I am currently running a 1.2Ghz Athlon with a MSI mobo (don't remember which one) and a MSI Geforce2 Pro.
I was having problems with my computer that I thought were due some files on the hard drive being corrupt so I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled the OS. It ran fine for about a day but then It crashed on me while I was playing counter strike and gave me the blue screen with the error irql not less or equal. At this point it wouldn't even boot all the way into windows, it would start and then the blue screen would come up again, but not always with the same error. I tried a fresh install again thinking maybe some of the stuff I downloaded might have messed something up but i got the blue screen again with the error page fault in non paged area. This time I tried to repair the windows install but got nothing. So I tried to reinstall the OS again and this time I got the blue screen while I was trying to install the OS with the error message PFN list corrupt.
I'm pretty sure that it's not software related because I get these errors while to OS is loading. But would it be possible to get these errors if the cd that I'm loading windows with is corrupt? Also, what would be some ways that I can test individual pieces of the computer such as hdd, cpu, ram, and video card.
My next step was going to be to try and update the bios and figure it out from there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I was having problems with my computer that I thought were due some files on the hard drive being corrupt so I bought a new hard drive and reinstalled the OS. It ran fine for about a day but then It crashed on me while I was playing counter strike and gave me the blue screen with the error irql not less or equal. At this point it wouldn't even boot all the way into windows, it would start and then the blue screen would come up again, but not always with the same error. I tried a fresh install again thinking maybe some of the stuff I downloaded might have messed something up but i got the blue screen again with the error page fault in non paged area. This time I tried to repair the windows install but got nothing. So I tried to reinstall the OS again and this time I got the blue screen while I was trying to install the OS with the error message PFN list corrupt.
I'm pretty sure that it's not software related because I get these errors while to OS is loading. But would it be possible to get these errors if the cd that I'm loading windows with is corrupt? Also, what would be some ways that I can test individual pieces of the computer such as hdd, cpu, ram, and video card.
My next step was going to be to try and update the bios and figure it out from there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.