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I have seen several BSOD when my XPe(SP2) is rebooting. It is not every
reboot but mostly I see: Stop Code 0xA IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I ran the MS
debug tools on the Mini Dump file and it is pointing to ntoskrnl.exe as a
probable cause. I have run memtest for 15 -20 passes with no errors. Does
anyone have any insight to what may be causing my BSOD/instability?
 
Hi UTF,

this behavior is shown, if something with
the numerating of your harddisks went wrong.
Try to connect/disconnect a harddisk or IDE device. Perhaps also works, to
put an USB device together at boottime.
After one succesfull boot, XPE changes itself the harddisk numeration and
all connected/disconnected drives can be removed.

Nice to hear from you
Dietmar
 
Thanks Dietmar
I am getting closer to resolving this issue. Looks to be pointing towards a
display driver. I have changed the ServiceGroupOrder so that the
driver(service) is started earlyer, therefor the application(service) loading
the driver will not attempt to load the driver the same time the os is.

Thanks again
Dan
 
Dan said:
Thanks Dietmar
I am getting closer to resolving this issue. Looks to be pointing towards a
display driver. I have changed the ServiceGroupOrder so that the
driver(service) is started earlyer, therefor the application(service) loading
the driver will not attempt to load the driver the same time the os is.

Thanks again
Dan
Click to expand...

This error is normally device driver related.

Not necessarily in driver load order but rather a part of driver code
attempting to execute at an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL the priveledged level
it is supposed to execute at.

ie. the IRQL is higher than it is supposed be for this piece of code to
be executed.
 
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