Any computer boffins out there to help me???

Question

Just built computer, pcchips m/board AMD Athlon cpu. 80gig hdd. want to install xp home, problem is. on start up following message appears ERROR. IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Technical info. OXOOOOOOOA (OX8E8C2OFO, OXOOOOOOO2, OXOOOOOOO1, OX8O8O6F62) Please help!!!

Answer 1

Unplug all of your PCI boards. If your motherboard has an on board graphics output use that and remove the Graphics board.



Install windows then replace the Boards.



I have had this problem on a few machines and this seems to work. The problem seems to be related to the IRQ's and how the BIOS tries to set them up.

Answer 2

Microsoft Knowledge Base...



SYMPTOMS

After you install a driver, the system stops responding, and you receive the following error message in nt!KiActivateWaiterQueue+0x27:

Stop Error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (0xA)

The initial stack trace indicates that the problem is in the Fast Fat driver.

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CAUSE

This problem typically occurs because drivers call either the IoQueueWorkItem function or the ExQueueWorkItem function two times on the same work item before the work item has been executed.



Device drivers that statically allocate either the IO_WORKITEM structure or the WORK_QUEUE_ITEM structure are particularly prone to this problem. Device drivers that perform such a static allocation must guarantee that they do not try to use the statically allocated item while it is already queued.



See the whole article for how to handle this fix...

Answer 3

IT's a hardware problem, the OS is having.... The drivers for the preivious install, will not work with the new OS.



DON"T upgrade, save you files to a USB key or CD/DVD and do a fresh install....



Start the installation and at the point where it asks you where to install the new OS on a hard drive partition, hit ESC, if iti s serarching for previous installations, and delete all partitions and create them again, then format the partitions and continue the install...





If you insist on an upgrade, there is a work round, but it is time consumming...





http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311564

Answer 4

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Answer 5

If this happened after you installed device drivers,



http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314063



try rebooting in safe mode, then remove the drivers you just installed. If you haven't installed drivers yet, you probably have defective RAM.

Answer 6

well.. it should work.. take your original XP cd to the store where you bought it from and ask there what's the problem (you should also have your computer with you ).