OK, I know head-fi is not the ideal place to post this, but there are a lot of technologically inclined people here. I will probably post a more detailed question on [H]ard if I can't figure this out.
An hour ago, out of the blue (pun intended), I got a BSOD on my year-old Asus 1000H netbook (running preinstalled XP home). Obviously had a slew of things running in the background, as well as Opera, Firefox, uTor, Foobar, etc. Nothing at all out of the ordinary. The bsod now comes up on every boot, including safe mode.
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
stop code is 0x0000000A
I'm aware that this is likely to be an IRQ driver conflict, but I haven't modified the hardware on this thing in at least a month. No new software this week, either, except for a Pidgin update. Most likely it is a simple corruption in a driver file, but since that's a grim outcome I've been trying other things. Windows repair cosole is a future step, but not having an internal and/or external optical drive is a severe handicap. Might have to go pick one up.
Things I've tried so far:
1. Tested RAM (with a spare stick): Memory checks out
2. Disabled all unnecessary devices in bios (usb devices, audio, wan, lan)
3. Backed up my primary partition to a desktop drive
4. Made sure my netbook can still run Ubuntu straight off of a flash card. Works perfectly.
5. Ran Seatools S.M.A.R.T scan and short read/write tests on the hard drive
6. Ran windows disk check utility. Drive seems to check out.
Any input appreciated as I'm just picking my own brain for possible solutions and/or steps to a solution at this point.
An hour ago, out of the blue (pun intended), I got a BSOD on my year-old Asus 1000H netbook (running preinstalled XP home). Obviously had a slew of things running in the background, as well as Opera, Firefox, uTor, Foobar, etc. Nothing at all out of the ordinary. The bsod now comes up on every boot, including safe mode.
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
stop code is 0x0000000A
I'm aware that this is likely to be an IRQ driver conflict, but I haven't modified the hardware on this thing in at least a month. No new software this week, either, except for a Pidgin update. Most likely it is a simple corruption in a driver file, but since that's a grim outcome I've been trying other things. Windows repair cosole is a future step, but not having an internal and/or external optical drive is a severe handicap. Might have to go pick one up.
Things I've tried so far:
1. Tested RAM (with a spare stick): Memory checks out
2. Disabled all unnecessary devices in bios (usb devices, audio, wan, lan)
3. Backed up my primary partition to a desktop drive
4. Made sure my netbook can still run Ubuntu straight off of a flash card. Works perfectly.
5. Ran Seatools S.M.A.R.T scan and short read/write tests on the hard drive
6. Ran windows disk check utility. Drive seems to check out.
Any input appreciated as I'm just picking my own brain for possible solutions and/or steps to a solution at this point.
