i am having system with this config:
intel p4, 128mb RAM(newly bought), samsung 40gb HD, maxtor 20GB HD(master), samsung cd writer, liteon SOHW 1673S DVD/CD writer(master),
i have 3 OSes winxp home wdition, win xp pro, SUSElinux.
till three days days back all was well. then suddenly one day when i booted into my XP home. before i got to the login screen... i blue screen of death came up with this meassage:"Driver_IRQL _Not_Less_Or_Equal". when i restarted it did not show any error and booted normally.
this has been occuring randomly ever since. the error messages have also been random. which include:"problem with file atapi.sys", "attemp was made to write into read-only memory" or "Driver_IRQL _Not_Less_Or_Equal"
so i tried booting into XP pro. in that also it crashed with a BSoD first time
and after two three attemps it booted. this made me for sure that the problem was hardware side.
next i booted into suse linux. soon as it booted it showed a message that a new hardware is detected "Liteon DVD SOHW 1673S" should i configure it? i clicked "yes". but then the linux got hung up. forcing me to switch off the sys.
thus i concluded that the problem is wit my Liteon DVD writer.
Liteon DVD writer had functioned properly with SUSE for past 3 months. it had never before given such a problem.
It is also to be noted that a couple of weeks back i had changed my liteon to master and samsung to be slave. earlier it was vice-versa.at tht time there was no problem.
personally i feel.. maybe its cable is having a problem.. or maybe i must make it slave as before.. or i may need to upgrade the firmware( but am against flashing i dont want to risk it)..
please help me out.. wht exactly is the problem? and wht is its solution?
intel p4, 128mb RAM(newly bought), samsung 40gb HD, maxtor 20GB HD(master), samsung cd writer, liteon SOHW 1673S DVD/CD writer(master),
i have 3 OSes winxp home wdition, win xp pro, SUSElinux.
till three days days back all was well. then suddenly one day when i booted into my XP home. before i got to the login screen... i blue screen of death came up with this meassage:"Driver_IRQL _Not_Less_Or_Equal". when i restarted it did not show any error and booted normally.
this has been occuring randomly ever since. the error messages have also been random. which include:"problem with file atapi.sys", "attemp was made to write into read-only memory" or "Driver_IRQL _Not_Less_Or_Equal"
so i tried booting into XP pro. in that also it crashed with a BSoD first time
and after two three attemps it booted. this made me for sure that the problem was hardware side.
next i booted into suse linux. soon as it booted it showed a message that a new hardware is detected "Liteon DVD SOHW 1673S" should i configure it? i clicked "yes". but then the linux got hung up. forcing me to switch off the sys.
thus i concluded that the problem is wit my Liteon DVD writer.
Liteon DVD writer had functioned properly with SUSE for past 3 months. it had never before given such a problem.
It is also to be noted that a couple of weeks back i had changed my liteon to master and samsung to be slave. earlier it was vice-versa.at tht time there was no problem.
personally i feel.. maybe its cable is having a problem.. or maybe i must make it slave as before.. or i may need to upgrade the firmware( but am against flashing i dont want to risk it)..
please help me out.. wht exactly is the problem? and wht is its solution?
