Bsod - Irql Not Less Or Equal

[WyoDolPhan]

I have a Nvidia FX5500 video card on an Intel D845GEBV2 motherboard with 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 Processo. I have 1GB DDR-SDRAM. I continually get BSOD STOP error. The latest mini-dumps are attache. The STOP errors are as follows
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
STOP: 0X0000000A (0X00000166, 0X00000002, 0X00000000, 0X804E5433)

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

Your minidumps crash at rxp.sys. I can find no reliable info for this driver file. Do you recognise it?

They have a bugcheck of 7F.

0x0000007F: UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP

One of three types of problems occurred in kernel-mode: (1) Hardware failures. (2) Software problems. (3) A bound trap (i.e., a condition that the kernel is not allowed to have or intercept). Hardware failures are the most common cause (many dozen KB articles exist for this error referencing specific hardware failures) and, of these, memory hardware failures are the most common.

Regards Howard :wave: :wave:

 

[WyoDolPhan]

I think rxp.sys was installed by a program called StarSkin, which isa a program to change the visual appearance, custom styles, and themes. I deleted rxp.sys and re-installed StarSkin, so far no BSOD.
Thanks

 

[howard_hopkinso]

That`s good news.

Thanks for your feedback.

Regards Howard

 

[GraceHopper]

Irql_not_less_or_equal

I am having the same problem with BSOD IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL STOP:
0x0000000A (0x00000116, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804E5433) I have a Planar for Dell Dimension 8250 Mobo, nVidia 7600 GS 8xAGP video card, Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Music Sound Card, 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 Processor, and 256 Mb of PC 1066 RDRAM for 533 mhz FSB, which I plan to upgrade.

I get this BSOD often while the computer is booting up, with the Windows XP Black loading screen running. This has lead me to believe that this may be hardware or driver related. However, I checked the Device Manager and all the drivers are listed as signed and in good order. I do not have the rxp.sys file or the StarSkin app. Any opinions on what may be happening in my case?

 

[Tmagic650]

"I checked the Device Manager and all the drivers are listed as signed and in good order."

This means absolutely nothing when it comes to BSOD problems. You may have failing memory or you may need to update the motherboards bios, or your Nvidia video drivers. Have you installed all the Windows Updates?

 

[GraceHopper]

The video card is freshly installed, however I wll check to see if new drivers are available. I believe I have all the Windows Updates, but will check to see if there is a BIOS update at Dell. I'll let you know how all of this works out.

Thanks

I've done everything TMagic suggested in regards to Windows Updates, BIOS and Drivers. I also ran a series of memory diagnostics using the CheckIt Diagnostic Utility that came with Norton System Works 2006. The memory passed the tests and CheckIt reported "No Error Found" I am still getting this BSOD on an intermittent basis.

Are there any other utilities or diagnostics that I could use to find out what's wrong? Any additional help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[tifc8lraz]

The video card is freshly installed, however I wll check to see if new drivers are available. I believe I have all the Windows Updates, but will check to see if there is a BIOS update at Dell. I'll let you know how all of this works out.

Thanks

Follow the Video Card Question Guide I have in my signature and follow step 3 to rule out any Power Supply Problems.

 

[Tmagic650]

The video card is freshly installed, however I wll check to see if new drivers are available. I believe I have all the Windows Updates, but will check to see if there is a BIOS update at Dell. I'll let you know how all of this works out.

Thanks

Were you experiencing BSODs before you installed the video card?

 

[GraceHopper]

Reply to TMagic650 BSOD IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Yes, I was getting the BSOD before I installed the video card. The BSOD started cropping up five weeks after I had a new Hard Drive installed (Seagate Barracuda 400 GB Ultra ATA). If the issue were the hard drive or its drivers, would the BSOD have come up immediately after the installation? I'm not sure how related the two are.

Thanks

 

[Tmagic650]

I really think this problem is related to your RDRAM memory sticks. RDRAM needs to be installed in sets. If you have 256MB total, you will have two 128MB sticks of RDRAM installed

 

[cpc2004]

More information about the bugcheck 7F stack overflow at rxp.sys

BugCheck 1000007F, {8, 80042000, 0, 0}
Probably caused by : rxp.sys ( rxp+242b )

Followup: MachineOwner
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kd> !analyze -v
*******************************************************************************
* *
* Bugcheck Analysis *
* *
*******************************************************************************

UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP_M (1000007f)
This means a trap occurred in kernel mode, and it's a trap of a kind
that the kernel isn't allowed to have/catch (bound trap) or that
is always instant death (double fault). The first number in the
bugcheck params is the number of the trap (8 = double fault, etc)
Consult an Intel x86 family manual to learn more about what these
traps are. Here is a *portion* of those codes:
If kv shows a taskGate
use .tss on the part before the colon, then kv.
Else if kv shows a trapframe
use .trap on that value
Else
.trap on the appropriate frame will show where the trap was taken
(on x86, this will be the ebp that goes with the procedure KiTrap)
Endif
kb will then show the corrected stack.
Arguments:
Arg1: 00000008, EXCEPTION_DOUBLE_FAULT
Arg2: 80042000
Arg3: 00000000
Arg4: 00000000

Debugging Details:
------------------
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x7f_8
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME: System
LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 00000000 to f315542b

STACK_TEXT:
f2b98d84 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 rxp+0x242b

STACK_COMMAND: kb

FOLLOWUP_IP:
rxp+242b
f315542b 53 push ebx

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 0
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
MODULE_NAME: rxp
IMAGE_NAME: rxp.sys
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 4098f097
SYMBOL_NAME: rxp+242b
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x7f_8_rxp+242b
BUCKET_ID: 0x7f_8_rxp+242b

Followup: MachineOwner
---------

kd> r
eax=f3157a30 ebx=00000000 ecx=85263fb8 edx=847a7d98 esi=851f98c0 edi=847ae1d8
eip=f315542b esp=f2b98d04 ebp=f2b98d84 iopl=0 nv up ei ng nz ac po nc
cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010292
rxp+0x242b:
f315542b 53 push ebx
kd> !thread
GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from 8055ee34
THREAD 850d9b30 Cid 05c4.05d8 Teb: 7ffdc000 Win32Thread: e1425790 RUNNING on processor 0
IRP List:
Unable to read nt!_IRP @ 847c3808
Not impersonating
GetUlongFromAddress: unable to read from 8055ee44
Owning Process 867c6490 Image: System
ffdf0000: Unable to get shared data
Wait Start TickCount 1393116
Context Switch Count 23274 LargeStack
ReadMemory error: Cannot get nt!KeMaximumIncrement value.
UserTime 00:00:00.0000
KernelTime 00:00:00.0000
Win32 Start Address 0x7c910760
Start Address 0x7c810856
Stack Init f2b9c000 Current f2b9a0c8 Base f2b9c000 Limit f2b99000 Call 0
Priority 8 BasePriority 8 PriorityDecrement 0 DecrementCount 16
ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child
f2b98d84 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 rxp+0x242b

 

[Tmagic650]

This is a StarSkin visulation program error