Hi all, first time poster with a lingering problem. I would appreciate any advice you've got to offer.
I've got a Dell XPS 410 that's about 6 years old at this point. Here are the specs:
Intel® Core2 Duo Processor E6600 (4MB L2 Cache,2.4GHz,1066 FSB)
I've also got an nVidia GeForce GTX 460 and a power supply to support it.
For some time now it's been crashing occasionally. I leave it on all the time and I'd find it on but unresponsive. I'd generally have to turn it off by holding down the power button for 5 seconds and then it would usually turn off and then reboot without issue. Sometimes it would acknowledge an unexpected crash and occasionally it would not turn on at all and produce a series of beeps.
I did some troubleshooting and found that my hard drive had a lot of bad sectors, so I tried replacing it. I also upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 in the transition. Once I got everything installed, updated (including Intel and nVidia drivers), and working smoothly I found that I was still having the same problem. Here are the symptoms:
1) Difficult time returning from sleep.
2) May or may not reboot after crash.
3) If it doesn't reboot, I get a consistent sequence of beeps: two long, two short, and two long.
4) At least one report of a blue screen during one of these failures (since the new hard drive and OS.)
Here is the report from Windows after the BSOD:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: a
BCP1: FFFFFA80258440A8
BCP2: 0000000000000002
BCP3: 0000000000000001
BCP4: FFFFF80002F6D792
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1
I ran "BlueScreenView" to analyze the minidump and here are a few details that it came back with:
Bug Check String - IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Bug Check Code - 0x0000000a
Parameter 1 - fffffa80`258440a8
Parameter 2 - 00000000`00000002
Parameter 3 - 00000000`00000001
Parameter 4 - fffff800`02f6d792
Caused By Driver - ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address - ntoskrnl.exe+75b80
File Description - NT Kernel & System
File Version -6.1.7601.18205 (win7sp1_gdr.130708-1532)
Does anyone have any thoughts on what could be wrong? I'm assuming that it's hardware at this point, but I'm not sure how to locate where the problem is and whether it's worth trying to replace at this point. (Or if it's time to get a new machine. :p )
Thank you for your time and help!
JC
I've got a Dell XPS 410 that's about 6 years old at this point. Here are the specs:
Intel® Core2 Duo Processor E6600 (4MB L2 Cache,2.4GHz,1066 FSB)
I've also got an nVidia GeForce GTX 460 and a power supply to support it.
For some time now it's been crashing occasionally. I leave it on all the time and I'd find it on but unresponsive. I'd generally have to turn it off by holding down the power button for 5 seconds and then it would usually turn off and then reboot without issue. Sometimes it would acknowledge an unexpected crash and occasionally it would not turn on at all and produce a series of beeps.
I did some troubleshooting and found that my hard drive had a lot of bad sectors, so I tried replacing it. I also upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 in the transition. Once I got everything installed, updated (including Intel and nVidia drivers), and working smoothly I found that I was still having the same problem. Here are the symptoms:
1) Difficult time returning from sleep.
2) May or may not reboot after crash.
3) If it doesn't reboot, I get a consistent sequence of beeps: two long, two short, and two long.
4) At least one report of a blue screen during one of these failures (since the new hard drive and OS.)
Here is the report from Windows after the BSOD:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: a
BCP1: FFFFFA80258440A8
BCP2: 0000000000000002
BCP3: 0000000000000001
BCP4: FFFFF80002F6D792
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1
I ran "BlueScreenView" to analyze the minidump and here are a few details that it came back with:
Bug Check String - IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Bug Check Code - 0x0000000a
Parameter 1 - fffffa80`258440a8
Parameter 2 - 00000000`00000002
Parameter 3 - 00000000`00000001
Parameter 4 - fffff800`02f6d792
Caused By Driver - ntoskrnl.exe
Caused By Address - ntoskrnl.exe+75b80
File Description - NT Kernel & System
File Version -6.1.7601.18205 (win7sp1_gdr.130708-1532)
Does anyone have any thoughts on what could be wrong? I'm assuming that it's hardware at this point, but I'm not sure how to locate where the problem is and whether it's worth trying to replace at this point. (Or if it's time to get a new machine. :p )
Thank you for your time and help!
JC