[LUNI] OT: evil empire problems [was: Local Ubuntu event...]

[Jeff Jirsa]

Whenever I've seen a system running 2000 or XP that has been running for
a long time, and then gives me a "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" error
one day, it usually means the hardware that goes with the driver has
gone bad.

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From: luni-bounces at luni.org [mailto:luni-bounces at luni.org] On Behalf Of
James Velguth
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 11:40 AM
To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: [LUNI] OT: evil empire problems [was: Local Ubuntu
event...]


I used to get "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" when I was running NT.  NT

ran for a year before giving this response, why I don't know.  I 
replaced my software modem with a hardware modem, removed its drivers 
and never had the problem again. I am pretty shure that this is not your

problem but the thought ofthis might give you an idea of where to look.

Carey Tyler Schug wrote:

> I did not think of that, I will try it, though wouldn't a disk problem

> fail in safe mode too?
>
> From Ubuntu, I did "copy" the whole raw disk to /dev/null, so there 
> aren't any physical disk read problems.
>
> At first in diagnostic mode it claimed a problem with my display 
> driver, but I disabled the driver and it also fails in VGA mode.  
> After disabling the driver it now only reports an invalid 
> interrupt."DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and a stop in vobid.sys
>
> I'm going to try running on linux only for a while, but I have several

> programs I require that I cannot find equivalents for, and no 
> indication they run under wine: Printmaster Gold, Microsoft Streets 
> and Tips, as well as a number of unknowns (like drivers for my 
> printer/scanner and associated OCR software, usb DVD burner, internal 
> CDROM burner, USB and PCI video capture, and also Cisco 
> testing/training software).  I have a number of web pages saved as 
> .mhtml which I think only IE recognizes, and is there an IE for linux?
>
> It MAY be a hardware problem, something that XP does that ubuntu does 
> not, e.g. changing clock speed dynamically.  My system got zapped by 
> lightening 2.5 years ago, killing the power supply, the floppy 
> interface and the 2nd IDE interface.  Two years ago, the hard disk 
> died, and I reinstalled windows.  I *THINK* that beginning sometime 
> after the lightning zap and before the hard disk failure, if I 
> rebooted, especially with a lot of windows opening automatically (e.g.

> many explorer sessions open when I shut down), and logged on 
> immediately or started doing things before the automatic stuff 
> completed, it would crash and reboot.  Not logging on after power up 
> till it quiesced, and waiting after logging on till it went idle 
> avoided this.  Three weeks ago I forgot and started doing things 
> immediately after logging on, and it crashed, and since then it has 
> crashed even if I wait, except in safe mode.  The problem occurred 
> shortly (though I think it was a week) after I installed the latest 
> security fixes.  I had not been running a virus checker, but ran a web

> based one from safe mode, and it only found virii in (unopened) email 
> attachments. I suppose it could still be a virus not detectable from 
> such a virus checker.  I have been using ubuntu these last 3 weeks, 
> and it never crashes there, even in 1280x1024 mode.
>
> I went into BIOS and disabled the 2nd IDE and floppy interfaces in 
> case they are now starting to try to work part of the time, and giving

> interrupts.
>
> I should have my OEM XP install disk somewhere, I used it 2 years ago,

> but I cannot find it now.  I copied down the code, so even if I have 
> to do a clean install, I will be ok, once I find it.
>
> Patrick R. White wrote:
>
>> Try loading up a command prompt and type into the window [chkntfs C: 
>> /C]  ...
>>
>> Pat
>
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