Computer Blue screen of death

• MareneCorp wrote on 2012-03-18 22:02
  So computer crashes, shows a blue screen. The first problem says it's "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" which would be the hard drive, but the second is "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and I have no idea what that is, looking for an alternative to wiping my hard drive please and thanks! Would help if a solution be posted fast, I need to use my computer for homework.
  
  Edit: Also, the blue screen does not appear when running all forms of Safe Mode. Only in normal mode.
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-03-18 22:18
  Memory management is probably RAM, not hard drive. :P I'm guessing there's some kind of driver conflict that's screwing you up. You can upload the crash minidump from c:\windows\minidump if you want someone to take a look at it with a debugger to maybe get a better idea.
  
  Other things you can try, off the top of my head:
  sfc /scannow in command prompt with admin rights; this will check your OS files for corruption and such.
  System restore to a date prior to when the problem started happening. (I don't really like this, since it may screw up programs you installed after the restore point.)
  Repair install Windows without wiping your drive. (Not a fan of this either, repair installs suck.)
• MareneCorp wrote on 2012-03-18 22:28

  Quote from Yoorah;811671:

  Memory management is probably RAM, not hard drive. :P I'm guessing there's some kind of driver conflict that's screwing you up. You can upload the crash minidump from c:\windows\minidump if you want someone to take a look at it with a debugger to maybe get a better idea.
  
  Other things you can try, off the top of my head:
  sfc /scannow in command prompt with admin rights; this will check your OS files for corruption and such.
  System restore to a date prior to when the problem started happening. (I don't really like this, since it may screw up programs you installed after the restore point.)
  Repair install Windows without wiping your drive. (Not a fan of this either, repair installs suck.)

  
  
  Trying that command prompt solution now and the others later, thanks! Will see if this works.
  
  Edit: Nope, nothing's corrupted. Beginning to save all the useful stuff onto flashdrives for a system restore/repair/wipe.
  
  Edit2: Fixed! System restore did it.
• ggicollegepunjab wrote on 2012-03-19 09:03
  Computer Blue Screen problem while running program is related to primary memory called RAM (Random Access Memory). On the other hand Hard Disk is a secondary memory. There is no any problem in hard disk drive. If you are using 2 slots RAM, i suggest you to put it into 1 slot or interchange it.
• elumini wrote on 2012-03-21 03:22
  Sounded like you tried to change some settings or installed something weird. At least your System Restore works well.
• MareneCorp wrote on 2012-03-22 21:07
  Same problem again, actually it's been happening for days but it hasn't turned too bad. Now computer won't even give itself 5 minutes before blue screening. And I tried a system restore but there, surprisingly, are no restore points at all. I have no idea what to do now :<
  
  I know what the problem might be, but I don't know how to remove it. I plugged in my Android P690 the other day and apparently I needed to download some program to get them connected. I never did it. Day after that or something I started bluescreening. I can't uninstall this program thing now though! Programs and Features remove doesn't work on it :c Well, I can't find it in there.
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-03-22 21:35
  Like I said, sounds like a driver conflict. You should be able to find the driver for it in the Device Manager, where you can uninstall or update it with the proper version. You can also try looking for it in the MSconfig utility, where you can stop it from being loaded to test if it will resolve your BSODs.
• MareneCorp wrote on 2012-03-22 22:46
  Nope. Deleted the thing (And a lot of other programs/drivers/whatnot that weren't necessary to run Windows), and I still get the bluescreen. Same message everytime, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Sometimes it doesn't even show that message, just a blank space. Looking around my computer files now.
  
  Edit: Yea I can't figure it out. Don't have the money to pay for a wipe though. And I don't have the time left to do a wipe on my own.
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-03-22 23:21
  Upload the crash minidump for me or someone else to look at, then. It might help pinpoint the troublemaking driver.
• MareneCorp wrote on 2012-03-22 23:32
  No idea how to do that.
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-03-22 23:53
  It should be in C:\Windows\Minidump. Grab the latest one if you have multiple.