Solving my crash issues

[tybert7]

Ever since I went from xp to vista, and then vista to windows 7, I have been having crash issues.


My hardware is virtually the same.

e8500 cpu
4 gigs of ram
several hard drives
graphics card


under windows xp though I could only see 3 gigs of my ram as it was not 64bit, so I do a clean install of vista, and the bsod occurrences begin.

the most common is the message

irql_not_less_or_equal

but several others bring my system to its knees


I thought it might have something to do with the extra ram I was reading, or some extra issue with the SAME HARDWARE that is having an issue in the newer operating system.


When I did a clean install of windows 7, the issue persists. There must be some kind of hardware issue, maybe a driver, but something is not right, and this problem will not go away.


there are innumerable crash dump files somewhere, where are they? where does windows save the crash files? I could post some of them if I had that info.


I ran memtest from a start up disk and it found no errors in my memory, did not run prime 95 or anything, but there must be some diagnostic that can pinpoint the issue causing the crashes. I need to know so I can fix the issue.

 

[OldMX]

Try flashing to latest motherboard bios and use its default settings, if possible after a clean install, get latest drivers for everything.

The crashdumps are stored on \windows\minidump folder.

 

[engiNURD]

http://aumha.org/a/stop.php

0x0000000A: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Typically due to a bad driver, or faulty or incompatible hardware or software. Use the General Troubleshooting of STOP Messages checklist above. Technically, this error condition means that a kernel-mode process or driver tried to access a memory location to which it did not have permission, or at a kernel Interrupt ReQuest Level (IRQL) that was too high. (A kernel-mode process can access only other processes that have an IRQL lower than, or equal to, its own.)