IQRL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

[dog_day_sunrise]

Morning all.

 

First post here- I have been running a home-built rig for gaming/photo-manipulation/daily usage for around a year now, spec as follows:

 

PSU- PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750W

Mobo- ASUS M4A79XTD Evo

Processor- AMD Phenom II x4 955BE

RAM- 4GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1333

GPU- Gainward GTX460 GS

HDD- 500gb/250gb 7200RPM Maxor HDDs

OS- Windows 7 Extreme Edition 64-bit.

 

Over the last month or tow, I started experiencing an increased number of system restarts and crashes, and having removed the Windows auto-restart function in order to identify them I realized I have been suffering from the IQRL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error.

 

Will post more information regarding the errors when I'm back from work and have access to the error logs- there is no pattern to them- sometimes the system will crash intermittently, sometimes it works fine, sometimes it will crash on restart or refuse to start up- whir away as if it was about to boot then never load.

 

Several times it has forced me into going through the system restore process (including blue-screening once during it) and a number of times it has required a disk check.

 

 

 

 

Any idea what could be causing it? My initial thought was a driver issue, but seen as it seems to happen on restart or outside of windows, I'm inclined to believe it might be PSU, RAM or Mobo related?

[BeeCeeBee]

Any idea what could be causing it? My initial thought was a driver issue

 

This is one of the most annoying messages that you can receive. It almost always relates to a hardware fault but that could be anything from a CPU heat problem to a fault in one of your RAM sticks. If it is a hardware fault it may not be a physical fault but a driver issue. There is a lot of trial and error involved. I would first check for overheating and then some trial and error tests with your RAM.

 

There are hardware experts here that know far more than I do and it may be a good idea to let them weigh in first.

[dog_day_sunrise]

This is one of the most annoying messages that you can receive. It almost always relates to a hardware fault but that could be anything from a CPU heat problem to a fault in one of your RAM sticks. If it is a hardware fault it may not be a physical fault but a driver issue. There is a lot of trial and error involved. I would first check for overheating and then some trial and error tests with your RAM.

 

There are hardware experts here that know far more than I do and it may be a good idea to let them weigh in first.

 

Thanks for the rapid response.

 

Cooling I doubt is an issue. CPU cooler is a truly gargantuan Core Contact Freezer that keeps load temperatures down to about 43 degrees C, the GPU is literally brand new and there are a pair of 12cm fans providing case airflow.

 

I'm going to swap the RAM over to the other two sockets and see if that has any effect. Will also post up a BSOD log and see if any more sense can be made of that.

[BeeCeeBee]

Cooling I doubt is an issue.

 

You are probably right unless the cooling issue is with the CPU and the heatsink paste. The fact that it is a home built machine simply brings this issue to mind without any evidence to support it.

[dog_day_sunrise]

You are probably right unless the cooling issue is with the CPU and the heatsink paste. The fact that it is a home built machine simply brings this issue to mind without any evidence to support it.

 

Could be I suppose. I do have some spare paste lucking around- though I'd rather not take my CPU cooler off unless it's a last resort- sheerly because the damn thing is so huge it's a monstrous pain to get back on.

[BeeCeeBee]

No problem, it is just one of several possible causes but do keep in mind that to much paste is just as bad as to little. Just think back a bit about what you did when you applied it.

[dog_day_sunrise]

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It won't be a CPU cooling problem - the system will just shutdown on a hardware trip, no BSOD's.

 

Try downloading and running Memtest to check your RAM.

 

Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool

[dog_day_sunrise]

Have swapped my RAM into black sockets (rather than blue) and have had a good few hours without issues.