Dell D800

[Bobc11]

Well, I have a dell d800 that had not been working for some time and I bought a used motherboard and It seemed to fix the problem but sometimes I cant get to post and when I run dells diagnostics when it does a certin test the dcreen goes white and a aray of flashing lights and beeps happen. Aslo the process is only performing at 600mhz. Any idea why? What's wrong with my computer?

[yardbird]

Greetings

I have three Dell's and if they come with a (nVIDIA Geforce 4200 Go 64MB) as your does? I pulled out 2 out of 3 video cards and replaced them with advice from a helper here. How to take it apart - I joined the Dell Support forum. got good help there! nVIDIA video cards & Dell don't play well. What "used motherboard" did you put in? mine does the same diagnostic tests. Try running the basics Check Disk, Defrag, and CCleaner (without the yahoo toolbar - uncheck that) you can download that here: http://www.piriform.com/

Let us know how things go. regards...

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[Bobc11]

I tried to to a repair install and i got IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x00000a why? This also happens when i try to boot the pc into windows before i tried this.

Greetings

I have three Dell's and if they come with a (nVIDIA Geforce 4200 Go 64MB) as your does? I pulled out 2 out of 3 video cards and replaced them with advice from a helper here. How to take it apart - I joined the Dell Support forum. got good help there! nVIDIA video cards & Dell don't play well. What "used motherboard" did you put in? mine does the same diagnostic tests. Try running the basics Check Disk, Defrag, and CCleaner (without the yahoo toolbar - uncheck that) you can download that here: http://www.piriform.com/

Let us know how things go. regards...

EDIT spelling

[Bobc11]

Also it always does chkdsk when ever i start up.

[yardbird]

Up in your 1st post, you said: "I bought a used motherboard" do you know anything about it? The good News I found out about the original Dell D800 is you can swap out the video card. Where as mine is soldered to the system board. Running the error thru the Dell Forums, Google, and MS help. gave me some info.

What video card is still in there? If you have a nVIDIA, you can go to there site and download the drivers, If you swapped it out and theres an, ATI in there you have to get out the original drivers. In regards to your error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL 0x00000a

I did find this out, The most common cause of this conflict is improperly installed drivers for a piece of hardware you recently installed.

First, disconnect or remove the hardware, and uninstall the drivers for it completely. If that fixes the blue screen, you can search for updated drivers or contact the manufacturer.

If you haven't installed any new drivers recently, you'll need to do some more detective work.

Start by examining the blue screen to see if it lists a specific driver. Looking at the blue screen, check the text at the very bottom of the screen. You'll probably see a file name.

This is the driver that caused the problem. If, for example, the driver in question is named nv4_disp.dll (an nVidia-related file), and you've recently switched from an Nvidia videocard to an ATI part, then it's reasonable to assume that either the old driver was not uninstalled correctly, or the new drivers weren't properly installed.

You're more like to experience this IRQL error when switching form one videocard brand to another, as the drivers will conflict with each other.

The safe way to swap videocards is to completely remove all remnants of your old videocard drivers using a utility called Driver Cleaner, or the freebie alternative Driver Sweeper. To begin the process, open up your Control Panel, select Add or Remove Programs in XP

highlight the videocard drivers, and click Uninstall. Reboot the computer, holding down the F8 key to enter safe mode. Run the Driver Cleaner utility to scrub away any remnants of the previous drivers that a typical uninstall overlooks. After you reboot, install the appropriate drivers for your new videocard.

I posted here a few weeks ago: http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=62455 and My error took my to bad RAM. I failed Memtest. on my Dell 2200 notebook.

My Dell 5150 LCD took a dump.

Is this your error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (0x0000000A

here's a link to look over or post: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums...37-af559a38bc00

Thats all the info I could get above in Hardware at the Dell Forum from the error you posted. You should sign in there

I have a link to the service manual for your notebook: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/syst...00/en/index.htm

If you can post the type mk. model of the motherboard? maybe someone else here has an idea