Memory Problems... video related? *Dell Warranty Almost Up*

[NAiLs]

I'm not really game for reformatting again (twice in about a month) after finally getting the thing to where I want it.

I was thinking of burning all the stuff on one of my portable drives, reformatting it, and installing Windows on it if I can. I know I can boot off of my USB, but I'm uncertain how I can reformat a USB drive and install XP on it. I really don't have room on my drive to make another install of XP, so that's where the portable comes in. My OS partition has ~3GB free on it, and my games/music partition has ~10GB free. Notebook HDD's FTW!

I'll defrag, but there hasn't been a bunch of stuff downloaded/deleted yet, so it shouldn't be horrible, but what am I to say?

[NAiLs]

I wanted to throw up the blue screen that I keep getting on boot or at random times while using and not using the computer. Sorry for the crappy picture and only being most of the screen, yay for cell phones. It should give you an idea of what it is saying as only a few irrelevant words are cut off.

I'm ready to reformat this machine and bitch to Dell on Friday, but just wanted to know if anyone had ideas on what the "technical information" says.

[T-Shirt]

The IRQL message means something tried to access the IRQ stack at a higher level then it was supposed to.

I believe the codes given indicate a read error (not sure I'm reading them correctly/too hard to see in the pic)

while IRQL's usually indicate a software/driver problem, non compliant hardware or even compliant hardware pushed to hard (or failing) can cause it.
one known factor is USB/external drives
When you reformat Start with just windows and the baseline driver(only whats needed) plus a test program and run it hard for a few hours/overnight,If it does BSOD, it's a Dell problem, if no BSoD (or other odd behavior) add the USB drives and test again, etc.

[NAiLs]

My USB drives aren't plugged in most of the time, and they definitely weren't when my last BSoD occured. The only USB devices I have are an Intellimouse and my Logitech wireless thing. Have owned the mouse for 8+ years and the wireless thing for 3, haven't had a problem with either on any of my computers.

I'm going to test and see if it's my wireless causing the blue screens, as it loves to crash my network, crash services in windows, and other stuff. I have it disabled in the BIOS now, but haven't uninstalled the software yet.

Any recommendations on programs to run hard? I have BurnInTest now, but I'm not sure how long you should even run that as that stresses the hell out of your hardware.


If you want a better picture of the blue screen, all I have to do is reboot and I can take a pic with my brothers camera!


I also got another letter from Dell today about my warranty expiring soon. In the letter, they offered me $229 for coverage until 2011... very tempting I might add. Their last offer was the full $299. Shall I?

[Kougar]

First I dunno about that warranty... personally I'd said no in a heartbeat and put that into a new laptop, $229 is a large chunk of a new model's cost and you can always get newer/faster components. (Not to mention it will come with a warranty of its own). I've not checked if Intel's price slashing on Core 2 Duo's means Merom is cheaper now via Dell's website. Then again, your config is a step above my Pentium M and 1gb of RAM, although it got a 7800GTX GO upgrade the last time I sent mine in for repair.

Why didn't ya just call dell about the problem, it would have saved ya a good deal of time by now? If you are still adamant about testing your laptop, I suggest you boot into the built-in diagnostic program and do the full extended batteryrun through... if it picks up a single problem in there then Dell will pretty quickly go from troubleshooting to setting up the return process. My laptop loved to shut itself down during that test, which completely befuddled the techs but made it a pretty quick affair to get the unit shipping in and back to me within a week. I forget which key, but it tells you on the first screen which one it is.

[madim]

Can someone please help me with this one?? what can I do about this error?? I got it when I tried to start Wow..

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World of WarCraft (build 6080)

Exe: C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
Time: Nov 22, 2008 5:31:53.859 PM
User: madim
Computer: LOGOS
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This application has encountered a critical error:

ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal Exception
Program: C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
Exception: 0xC0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 001B:0067BF05

The instruction at "0x0067BF05" referenced memory at "0x00000054".
The memory could not be "read".


WoWBuild: 6080
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x86 Registers
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EAX=00000000 EBX=7FFDE001 ECX=00887F54 EDX=00000001 ESI=00000000
EDI=80000001 EBP=0012FC64 ESP=0012FB60 EIP=0067BF05 FLG=00010202
CS =001B DS =0023 ES =0023 SS =0023 FS =003B GS =0000


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Stack Trace (Manual)
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Address Frame Logical addr Module

0067BF05 0012FC64 0001:0027AF05 C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
0067B839 0012FCCC 0001:0027A839 C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
004028DF 0012FF20 0001:000018DF C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
00402477 0012FF30 0001:00001477 C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
0040447E 0012FFC0 0001:0000347E C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
7C816D4F 0012FFF0 0001:00015D4F C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll

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Stack Trace (Using DBGHELP.DLL)
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0067BF05 WoW.exe <unknown symbol>+0 (0x80000001,0x00000000,0x7FFDE000,0x00CD0830)


