Frequent ?IRQ NOT LESS THAN EQUAL crashes on X31 (2672)

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elray · #1 Post by **elray** » Tue May 06, 2008 2:23 pm

I am getting BSOD and reboot about every other day for the last month.

I replaced the memory with new, and it continues.

The machine does seem to run hot, but its an X31, so that's expected?

Is there any known course to diagnose and fix this condition?
Is it common? I haven't found much info on it searching.

I can live with it, it really doesn't interrupt me that much. But it does disimpress me regards MS and IBM quality-control...

qviri · #2 Post by **qviri** » Tue May 06, 2008 2:36 pm

Can you run memtest86 overnight and see if it has any errors in the morning?

m509272 · #3 Post by **m509272** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:45 am

Sounds like memory to me too.

It shouldn't run "that" hot. I have one too and it's on 24x7. I bought one of those cooler pads but don't like the noise. However, I turned the pad sideways and have the laptop on there hanging off the sides so there's some airflow underneath instead of sitting directly on a solid desktop.

bobbarker · #4 Post by **bobbarker** » Wed May 07, 2008 2:57 pm

I've actually just run in to the same problem myself today (X31, 2672). Windows gets a somewhat frequent (albeit random) BSOD, linux (completely separate hard disk) just stalls (or gets a kernel panic at boot). It's not running hot at all, the hard disk is fine (and only a few months old) and a brand new linux install (was stable until today) and a month or so old XP install which had no problems.

EDIT:
5 memtest passes later...no errors.

Txiasaeia · #5 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:51 pm

This can't be a coincidence... X31 2672-PBU, just hit this error today when I was doing a full reinstall. Memory's not the issue - I've had the error on install on three different memory sticks, each running solo in the computer (2 x 256, 1 x 1GB). I have nothing else to say except that, after all the files are copied, the computer hard crashes, reboots, and says that it's recovered from a serious system fault (& wants to send stuff to Microsoft). Note that this is the first time that the desktop comes up.

Other quirks: sometimes the video card driver is installed perfectly fine before it crashes, other times the video card driver does not install. The USB bays don't work either.

IBM killswitch?

Not that I would mind getting a new X61...

bobbarker · #6 Post by **bobbarker** » Sat May 10, 2008 1:49 am

Txiasaeia wrote:IBM killswitch? Not that I would mind getting a new X61...

I'm not one to jump to conspiracy theories...but...well that "security" chip is the red flashing light in the palm of the X31**...

**Slightly obscure?

Txiasaeia · #7 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Sun May 11, 2008 9:24 pm

bobbarker wrote:
Txiasaeia wrote:IBM killswitch? Not that I would mind getting a new X61...
I'm not one to jump to conspiracy theories...but...well that "security" chip is the red flashing light in the palm of the X31**...

**Slightly obscure?

... yes?

On a more serious note: a full reinstall from the original install CDs (instead of the restore partition) seemed to have done the trick. Odd. Either a) the restore partition is different from the restore CDs, or b) the restore partition was somehow corrupted. Very, very odd. Oh well - it means I won't have to give up my beloved X31 just yet.

bobbarker · #8 Post by **bobbarker** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:12 pm

Txiasaeia wrote:On a more serious note: a full reinstall from the original install CDs (instead of the restore partition) seemed to have done the trick. Odd. Either a) the restore partition is different from the restore CDs, or b) the restore partition was somehow corrupted. Very, very odd. Oh well - it means I won't have to give up my beloved X31 just yet.

I might have to try that on mine. I had it going for a night, but it broke itself again...

Txiasaeia wrote:... yes?

Logan's Run for those who found it too obscure...

Txiasaeia · #9 Post by **Txiasaeia** » Fri May 16, 2008 1:28 am

Ah, Logan's Run: sitting on my shelf, but not watched yet.

Day 5 after reinstall from CDs, and the problem seems to have gone away. Hope this helps!

elray · #10 Post by **elray** » Thu May 29, 2008 7:53 pm

I don't know if its related, but my wireless started getting flakey and IRQ Not Equal errors increased rapidly to 5x daily.

Dump analysis (or whatever its called) actually declared the Intel Pro 2100 as the likely suspect, and said the driver was out of date.

Indeed, it was. An updated version was downloaded from Lenovo, and there have been no further BSODs, yet.

http://wer.microsoft.com/responses/Resp ... 2ee7ead14e

Frequent ?IRQ NOT LESS THAN EQUAL crashes on X31 (2672)

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