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I decided I would run the system restore since I didnt have anything important on there and there was a crazy thing about folders not deleting unless I connected to it via a remote computer (\\laptop\share\). I pressed the neat little blue button. It began to load the alternate desktop and I was once again greeted with a mournful message about a certain file being missing or corrupted. I reached for my restore CD's I had burned. They too failed to load. I rebooted the machine a few times, It wouldnt start in safe mode or normal. I eventually got some IRQ NOT LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO errors. After deciding there was maybe some hardware issue, I removed the only hardware I could. The DVD drive. Still errors. I then removed the 1gb stick of ram........
The machine booted. At this point I was like, oh my ram has caught fire and is now burning in a fire in hell for some reason. When I got to windows, I sought out what the error was with norton. I learned that norton installs a virtual device driver sometimes and that it can cause IRQ NOT LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO errors. I uninstalled norton and rebooted the machine and everything was running peachy on 256mb of ram, although [censored] slow (I forgot I had no page file, since before with 1.3gb of ram there wasnt much point). I decided to stick the gb stick back in the laptop. The machine booted. Everything was fine. I went back to my bedroom to browse the interweb before napping for 8 hrs. I opened firefox and decided I would turn off the page file again. Upon right clicking on my computer and going to manage my computer, I was welcomed by the friendly blue screen again
.Taking out the ram once again fixed this. I eventually RMA'd the ram. During the 2+ weeks that I was without the 1gb stick, the laptop ran perfectly fine. The ram arrives, I insert. wuwu, Kernel32.dll is missing or invalid!
So, summary:
-worked fine for 5 months
-randomly crashes with 1gb + 256mb
-works fine with 256mb
-i've put the 1gb stick in both slots, moved both sticks around, same result
-i have ran a system restore, same fun stuff
-i've run the crappy pc doctor, it says my ram is peachy, then i get a blue screen later that day
-i downloaded some microsoft memory test thing you burn to cd and let it run all night, says there are no problems.
-the errors are random. sometimes missing or invalid files (kernel32.dll, pci.sys, ntfs.sys seem to be favorites). other times random bsod's are the result.
-sometimes when it crashes, and i power it down, the machine will not boot back up. i press the power button, the hard drive light comes on, the machien beeps 1 time but the screen never kicks on and there seems to be no hard drive activity.
-the error has happend while trying to run the alternate desktop program, so i dont think it's a windows issue.
Help?
