Comments on: How to Fix Blue Screen Errors

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:18:34 +0000

I am encountering the “IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL” error on my Dell laptop. I read above this is usually a driver problem. I tried both Startup repair and System Restore, to no avail. I don’t THINK any drivers were updated recently. How do I find out? It works in safe mode, but trying to run it in normal mode always gets me a BSOD, which will only remain on the screen for a few seconds before it automatically reboots. I think it’s possible it may have been damaged when I turned it on, immediately went to plug it in but hit power instead on accident, it turned off, then I very quickly turned it back on. That’s when this started. What could I have done? Man I wish I hadn’t done that…. Ever have one of those moments you think “I really, REALLY wish I could go back in time for a minute”. That’s me.
Thanks for the help and for this site!
Natalie

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:35:01 +0000

I am having the same problem as frank, unmountable boot volume. I put in the recovery CD and I press R to repair, the computer goes to another screen and it says examining… at the bottom but at that point it just freezes and doesn’t ever start the repair or bring up the prompts. Any suggestions?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:38:26 +0000

@razzal – The .NET framework should not be causing such problems, and the update to 3.5 is also fine. Actually the .NET framework is already integrated with Windows 7.
The HDD should also not cause these errors as long as the necessary drivers are installed for your SATA controller (assuming it is SATA). Seems to me like you had a problem with your startup files, it could even be a bot sector virus.
There is no problem in trying Windows 7, just check the compatibility of your PC hardware first.

@Reneata – Stop error 0×00000024 is indeed a serious error with your hard disk. If your system has no CD< you will also not be able to install Windows again when you insert a new HDD. You have two options:
1) put the HDD in a different computer and repair it there, then put it back.
2) use a bootable external USB disk (or large USB memory stick) with Windows on it and repair the disk after you boot from that.
In either case, start with a simple "chkdsk /r" command.

By: Reneata

Reneata — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:29:44 +0000

?Stop 0×00000024 NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM this is my error message ive tried F8 and safe mode and nothign is workign and my laptop has no cd drive so i cant reinstall windows should i replace the hard drive then?

By: razzal

razzal — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:41:32 +0000

Hi all.
Just received the BSOD with about 3 errors that are;- win32k.sys
ntoskrnl.exe
hal.dll
I’m not sure but i think it all started after i installed sketchup pro. while installing that software, it asked me about installing MS net-frame 2. All went fine, then the next day MS update showed that i should update net-frame to 3 plus some others so i did and letter, bum! i started getting those errors.
I first thought that it might be my new 2tb HDD so i changed it to my old 1tb and installed a fresh new windows xp, while installing the drives for the pc parts i plug in my usb stick to download some drives and as i unplugged the usb stick, i got an other error, so i’m thinking its now not the HDD thats giving the problem but the usb internal card.

What i would really want to know is, can windows 7 over come these errors?

Thanks.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:03:35 +0000

@bevan – If you cannot boot in Safe Mode and the Last Known Good Configuration also does not work, you will need a Windows setup disc or Recovery CD. When you boot from that, you can try to repair or recover Windows.

@kelly – Are you running any Symantec software? If that is the case, stop error 0×00000020 can be caused by the symevent.sys driver file. Please see the Microsoft knowledge base article on that.

@Dav e Van Saun – I am not familiar with that error message. But from the description of your problems, you might want to consider reinstalling Windows XP altogether.

By: Dav e Van Saun

Dav e Van Saun — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:25:25 +0000

Had a blue screen – got the computer back for a week.
Kept getting Trojan error messages from McAfee.
McAfee asked to do a bunch of checks and updates and asked me to reboot. Ever since I can not get past a blue screen.
It opens the XP Windows page and then goes dark and a blue screen comes up and then the PC turns off and a new Blue screen comes up with fatal error Message oxc0000034. I can not get into safe mode it just bypasses it and attempts a normal boot. All testing done through the f12 log in say that all of my systems Pass. Any ideas?

By: kelly

kelly — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:37:07 +0000

I’m getting hit with

KERNEL_APC_PENDING_DURING_EXIT

Technical info

STOP: 0×00000020 (0×00000000, 0x0000FFFF, 0×00000001)

It’s fine in safe mode but if I start up normally I get the blue screen after five minutes.
help! Thanks in advance

By: bevan

bevan — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:35:07 +0000

hi i have the bsod on my pc the windows logo shows and flashes blue for 1 sec and reboots for no reason so i cant read the stop code. Im using my laptop. safe mode dosent work. if it helps my pc is a NTFS file system that has windows xp on it . what caused this was because i downloaded a game rom because im a gamer and it had bsod when i came back. please help if you guys can help.thanks

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:58:18 +0000

@George - Stop error 0x000000D1 is a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error. From the past I know that in most cases this is caused by a driver problem. You are running Windows 7, right? Did you update any drivers? @Jay - Stop error 0x00000024 is a problem with your NTFS file system. Could be the ntfs.sys, but can just as well be a disk corruption. You will need a recovery disk or Windows setup disk to boot. Then use the recovery console to check the disk. You can use a number of disk commands to check and fix your disk in the recovery console.