My computer is broken. Help me fix it?

[rJCaiG]

MMMMKAY.
Here begins the epic tale of the faulty & frustratingly broken computer of SAPD Lieutenant GiacJr.
One fine day a few days before christmas, the slowly-deteriorating specs of the computer adformentioned finally got a glimpse of hope that a possible upgrade may be near. About two days before christmas, I turned off my baby and wished it good luck on the other side. I installed a brand new motherboard, tricked out with 8 USB slots. I also installed a new 550 watt power supply to deal with my epic new motherboard's upkeep. I turned my computer back on and prayed - after a few attempts to get the new software installed, I finally got it to work.
All was swell for two weeks. It went fine and I had no problems. And then, this grace period of awesomeness and USB-magic ended in tradgety. I got an ill-fated Blue Screen Of Death.
"Shit!", I thought to myself. I hadn't gotten a blue screen for months, if not years!
Here are the contents of this horrible, horrible BSOD...
"driver_irql_not_less_or_equal"
So this blue screen appeared to be an isolated incident - until two days later when I was listening to music and I got the same error.
This led me to beleive that the problem was my sound card, a part of my sparkling new motherboard.
As I was sharing my thoughts with my dad, the idea formed in my head that it could possibly be the source of my music - the external HD. Shit, it's a magical breakthrough in my thought process.
I unplugged my poor 420GB External HD.
Two days passed without problem. I then dared to plug it back in and observe the results. All was swell. Then I begun listening to music. All was swell. For about 30 minutes, that is. Bang, blue screen.
I unplugged that bitch and restarted. Over the next few weeks I plugged it into random USB ports when I needed to listen to music or play steam games. I eventually moved my music to an internal HD. I had over 30 Blue Screens over this period, frustrating me to a point where I think I may have let my anger out IG a few imes  :roll: . My dad then bought me a new, amazingly awesome 1tb External HD. I moved all my items onto this shiny new HD. I then proceeded to unplug my old external and throw it at something in anger, praying that it was indeed the cause of my blue screens.

Move onto today. Approximately 2 hours ago, I turned my computer on. I got to the loading screen for windows, then just before the login screen, BANG! Blue screen.
Wait...My 420GB External wasn't plugged in...
It was a standard blue screen without a particular error.
Fuck it, I said to myself. I restarted.
I then got back to square fucking one...
"driver_irql_not_less_or_equal"
Here are some assorted error messages of pictures I kept, of blue screens I got over the last few weeks...
BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER
BAD_POOL_HEADER

I tried to update all of my USB Drivers but none of them needed updating...
My dad had 2 suggestions:
Try and find any updates fo my motherboard's software.
Format if worst comes to worst; I may need to format due to not formatting when installing the new motherboard.


I read back on this topic and realise how poorly structured it is. Ah well, you can figure it out.
Any help IS appreciated, and the sooner I fix this problem the sooner I can play in peace... >_>


 :ps: How do you know when you have no faith in yourself?
When you unplug your computer, fiddle around with the shit inside, then when you go to turn it back on you press the button and jump back 10 metres expecting it to explode or catch on fire... 

[Kent]

Try searching something about blue screen of death at http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx
There should be something that can help you
I had also a blue screen of death, but that wasnt fixable 

[rJCaiG]

I did some googling, found nothing of use...

[Hidduh]

Oh noes! Giac!

[TheRock]

First if you got data you want to save and you got an external hard drive, I'd advise you grab your self an portable Windows Live CD which is also a small installation of XP on a CD(700mb) on which you can boot and run windows xp by.. and which allows you to browse your data and browse the web.. so by this you can save your data... then you can try re-formatting your pc

Now I realize I haven't got any blue death screen since I've changed my GPU.... I remember I used to get random crashes when I used to play games using the old Nvidia GeForce 8600GS

[Kent]

Could you make a screen? About the blue dead of screen...
Maybe I can check it by google   :roll:
And try to delete your files by clicking F8 while starting up the computer

[Ziad]

k first try to change your RAM second try change your Power Supply if no any then  :bye: to your mother board ... your epic mother bored got killed by your epic power supply

[Bilbo]

Have you installed any new drivers lately or have you upgraded your Sound Card recently? Any other component upgrades? For example on memory? (RAM) If you're able to, you could also try to replace your memory sticks (again, RAM) with other ones. As I'm reading some Finnish forums now, people have had something like this caused due to broken memory sticks.

Also, if you're running a Windows XP, you could try the instructions on this website: http://www.vladd44.com/other/irq_error.php
According to that, it may also be caused by a problem with your NIC (Network Interface Card aka Network Card). On the bottom of the page is also a link for a program called Memtest, which you can use to test in case this actually is a memory based problem.

EDIT: As for searching Google with those other error codes you told, it's most likely memory problem.

[dtlove]

Hit it with a Hammer, That usually works, Nah, I'll look into it for you.
Dan

[Grovyle]

Okay:
1. May be the USB entrys making interference
2.

Have you installed any new drivers lately or have you upgraded your Sound Card recently? Any other component upgrades? For example on memory? (RAM) If you're able to, you could also try to replace your memory sticks (again, RAM) with other ones. As I'm reading some Finnish forums now, people have had something like this caused due to broken memory sticks.

Also, if you're running a Windows XP, you could try the instructions on this website: http://www.vladd44.com/other/irq_error.php
According to that, it may also be caused by a problem with your NIC (Network Interface Card aka Network Card). On the bottom of the page is also a link for a program called Memtest, which you can use to test in case this actually is a memory based problem.

EDIT: As for searching Google with those other error codes you told, it's most likely memory problem.

3. Run safe mode and try system restore.
4. VIRUS?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? Run a scan on your shiny 1tb disk
5. Abseloutely nothing else works (make sure to search everywhere in hardware solutions in the internets), FORMAT
6. IF THAT DOESN'T EVEN WORK... Change your madafakin motherboard it's killin ya pee cee

[Juraj_horvath]

Maybe put the motherboards name here or try the manufacturer website. If that wont help, prob format. Also, you could check if your power supply is enough to keep it all running.

[rJCaiG]

Okay here's where I'm at...
I updated everything to do with the motherboard, I updated my graphics card. I virus scanned my entire computer. I tried EVERYTHING.
Yet the random BSOD's still keep coming, so I decided to try another path...
I've removed one of my two 1gb RAM sticks to see if that's causing it...
It's been out for approx. 1 hour and no blue screen yet, so i'm staying hopeful on that front...
Will keep you updated, thanks for the support and suggestions so far!

[Bilbo]

If the blue screen still occurs, remember to test it otherway around. :p (memory sticks)

[rJCaiG]

Yeah I know :P
So far no blue screen, but my computer froze...although I think that was my graphics card, as my G15's LED display continued to function properly, whereas if the whole computer froze it wouldn't.

[battle]

Yeah I know :P
So far no blue screen, but my computer froze...although I think that was my graphics card, as my G15's LED display continued to function properly, whereas if the whole computer froze it wouldn't.

I got the same error yesterday but thats the first time i popped and i have g15 also, but anyway, i think it was a single incident.