Whew

**Syvarris** · 01-29-11, 10:23 PM

Well, I was replacing my CPU last night, and I turned on my computer on, only to find that I blue screened every five minutes. IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Ended up being a virus, I couldn't recover to a partition, so I had to wipe the hard drive using Boot N' Nuke. Not fun, now I have to reinstall everything, need to start keeping backups.

Syv.

**Syvarris** · 01-29-11, 10:47 PM

Dammit, now I'm blue screening. Should I try updating my BIOS? It's like two years old. The processor also came out of a gateway I had, and Intel core 2 quad q8200. The mobo on it fried, but if the CPU was fried, it wouldn't have started in the first place, right? The previous processor was a core 2 duo. Do I need to update my BIOS for the new processor?

**dex71** · 01-30-11, 09:07 AM

I would......

At least look into the MB. It may need a BIOS update to support the CPU.

**HeavyG** · 01-30-11, 11:16 AM

Yes, the BIOS may not recognize the quad core CPU. What kind of motherboard do you have?

**Syvarris** · 01-30-11, 05:21 PM

My motherboard is an Asus, the computer came with it, with the dual core. The error I keep getting is page found in nonpaged area. That or irql not less or equal. I think those are BIOS problems, from what I've heard, BIOS updates aren't that hard on Asus mobos.

**WileECyte** · 01-31-11, 12:05 AM

If a BIOS update doesn't fix it, I'd wager the CPU is fried too. That blue screen you're getting is a pretty vague one. It can mean any number of issues.

**flame** · 01-31-11, 12:15 AM

yeah, I just looked those two bsod's on a laptop I was working on, ended up being memory, but several of them showed software issues for those errors.