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Dell laptop, Windows 7 and "Blue Screen" Issue

U

Umar

Flightless Bird
Below is the configuration of my Dell laptop:

MS Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit
Intel Core2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M

Each time I power the machine after hibernation, I encounter a blue
screen with the following error message:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Unexpected shutdown ...

I tried to do some troubleshooting and removed a Cisco VPN client
program that had not previously installed properly. During the removal
of this program, I encountered another blue screen with the following
message:

APC_INDEX_MISMATCH
....

At this stage, I am running the machine in "Safe Mode with
Networking".

The machine does not boot normally (i.e., safe mode turned off) and
automatically prefers to go into "blue screen" mode, leaving a poor
user experience.

Can anyone recommend how to resolve this issue and help out this "poor
user"? Depending on how hard I have to work to resolve this issue, I
may switch to Linux :-(

Thanks,

Ramu
 
B

Bob Villa

Flightless Bird
On Jul 19, 12:15 pm, Umar <ramu.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Below is the configuration of my Dell laptop:
>
> MS Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit
> Intel Core2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M
>
> Each time I power the machine after hibernation, I encounter a blue
> screen with the following error message:
>
> IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
>
> Unexpected shutdown ...
>
> I tried to do some troubleshooting and removed a Cisco VPN client
> program that had not previously installed properly. During the removal
> of this program, I encountered another blue screen with the following
> message:
>
> APC_INDEX_MISMATCH
> ...
>
> At this stage, I am running the machine in "Safe Mode with
> Networking".
>
> The machine does not boot normally (i.e., safe mode turned off) and
> automatically prefers to go into "blue screen" mode, leaving a poor
> user experience.
>
> Can anyone recommend how to resolve this issue and help out this "poor
> user"? Depending on how hard I have to work to resolve this issue, I
> may switch to Linux :-(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ramu


Some machines just have trouble coming out of Hibernation (how does it
handle Standby?). See if there is a newer nVidia driver.
 
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