(Bit of a read im afraid)

Right could do with some thoughts (helpful ones frog!)

Right the other day after playing CSS i suht down the PC as normal and then came back to it later and every time it started I would get BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) even on reverting to an earlier version.

So seeing as i had just installed 2x raid 0 drives 2x160gb WD caviar and 2x250gb WD Caviar drives. I thought it must be the install of vista corrupted because of the lack of error checking on the raid 0 so i thought I would format and reinstall. Now when installing and rebooting for the first time i get BSOD with the message.

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

So after trying it twice I thought it must be that Raid which was faulty and so I retried swapping the drives and installing on the other raid.

but again on the reboot i get
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

So i tried un-Raiding the drives and installing and still get

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

so I think it must be a hardware error. Now I ran the MS memtest which come on the Vista disk and no errors. and also ran memtest86?? (cant remeber name) and also came up clear.

I am going to try and swap out the ram when I get home with my old PC.

I was woundering if anyone has had this problem or can think of a solution??

I am hoping its not the CPU as I would be well cross!!

(I believe all the cooling is working I have 2x120mm fans front and back and Artic cooler 64 on cpu which usually keeps the cpu below 40oC)

(The system was running fine for a week with the raid setup! befoe any problems started)


My system

AMD 4600+ X2 64bit 939
DFI Lanparty CFX3200 (latest bios)
2gb Ocz premier ram 4x512mb
2xWD caviar 16mb 250gb HDD
2xWD Caviar SE 8mb 160gb HDD
1x 200gb samsung SP2004 Spinpoint HDD
Sapphire X1950xtx 512mb Graphics card
X-fi Fata1ity pro.
Hiper 580w Type-R PSU

Trying to install Vista Home Premium 64bit edition.


Wel done for reading it all