BSOD screen IRQL LESS OR NOT EQUAL !!!!!

[Treebeard]

Okay my computer love to give me this message. It was happening just occasionally and it didnt bother me too much. I got my NEC 1300a dvd burner yesterday, plugged it in. Ripped, transcoded a movie. Now dont have any blank dvd's yet so i was going to have nero burn an image, everytime nero hit about 20% of the write the pc crashes with the message
"IRQL_LESS_OR_NOT_EQUAL" dont know what is causing this and I tried to burn an image 4 times with the same result. Kinda need to fix this before i get my blank dvd's and start burning. i havent found anything that helps out on the web and am going to do a restore pretty soon to try and fix it. but somebody give me a shout if you think you know the root cause.

[rallynavvie]

Wow, I haven't seen that one since Win2000
I thought XP was supposed to prevent IRQ conflicts. I had the same problem happen when I tried installing a SB Audigy card back before the current one. Did you install anything prior to seeing these occasional messages?

[Treebeard]

nope, didnt install anything new b/4 the messages started up. but for some reason they show up everytime i try to burn a dvd image.

[VCDHunter]

I'm getting this all the time now after about 5 mins of playing C & C Generals. Also happens with Urban Terror. I'm hoping its a graphics card drivers issue, but I'm not convinced. I'll be doing a clean install of Win2000 sometime soon and applying the latest drivers. Don't hold out much hope though.

[Craig Tucker]

I used to get this error along with page fault errors and numerous other errors I cant remember, and each time I rebooted scandisc would run and have to make a load of repairs to the filesystem. Turns out it was bad ram causing corruptions on my hard drive. Got rid of the ram formatted the drive reinstalled, not a single problem since.

[Treebeard]

UPDATE:

Stupid POS still crashing. restored my computer to original setup. now its crashing with the same error when nero is at about 80-85% done with the image. i hate computer parts sometimes.

guess I'll just move the dvd burner into my other computer and give it a go there, it will just run a little slower.

[Treebeard]

I have a theory, please verify or not.

maybe its crashing because the drive im burning the image too is the same drive the dvd files are coming from. could potentially cause this dont you think?

[makntraks]

I have a theory, please verify or not.

maybe its crashing because the drive im burning the image too is the same drive the dvd files are coming from. could potentially cause this dont you think?

If you've already ripped from YOUR original DVD and have to VOB's and structure on your HD, why try to create an .img file? The movie (or whatever) is readily playable using PowerDVD or some other PC based media player... When you do get your blanks just pop one in and use a tool to burn (since you already have transcoded)....

I'm wondering if I am making any sense though but I think I got your original message and hope my words help you out...

[Treebeard]

Well I have it working now,

Nero is just a unreliable resource hog it seems and does not manage my memory well ( even if it is cheap memory )

I now backup dvd w/ no probs going this route

rip w/ dvddecrypter,
clonedvd to iso file;
burn iso w/ dvddecrypter.

no crashes occur using this method and backups look great.