What you have to say does not alter what I said in my last post.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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BigDogR wrote:
> Just tried to restart the windows repair, not system recovery, after
> taking both sound card and video capture card out and still had the
> BSOD, IRQL message... stopping me in my tracks when the devices are
> being loaded on the Windows installation screen.
>
>
>> What exactly is your Windows XP system CD? Is the computer a laptop
>> or a desktop?
>>
>> My feeling is you are going to have to reinstall and then dealing
>> with any problems as you find them. There is a preferred sequence
>> and perhaps this is where you went wrong the last time you installed.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
>>
>> BigDogR wrote:
>>> I have a BYOC about 4 years old. Pentium 4. 1 GB RAM. Audigy 2
>>> sound card, ATI Radeon 9600 Video Card, Diamond Xtreme Video Capture
>>> card.
>>>
>>> I did successfully connect the main drive to my laptop and have been
>>> copying files to the laptop as a backup. Have additional hard drive
>>> and external hard drive but cannot access because the computer is
>>> stuck in a windows repair mode and cannot get to safe mode to backup
>>> data.
>>>
>>> The odd thing when all of this was happening was I was getting "new
>>> installed hardware screens for my VIA IDE Controller. Also had
>>> yellow asterisks in Device Manager for multimedia audio controller
>>> (assuming it was for the Audigy 2), multimedia video controller
>>> (assuming it was for the Xtreme board), the firewire port (located
>>> on the Audigy 2 card). Whenever I would try to update the drivers
>>> for any of these, even with the original disc or downloaded drivers
>>> from manufacturer's sites, I would get "data is invalid" error
>>> message. That is what led me to change the permissions on the
>>> registry keys. After following the instructions on a number of
>>> websites for this problem I would still get the BSOD problem with
>>> either IRQL_Not_Less.. or Drivers_IRQL_...
>>>
>>> I also removed both cards and rebooted and got the same BSOD
>>> messages. I installed them on different slots as well with no
>>> success.
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your response.
>>>
>>>> What is your computer make and model?
>>>>
>>>> What exactly is your Windows XP system CD?
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried disconnecting all hardware except keyboard, mouse
>>>> and monitor?
>>>>
>>>> Is it a laptop or desktop? Do you have a second computer where you
>>>> could install the drive from the problem computer as a slave /
>>>> second drive?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> Gerry
>>>> ~~~~
>>>> FCA
>>>> Stourport, England
>>>> Enquire, plan and execute
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> BigDogR wrote:
>>>>> I have been getting a lot of driver issues, BSOD IRQL.. and BSOD
>>>>> Driver IRQL... When I was trying to update drivers for sound
>>>>> card, multimedia card, etc. I would get "Data is invalid" message.
>>>>> I went through the registrys trying to increase permissions.
>>>>> Then I proceeded to repair my windows XP and I got the BSOD
>>>>> IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal Stop: 0x0000000A (0x805769AB, 0x00000000,
>>>>> 0x00000000, 0x805769AB) when the Installing Devices. I cannot get
>>>>> to safe mode to disable hardware. I went to the MS website
>>>>> however, it does not cover how to address this problem when
>>>>> repairing Windows.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to avoid reformating my hard drive with a fresh XP
>>>>> installation, however, I think I will get the same error.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions? This has been frustrating. I have been at it
>>>>> for more
>>>>> than 2 weeks trying to fix this problem.
