Blue screen during Quick Scan..

[burf]

I did my normal database update, before doing a quick scan today.

A couple of minutes into the scan, I got ye olde Blue Screen - -

Stop 0x0000000A (0x00000004, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804ED4E9)

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

This never happened before. Running XP Pro Sp3, GB memory. Very tight, clean install, with no problems ever. Just chugs along flawlessly, so this was a surprise.

Any help/ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[GT500]

That's odd... IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is usually a hardware issue...

What do your event logs say?

[AdvancedSetup]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...7.mspx?mfr=true

[GT500]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...7.mspx?mfr=true

Yes, and usually when I see it it's caused by bad RAM...

[burf]

Thanks for the responses.

I actually did a memory test, over 7 hours, thinking the same thing. All came out ok.

Nothing in my event logs.

It's never happened before, nor did it happen with any other scans I did today to test (KAV & Spybot), which are much longer scans.

It happened that first time, then I did a bit of simple maintenance (chkdsk & a defrag)... happened a second time, with the exact same error (same numbers).

But the third time I tried it, a while ago, it was fine.

I also do a lot of memory/cpu intensive video processing, and nothing happens.

It seemed to happen shortly after the scan moved from the registry to files.

Weird. I'll keep my eye on it.

Thanks again for the responses... I was wondering if you guys had seen it before.

[GT500]

There are occasional issues like this, but not enough to pin down a common cause. I have to assume it's something unique about the setup or drivers on each system that encounters it, but it's hard to tell.

Now that I think about it though, we can always use DebugView to get the developers a log of what happened.