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Loaded Modules
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0x00370000 - 0x00400000 C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\fmod.dll
0x00400000 - 0x00D89000 C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
0x03000000 - 0x03118000 C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\dbghelp.dll
0x10000000 - 0x10069000 C:\Programfiler\World of Warcraft\DivxDecoder.dll
0x5B290000 - 0x5B2C8000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll
0x5D5D0000 - 0x5D667000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\COMCTL32.dll
0x5F240000 - 0x5F30C000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\OPENGL32.dll
0x61550000 - 0x61571000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\GLU32.dll
0x71A90000 - 0x71A98000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2HELP.dll
0x71AA0000 - 0x71AB7000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll
0x71AC0000 - 0x71ACA000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WSOCK32.dll
0x71BE0000 - 0x71BF3000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\SAMLIB.dll
0x73730000 - 0x73779000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\DDRAW.dll
0x73B90000 - 0x73B96000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\DCIMAN32.dll
0x76370000 - 0x7638D000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.dll
0x76B30000 - 0x76B5D000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll
0x76F50000 - 0x76F7D000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WLDAP32.dll
0x77110000 - 0x7719C000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\OLEAUT32.dll
0x771A0000 - 0x77246000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\WININET.dll
0x773C0000 - 0x774C2000 C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.2180_x-ww_a84f1ff9\comctl32.dll
0x774D0000 - 0x7760C000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll
0x77680000 - 0x776A1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\NTMARTA.DLL
0x77A70000 - 0x77B04000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll
0x77B10000 - 0x77B22000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll
0x77BD0000 - 0x77BE5000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSACM32.dll
0x77BF0000 - 0x77BF8000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\VERSION.dll
0x77C00000 - 0x77C58000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll
0x77D30000 - 0x77DC0000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
0x77DC0000 - 0x77E6A000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
0x77E70000 - 0x77F01000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
0x77F10000 - 0x77F56000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll
0x77F60000 - 0x77FD6000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll
0x77FE0000 - 0x77FF1000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll
0x7C800000 - 0x7C8F5000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
0x7C900000 - 0x7C9AF000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
0x7C9C0000 - 0x7D1D5000 C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll


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Memory Dump
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Code: 16 bytes starting at (EIP = 0067BF05)

0067BF05: 8B 48 54 51 68 84 17 85 00 8D 95 FC FE FF FF 68 .HTQh..........h


Stack: 1024 bytes starting at (ESP = 0012FB60)

