I am having a hard time getting a new SATA DVD drive to work with my new build. Its the only thing left to making it 100% workable. I am able to use the computer fine on an everyday basis and with an IDE DVD drive. But now that I bought a Samsung SATA DVD drive I get a BSOD when I attach the SATA cable. Below is the dump file.

From what I can tell it is ntkrnlmp.exe that is causing my problem. And that is a NT Kernel file. I dont know how to make the error go away. Or turn off what ever causes ntkrnlmp.exe. Anyone have an idea?

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* Bugcheck Analysis *
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IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (a)
An attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an
interrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high. This is usually
caused by drivers using improper addresses.
If a kernel debugger is available get the stack backtrace.
Arguments:
Arg1: ffffffe0, memory referenced
Arg2: 00000002, IRQL
Arg3: 00000000, bitfield :
bit 0 : value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation
bit 3 : value 0 = not an execute operation, 1 = execute operation (only on chips which support this level of status)
Arg4: 83c589c4, address which referenced memory

Debugging Details:
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READ_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from 83d436d8
Unable to read MiSystemVaType memory at 83d242e0
ffffffe0

CURRENT_IRQL: 2

FAULTING_IP:
nt!ExpScanGeneralLookasideList+22
83c589c4 8b51e0 mov edx,dword ptr [ecx-20h]

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 5

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: COMMON_SYSTEM_FAULT

BUGCHECK_STR: 0xA

PROCESS_NAME: System

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 83c4ccc0 to 83c589c4

STACK_TEXT:
80780cd0 83c4ccc0 83d0f9c8 83d0f9c0 00000000 nt!ExpScanGeneralLookasideList+0x22
80780d7c 83dbf6ad 00000000 e7135dbd 00000000 nt!KeBalanceSetManager+0x110
80780dc0 83ca6686 83c4cbb0 00000000 00000000 nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x9d
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 nt!KiThreadStartup+0x16


STACK_COMMAND: kb

FOLLOWUP_IP:
nt!ExpScanGeneralLookasideList+22
83c589c4 8b51e0 mov edx,dword ptr [ecx-20h]

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 0

SYMBOL_NAME: nt!ExpScanGeneralLookasideList+22

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: nt

IMAGE_NAME: ntkrnlmp.exe

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 47918b0a

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0xA_nt!ExpScanGeneralLookasideList+22

BUCKET_ID: 0xA_nt!ExpScanGeneralLookasideList+22

Followup: MachineOwner
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0: kd> lmvm nt
start end module name
83c17000 83fc1000 nt (pdb symbols) c:\windows\symbols\exe\ntkrnlmp.pdb
Loaded symbol image file: ntkrnlmp.exe
Mapped memory image file: c:\cache\ntkrnlmp.exe\47918B0A3aa000\ntkrnlmp.exe
Image path: ntkrnlmp.exe
Image name: ntkrnlmp.exe
Timestamp: Fri Jan 18 23:30:50 2008 (47918B0A)
CheckSum: 0036A9CE
ImageSize: 003AA000
File version: 6.0.6001.18000
Product version: 6.0.6001.18000
File flags: 0 (Mask 3F)
File OS: 40004 NT Win32
File type: 1.0 App
File date: 00000000.00000000
Translations: 0409.04b0
CompanyName: Microsoft Corporation
ProductName: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
InternalName: ntkrnlmp.exe
OriginalFilename: ntkrnlmp.exe
ProductVersion: 6.0.6001.18000
FileVersion: 6.0.6001.18000 (longhorn_rtm.080118-1840)
FileDescription: NT Kernel & System
LegalCopyright: © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Anyone have ideas on how to figure out what ntkrnlmp.exe is? I am assuming thats what is causing the error. Unless I am misreading this thing.

Actually that bug check and the citing of ntkrnlmp.exe which is a core Windows driver is an indication of a hardware problem.

Have you attempted to run the SATA drive with the IDE drive disabled?

Yeah the IDE drive is not attached and the IDE options are turned off in the BIOS.