Oh Joy! BSOD!

[chameleon]

Started getting a few BSODs today.
Its the old IRQL not less or equal than error.
Tested my memory with memtest (individually then both together) and found no errors. Snot done it again for a while, any suggestions?

 

[uv]

most likely a driver error then.. can you look for the message in eventvwr, so you can see which driver caused it?

 

[Craig321]

Analyse the dump file.

C:\WINDOWS\Minidump - look for the latest one.

Follow this guide: http://www.memecode.com/docs/minidump.php

Once analyse it should give the file that caused the BSOD. Post it here if you're unsure.

 

[chameleon]

Hmm, all I have is a couple of application errors at around 20:00, one of the times it crashed. Dosent seem to be any driver probs. Also I havent changed or added anything recently.

 

[chameleon]

Progress (of sorts) Now I dont get a BSOD but I do get a random lockup where I have to turn the system off cos it has stopped responding...

Poop! I spoke too soon. I just got another BSOD with "BUGCODE USB DRIVER" this time. It never seems to be the same thing twice? I dont know whats going on.
Got this from debug log:
Opened log file 'c:\debuglog.txt'
0: kd> .sympath srv*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
Symbol search path is: srv*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
0: kd> .reload;!analyze -v;r;kv;lmnt;.logclose;q
Loading Kernel Symbols
................................................................................................................................................
Loading User Symbols
Loading unloaded module list
...............
*******************************************************************************
* *
* Bugcheck Analysis *
* *
*******************************************************************************

BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER (fe)
USB Driver bugcheck, first parameter is USB bugcheck code.
Arguments:
Arg1: 00000005, USBBUGCODE_INVALID_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS The host controller is
using a physical memory address that was not allocated by
the USBport driver.
Arg2: 8a1f60e0, Device extension pointer of the host controller
Arg3: 10de036c, PCI Vendor,Product id for the controller
Arg4: 87cff8d8, Pointer to Endpoint data structure

Debugging Details:
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[chameleon]

Come to think of it, there has been a couple of automatic windows updates recently. Could one of these have buggered things up? How would I check what has been changed recently?

 

[Bobario]

On XP, go to Windows Update and click on Review Update History. Couldnt say about Vista.

 

[chameleon]

Ive restored back to about a week ago to counter any updates Ive had recently. I got another freeze this afternoon. I seems to be half n half between BSODs and system freezes. Also seems to throw up a different error each time. One thing I noticed in Eventvwr is a device error on a HDD:
The driver detected a controller error on \device\harddisk2\D

I think this was just prior to the lockup...