Alienware MX14R1 BSOD IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Let me give a bit of background information. I really like this pc, it has 2 GB of graphics memory, it came with 4 GB of DDR3 memory, but I upgraded it to 16 GB of RAM. It has a Intel i7 processor. It has a HM67 cougarpoint chipset. Anyway, I had Windows 7 Home Premium installed on this pc, I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate and then to Windows 8.1 (big mistake). When I had first got the pc, I wiped the recovery partition off of the HDD, which wasn't to smart, and did a clean stall of Windows. I 're-downloaded alienware respawn and it restored the recovery partition by making a image of my current HDD config, and I was wondering if I took it back to factory would it restore my pc back to the out of box factory state or just my current HDD config, well I found out it was just my current HDD config. Well, after doing a respawn, I used my pc fine for a while. I upgraded it to Windows 7 Ultimate and then Windows 8. I was having driver issues with Windows 8.1 so I decided to wiped the HDD again and do a full reinstall of Home Premium on my PC. I did, and when I do a clean install the first thing I've always done is to install all the drivers, programs and settings I usually use, and then do all the Windows updates. This time, when I did the fresh install, I am getting BSOD of IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I downloaded blue screen view, and it's saying that it was caused by drivee ntoskrnl.exe. That's a kernel file. What am I supposed to do ? Please help me.

 

You will get a better response by requesting this thread to be moved to the Alienware forums.

But, back to the question at hand: Try doing the clean install again. The ntoskrnl.exe file could have become corrupt when it was copied over from the Windows installation media. One thing I always recommend (and this goes for you too if you have the resources available), take your Alienware Windows CD/DVD...assuming that's what you're using to do this install...and create a bootable Windows USB installation drive with it. It requires a USB flash drive and another functional Windows system. You just download the tool from microsoft's website and run it. That way all your install data is written to a USB drive and that is less likely to have issues when you install from it.

 

How many times have you gotten the BSOD and how long has it been since this clean install? Have you run memtest86+ or the built-in windows memory test utility?

 

I did a reinstall of Windows again using a different Windows disk, and it fixed the issue. It was weird, it wasn't until installed updates after the install that I had the BSOD. I have no clue exactly as to why it happened. So far though, there has been no BSOD issues.