Well I have been a long time reader of this forum and finally decided to register. I have had this BSOD problem for a LONG time. It even carried over to a new system. I do not know if it is bad drivers, faulty hardware, or something I am doing but I am extremely frustrated because of it. Anyways....

I typically get the BSOD when trying to start viewing a movie or loading an explorer window containing thumbnails. It is a IRQ Less or Not Equal BSOD. It has yet to happen when playing games.

Here are my specs followed by a .dmp file:

No overclocking.
All of the latest drivers are installed. No beta drivers.
Temperatures are low and or normal.

CPU: Athlon X2 4400+
Motherboard: ASUS AN32 SLI Deluxe
Ram: 2GB Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR RAM (4x 512MB)
GPU: XFX GeForce 7950GT 512MB
PSU: Thermaltake 700W
OS: Windows XP Professional SP2
Sound Card: X-FI Fatality

Here is the .dmp file from the latest crash already converted into a log file. If that is not what you need please let me know and I will change it.

Also, I am willing to give feedback to and keep updated the people that help me so they know exactly what the issue was.

Are you running the Outpost firewall by any chance?

Regards Howard

I sure am but unfortunately I recently installed it and the problem has been around a lot longer. Is it causing problems though?

According to your minidump your problem is caused by RAISED_IRQL_FAULT_svchost.exe_INVALID_CONTEXT

This is a known issue with the Outpost firewall. I suggest uninstalling Outpost and using a different firewall programme.

If you then continue to have system crashes, go and read this thread HERE and see if it helps.

Regards Howard

Thanks for the quick replies! I will see if disabling Outpost changes anything. Is there a problem with Norton Firewall as well? It was doing the same thing when I was using that firewall. Also, I should have mentioned, I have done hardware diagnostics using a couple of programs including PCCheck, Memtest, WDTools, DFT HD diagnostics, etc. and stress tested using Prime95. Everything checked out ok. I hope that helps.

If disabling Outpost doesn`t help, uninstall it completely, then see what happens. Obviously, you should disconnect from the net, while you do this. Being connected to the net with your firewall disable/uninstalled is a huge security risk.

Regards Howard

Well, I adjusted some of the settings in Outpost and have not had a BSOD since (about a week and a half). Thanks so much! It seems to be a problem with using Firefox and Outpost. I think it has to due with the Anti Leak portion of Outpost. Even though I had it disabled I manually set it to exclude Firefox and it has worked so far. I was having the BSOD problem when I was using Norton Internet Security so I suspect it was something smiler there too. Again, thanks!