

IRQL is not less than or equal too
(0x00000004,0x00000004,0x00000002,0x00000000, 0x8083E33)

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

 

What GPU do you have?

Re-seat the ram, usually helps.
Run intelburntest to see if the system is stable.

 

Thanks for the reply, unfortunetely windows is rebooting so I cannot check what the GPU(I'm at the libary) is I will if I can get it too run. It is a Compaq v6000t which I bought in 2007, directly from HP.

 

Have you tried memtest ?

 

It does sound like a ram problem.

It could also be the GPU, because I think you might have either the 8400m or 8600m, both have known faults.

 

I am pretty sure that it is not the ram. I have replaced it and reseated it several times. I also checked teh slots and ran with only one stick.

When I check display adapters(I believe this is it, sorry I'm a noob), it says "Mobil Intel(R) 945GM Express Chipset family". You said this might cause the issues, any suggestions to how to fix this?

 

I will try but I believe the ram is fine.

 

I had this problem a while ago installing a Linksys PCI card into my HP desktop. It turned out it was a software issue, the driver was so old that it referenced a stack that didn't exist, so it would BSOD with the IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL error everytime Windows would try to connect the card to a network.

The best way to find out what is going on is to boot into safe mode and take a look at the Event Viewer. The Event Viewer should give you specifics of what device or what software is causing the error.

 

Actually the intel graphics you have never go wrong, only the nvidia ones do (which you don't have so it's not your GPU).

I agree that this might be just a software issue. I would backup, then clean install.

 

I did a clean install and got another blue screen. One thing I've noticed is that the blue screen comes alyways when I'm on the internet. Though this hard to tell because thats pretty much all I use the computer for. I think someone said maybe the network card. This is the stop code that I found from the file. I've already tried mem test.

0x10000050(0xf0a03d7c,0000000,0x8050518b,0x00000000)

 

Try to Update the driver for the wireless card @ laptopvideo2go.com

 

Reboot into safe mode, go to c:\windows\minidump and you will find several files with the extension .dmp on them. You can either install the Windows debugger tools on your system to view it or else post the last few dmp files here and I will take a look at them. Looking at several of them will help us tell if it is a memory problem or a specific driver.

 

You could also try using the driver verifier command built-in to Windows to figure out what's causing the problem. Odds are, if the driver is giving you constant BSOD's then it's probably not a verified driver.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244617/en-us