----- Original Message -----
From: "Bobby Heid" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 8:15 PM
Subject: [H] Win XP stop error D1
Hey,
A neighbor's pc (Gateway 500SE) was showing SMART errors so I suggested
that
we replace the HD with a new one. It turns out they had a 40GB HD in it
and
I got a 500GB HD to replace it with, I ghosted the old drive and restored
the image to the new drive. I then put the new drive in and booted up. I
get a blue screen with a D1 error (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
In looking around in the BIOS, I saw that the BIOS could only see 137GB
max
of the HD. SO I made 4 partitions and restored the image to the C:
partition and rebooted. Still the same D1 stop error.
So I then upgrade the BIOS (this machine is about 8 years old and I'm sure
it had the BIOS that shipped with it) to the latest version. The BIOS can
now see all 500GB on the HD. But I am still getting the D1 blue screeb.
Well, I had the very same error after cloning to a larger new hard drive and
when I checked the 7+
year old DFI mainboard I found 8 blown capacitors leaking onto the
motherboard. I am curently trying
to decide wether the thing is even worth repairing. My experience over the
last 15 years has proven to me at least
that a blue screen at bootup is an indication of a hardware problem of one
kind or another.
