A Little Advice

[jeffrow]

Running Windows XP Home ... came in over the weekend and get a BSOD with the "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, or "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, or just a BSOD with 0x0000000a, which usually means a hardware conflict. I have done the following:

Removed Old RAM, installed new RAM

Removed any components from the PCI Slots

(Video and Sound are integrated on mobo.)

Installed PCI Video Card

Unplugged cooling fan from mobo

Reseated processor

Unplugged Floppy & CD

Put in a working Win 98 HDD and get a Windows Protection Fault on it.

Tried to boot to a Win XP CD to repair and it stops at "Setup is Starting Windows"

Can boot to a Win98SE Boot Disk, but not sure what good that does me.

I don't have any hardware left to change. I looked in MSoft's KB and it talks about different things, mostly to do with RAM or Video, or maybe a corrupt paging file, but to get to that fix, I have to get into Windows first, which is impossible.

The only other option that I have is the Motherboard, do you guys think that is the problem or am I missing something? Anybody run into this before? Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Thanks

Jeff

[scouse]

I doubt it is your mobo mate, but i may be wrong.


After reading all you have said there is only one thing left to try. If you can format a hard drive wiped clean then boot up with the XP CD again and try a fresh install, now if that does not work and windows will not load then considering what you have already done it may well turn out to be the mobo.

The fact you will have tried all would leave a hahrdware issue like you say. And that points to mobo.

You have done everything already i myself can think of.
I hope you get it sorted.

You say you tried to repair but you have not tried a clean install from a formatted drive?
If not so what i said as it is the only way for sure to know if it is hardware.