* = addr ** *
0012FB60: 84 FB 12 00 FC 71 68 00 40 6A AE 01 04 00 00 00 .....qh.@j......
0012FB70: 02 00 00 00 30 08 CD 00 40 73 AE 01 06 00 00 00 ....0...@s......
0012FB80: A4 FB 12 00 30 08 CD 00 50 66 AE 01 04 00 00 00 ....0...Pf......
0012FB90: B4 FB 12 00 FC 71 68 00 50 66 AE 01 04 00 00 00 .....qh.Pf......
0012FBA0: 02 00 00 00 5C 0C CD 00 04 00 00 00 30 08 CD 00 ....\.......0...
0012FBB0: 7C 08 CD 00 D4 FB 12 00 C1 6D 68 00 04 00 00 00 |........mh.....
0012FBC0: CE 6D 68 00 5C 0C CD 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 .mh.\...........
0012FBD0: 01 E0 FD 7F EC FB 12 00 1A 7A 68 00 02 00 00 00 .........zh.....
0012FBE0: 18 82 88 00 0D 02 00 00 DC D0 84 00 DC D0 84 00 ................
0012FBF0: 08 6B AE 01 01 E0 FD 7F 18 82 88 00 0D 02 00 00 .k..............
0012FC00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2C FC 12 00 ............,...
0012FC10: 08 6B AE 01 2C FC 12 00 25 F7 67 00 DC D0 84 00 .k..,...%.g.....
0012FC20: DC D0 84 00 08 6B AE 01 00 E0 FD 7F 50 FC 12 00 .....k......P...
0012FC30: D6 F5 67 00 DC D0 84 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..g.............
0012FC40: 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 ................
0012FC50: 5C FC 12 00 2C 0A 69 00 22 00 00 00 CC FC 12 00 \...,.i.".......
0012FC60: F6 A5 41 00 CC FC 12 00 39 B8 67 00 01 00 00 80 ..A.....9.g.....
0012FC70: 00 00 00 00 00 E0 FD 7F 30 08 CD 00 5C 0C CD 00 ........0...\...
0012FC80: 60 00 00 00 9C FC 12 00 FC 6E 68 00 5C 0C CD 00 `........nh.\...
0012FC90: 01 00 00 80 00 E0 FD 7F 88 6A AE 01 B0 FC 12 00 .........j......
0012FCA0: 69 7B 68 00 88 6A AE 01 C4 CB 84 00 FF FF FF FF i{h..j..........
0012FCB0: CC FC 12 00 94 B6 68 00 88 6A AE 01 01 00 00 80 ......h..j......
0012FCC0: D8 FC 12 00 20 FF 12 00 D0 28 00 01 20 FF 12 00 .... ....(.. ...
0012FCD0: DF 28 40 00 01 00 00 00 57 6F 72 6C 64 20 6F 66 .(@.....World of
0012FCE0: 20 57 61 72 63 72 61 66 74 00 FD 7F 77 61 72 65 Warcraft...ware
0012FCF0: 5C 42 6C 69 7A 7A 61 72 64 20 45 6E 74 65 72 74 \Blizzard Entert
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0012FD10: 00 00 00 00 63 72 61 66 74 5C 43 6C 69 65 6E 74 ....craft\Client
0012FD20: 00 01 14 00 18 08 AE 01 A8 6F 15 00 FC FE 12 00 .........o......
0012FD30: 00 00 24 00 01 07 10 00 01 05 00 00 00 00 00 05 ..$.............
0012FD40: 15 00 00 00 0D 7A 5A 33 08 00 00 00 27 00 00 00 .....zZ3....'...
0012FD50: A7 A2 D3 77 EA D4 90 7C 78 01 14 00 FF FF FF FF ...w...|x.......
0012FD60: 88 6F 15 00 00 00 00 00 B0 FD 12 00 00 10 00 00 .o..............
0012FD70: E9 9A 80 7C 78 01 14 00 EA D4 90 7C B0 6F 15 00 ...|x......|.o..
0012FD80: 1C 00 38 00 02 00 00 00 70 0D 00 00 78 01 14 00 ..8.....p...x...
0012FD90: 78 EC 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 x.F.............
0012FDA0: 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF EC 20 00 00 70 0D 00 00 ......... ..p...
0012FDB0: C0 08 00 00 00 10 00 00 E9 9A 80 7C 30 08 CD 00 ...........|0...
0012FDC0: 0B 04 00 00 8C 08 CD 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF ................
0012FDD0: BC FD 12 00 00 00 01 00 B0 FF 12 00 44 61 74 61 ............Data
0012FDE0: 5C 65 6E 47 42 00 FF FF 09 1B 91 7C F0 28 CD 00 \enGB......|.(..
0012FDF0: 88 6F 15 00 00 00 00 00 14 FF 12 00 0C FE 12 00 .o..............
0012FE00: 88 6F 15 00 18 FF 12 00 05 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 .o..............
0012FE10: 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 04 00 00 00 30 08 CD 00 ............0...
0012FE20: 30 08 CD 00 80 6F 15 00 68 01 14 00 00 00 00 00 0....o..h.......
0012FE30: 00 00 00 00 80 6F 15 00 28 00 00 00 88 6F 15 00 .....o..(....o..
0012FE40: 71 83 00 00 78 01 14 00 28 00 00 00 B0 FF 00 00 q...x...(.......
0012FE50: 00 00 14 00 4C FC 12 00 FF FF FF FF A0 FE 12 00 ....L...........
0012FE60: 18 EE 90 7C F0 06 91 7C FF FF FF FF EB 06 91 7C ...|...|.......|
0012FE70: E6 19 91 7C 24 1A 91 7C 80 C0 97 7C FA 19 91 7C ...|$..|...|...|
0012FE80: F0 28 CD 00 A1 9F 80 7C 00 00 00 00 00 E0 FD 7F .(.....|........
0012FE90: 00 D0 FD 7F 88 6F 15 00 EC FD 12 00 03 00 00 00 .....o..........
0012FEA0: B0 FF 12 00 18 EE 90 7C 10 1B 91 7C E8 03 00 00 .......|...|....
0012FEB0: D6 1A 91 7C A0 C0 97 7C A1 9F 80 7C B8 27 CD 00 ...|...|...|.'..
0012FEC0: 00 E0 FD 7F 00 E0 FD 7F 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0012FED0: 70 19 15 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 p...............
0012FEE0: 65 6E 00 00 00 00 14 00 E0 FC 12 00 F0 28 CD 00 en...........(..
0012FEF0: 47 42 00 00 18 EE 90 7C F0 06 91 7C FF FF FF FF GB.....|...|....
0012FF00: 57 44 42 43 0B 00 00 00 65 6E 47 42 00 27 CD 00 WDBC....enGB.'..
0012FF10: A4 02 00 00 2C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 6A AE 01 ....,........j..
0012FF20: 30 FF 12 00 77 24 40 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0...w$@.........
0012FF30: C0 FF 12 00 7E 44 40 00 80 A3 40 00 00 00 40 00 ....~D@...@...@.
0012FF40: 00 00 00 00 A4 23 14 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 80 .....#..........
0012FF50: D0 CE 12 00 00 E0 FD 7F 05 00 00 C0 A4 23 14 00 .............#..


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