Can start WinXP....

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I always get this error when trying to start up winXP

firstly it loads the startup for an awful amount of time then
afterwards it displays this blue screen error

0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

I checked microsoft’s troubleshooting guide and it says that it’s
possibly caused by a bad device driver or faulty RAM. I dunno if its a
faulty RAM, I have 3 pc133 sdrams installed (2) 128MB and (1) 256 MB
so that totals to a 512 MB memory. I used each one of them seperately
but my PC still didn’t boot and produce the same blue screen error.

Now if its a bad device driver that would be even harder to solve,
where should I start? how would I know which device to check? What’s
werid is tat it just started displaying the error out of nowhere, if
there is really a problem then I should have seen that blue screen
error the moment I installed that device or driver, why only now? My
PC has been functioning alright for the past weeks and I don’t
recall installing any new device/driver.


another thing.....

the troubleshooting guide also mentioned something about mismatched
RAM, what’s that?

thanks

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Computer stops responding with "Stop 0x000000D1 Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817789
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"Chon-Ji" wrote:

> I always get this error when trying to start up winXP
>
> firstly it loads the startup for an awful amount of time then
> afterwards it displays this blue screen error
>
> 0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
>
> I checked microsoft’s troubleshooting guide and it says that it’s
> possibly caused by a bad device driver or faulty RAM. I dunno if its a
> faulty RAM, I have 3 pc133 sdrams installed (2) 128MB and (1) 256 MB
> so that totals to a 512 MB memory. I used each one of them seperately
> but my PC still didn’t boot and produce the same blue screen error.
>
> Now if its a bad device driver that would be even harder to solve,
> where should I start? how would I know which device to check? What’s
> werid is tat it just started displaying the error out of nowhere, if
> there is really a problem then I should have seen that blue screen
> error the moment I installed that device or driver, why only now? My
> PC has been functioning alright for the past weeks and I don’t
> recall installing any new device/driver.
>
>
> another thing.....
>
> the troubleshooting guide also mentioned something about mismatched
> RAM, what’s that?
>
> thanks
>
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