blue screen of death

[shelbygoat]

Getting this at random times when I am working on my laptop. It is an older laptop purchased new in/around 2006. Compaq CQ50-142US. I loaded a new copy of Windows 7 Home Ultimate edition on it. Nothing else on it has changed. I did check out how much memory was in it, but didn't replace it. The 90 at the bottom counts up from 1 to 100 and then the computer restarts on me.

What do you make of it and what is the fix?

[Broken External Image]:

 

[the_great_white]

 

[CCR]

No, but I bet Customer Service in Calcutta does
Hope you get it fixed

 

[oneill]

Same thing happened to my Compaq. Turned out my HD was fried.

 

[shelbygoat]

Same thing happened to my Compaq. Turned out my HD was fried.

that is what someone else had said also

 

[jwhited]

The "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" error tells me that your system is having an issue with one of your device drivers.
The "athr.sys" reference near the bottom tells me that it's specifically a problem with your wireless network adapter's driver.

Updating your driver ought to fix the problem. Only issue might be, whether Compaq makes Windows 7 drivers for that particular model.

Reference thread: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Wirele...sys-DRIVER-IRQL-NOT-LESS-OR-EQUAL/td-p/109035
Drivers for your PC model: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=3813512#N420

 

[shelbygoat]

downloaded the wireless driver from the HP site, installed it, restarted the computer, and will see if it does it again

im hoping this will last 1 more year in korea and then a new laptop will be had when i get back to the states

 

[blazedawg87]

 

[OnepageBook]

The "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" error tells me that your system is having an issue with one of your device drivers.
The "athr.sys" reference near the bottom tells me that it's specifically a problem with your wireless network adapter's driver.

Updating your driver ought to fix the problem. Only issue might be, whether Compaq makes Windows 7 drivers for that particular model.

Reference thread: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Wirele...sys-DRIVER-IRQL-NOT-LESS-OR-EQUAL/td-p/109035
Drivers for your PC model: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=3813512#N420

Ahh the power of google strikes again.

Atheros chipsets are finicky(one the best for packet injection ) but as long as you can find the driver for at least Vista it should work fine. If the manufacture does not have a driver for your model however there are other places to find drivers specific to that chipset that should work.

 

[jwhited]

Ahh the power of google strikes again.

Atheros chipsets are finicky(one the best for packet injection ) but as long as you can find the driver for at least Vista it should work fine. If the manufacture does not have a driver for your model however there are other places to find drivers specific to that chipset that should work.

I'd wager that if he was doing any sort of packet injection, he probably wouldn't be using Windows. But that's neither here nor there.

I'm curious to know if updated drivers solved the problem.