The Grim Reaper
23-12-2007, 04:19 AM
I'm trying to sort out a Compaq v3209au laptop which came with home basic, and has been working for 8 months fine.
It was having driver problems recently with almost everything so we decided to recovery install it back to factory settings. (we did this when we bought it also in the shop)
However when it finishes and it says starting windows for the first time, shortly after it bsods with
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x833D9000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x83669F92)
*** bcmwl6.sys - Address 83669F92 base at 8362C000, DateStamp 4558a1d4
bcmwl6.sys is the broadcom driver for wifi. Wifi was one of the things causing issues before the reinstall, the adapter would just randomly disappear out of network connections, and by chance you'd get it when you boot up.
This is after putting it back to factory state, 3 times.
So ive loaded XP pro on it, and everythings working fine, including the wireless. However its not mine, and they want vista on it.
I went through boring HP tech support, and as soon as i gave the bsod info they said it would have to be sent in to a service centre.
So, is this a hardware problem, is the factory reset image stuffed or is vista generally broken?
I'm also hoping since i kept the repair partition intact that i can use a little hack to get it to fix the MBR to boot off that again when we send it back.
It was having driver problems recently with almost everything so we decided to recovery install it back to factory settings. (we did this when we bought it also in the shop)
However when it finishes and it says starting windows for the first time, shortly after it bsods with
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x833D9000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x83669F92)
*** bcmwl6.sys - Address 83669F92 base at 8362C000, DateStamp 4558a1d4
bcmwl6.sys is the broadcom driver for wifi. Wifi was one of the things causing issues before the reinstall, the adapter would just randomly disappear out of network connections, and by chance you'd get it when you boot up.
This is after putting it back to factory state, 3 times.
So ive loaded XP pro on it, and everythings working fine, including the wireless. However its not mine, and they want vista on it.
I went through boring HP tech support, and as soon as i gave the bsod info they said it would have to be sent in to a service centre.
So, is this a hardware problem, is the factory reset image stuffed or is vista generally broken?
I'm also hoping since i kept the repair partition intact that i can use a little hack to get it to fix the MBR to boot off that again when we send it back.