SONY DVD-RW makes BlueScreen of Death!

Aneesh@4GHz

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Sep 20, 2009
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Hi everyone,


I have a Sony Optiarc DVD RW AD-7220A ATA 22x dvd-rw,i am running my p4 ht 630 3.0GHz with 2gb of ddr2 800ram and asus p5kpl am ps,Now the problem is while reading some dvds with some multitasking,my dvd rw will make a bad reading noise and will take it to a blue screen,Is that the problem of my drive or any other components,I am running vista home premium!

Thanks for u replies!
 

sub mesa

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Search google on the blue screen error message, like: IRQL_LESS_OR_EQUAL; something in capital letters.

Even with a defect drive it shouldn't BSOD; so this could be a driver issue or other software issue. Try other operating systems if you can, and i assume you ran MemTest86+ already?