Hello everyone sometimes only SOMETIMES when i boot my computer a blue screen appears saying something about my printer and other times memory, it says something like Less_Or Equal_ etc. This started happening after i formatted and then installed Windows XP! Do any of you people know what the problem could be? Thanks

IRQL errors are generally bad hardware, but without specific details diagnosis is based on my psychic ability which is nil. J. j e r u v y a t y a h o o d o t c o m

Well yeah thats the error this is what comes up: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000001 and there was another time where instead of DRIVER it said MEMORY. So what could it be the memory stick not properly installed or some Driver? Thanks

General Protection Fault ("Blue Screen of Death") Q. What is a General Protection Fault (the infamous "Blue Screen of Death") and how does one troubleshoot it? A. A Windows General Protection Fault (GPF) produces the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD), which is full screen with an error message, and locks-up a computer. Microsoft defines it as: "General Protection Fault (Interrupt 13) All protection violations that do not cause another exception cause a general protection exception. This includes, but is not limited to: Exceeding the segment limit when using the CS, DS, ES, FS, or GS segments. This is a very common problem in programs; it is usually caused by miscalculating how much memory is required in an allocation. Transferring execution to a segment that is not executable (for example, jumping to a location that contains garbage). Writing to a read-only or a code segment. Loading a bad value into a segment register. Using a null pointer. A value of 0 is defined as a null pointer. In Protected mode, it is always invalid to use a segment register that contains 0." When I see one of these errors and I do not know the cause, and the error message includes the name of the task/module producing the interrupt, I usually search Microsoft's Knowledge Base ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;KBHOWTO ) with the version of Windows and the error message. If that does not produce an answer, I search Google ( http://www.google.com/ ) with the error message. If that doesn't do it, I search again with just the task/module name. Finally, one can resort to Microsoft's troubleshooting, tips, etc. ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/support/windows/topics/errormsg/kbgpf.asp ) for these kinds of problems. One thing that can cause "jumping to a location that contains garbage" is bad memory or other hardware problems such as a noisy power supply. Whereas, Microsoft emphasizes software problems as the cause of BSOD's, I have seen a lot computers where the real cause was defective hardware or faulty/dated hardware device drivers.

According to Microsoft this error was patched in SP1. Haven't you patched to SP1? This is the link to the stop message... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317326 J. j e r u v y a t y a h o o d o t c o m

Yes i did install Windows Xp SP1!