Laptop Blue-Screen and Failures

[kenney001]

I have a laptop, a GateWay MX6920, that is having problems.

the specs:
-Intel Centrino duo 2.0 GHZ processor
-1 gb RAM
-120GB WD HDD
-DVD dual-layer burner

the problems:
-Worked great, until one day it randomly decides to freeze, blue screen with an "IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL" message
-failed to start. I pushed power, fans spun up and lights came on, but monitor stayed dark and it just iddled like that
-repeats above at random every couple of uses. I can be watching a movie and it will lock up toward the end, and shut down. Its very random.

What i've tried:
-removing battary/power
-removing HDD
-removing/switching RAM

I can sometimes get 2 stable hours out of it, sometimes 5 minutes, and sometimes it just wont start up.

I have gotten 2 differnt blue screens: The one mentioned above, and one that doesnt give an error, but looks like its dumping something to a file and shuts the Pc down automatically after displayed for about 3 seconds.

What is this?

[beele]

Try to restore to factory defaults and see if thats of any help. (try to save your data first)

[Masterz1337]

You're video card is overheating. Open the system up and make sure you clean everything inside. Then hope that the heat hasn't permantly damaged the vid cards ram.

[kenney001]

You're video card is overheating. Open the system up and make sure you clean everything inside. Then hope that the heat hasn't permantly damaged the vid cards ram.

HA video card.......the stupid intel 945G intigrated POS. Thats probably not the case though...

I think something is loose, because sometimes When I hit the power button, the fans spin and the lights turn on, but it doesnt "turn on", and if I tap the bottom of the laptop in the middle and try again, it works.

[klange]

Intel? Definitely not the graphics card's fault, they may suck but they never overheat (because they don't do anything...). Something has too high of an interrupt request level, though, that's obvious. Could be any piece of hardware, though.

[Varmint260]

I had this happen on my HP laptop last month; my problem was that I had installed the wrong drivers for my integrated audio chipset. How I fixed it was that I pressed F8 when starting it up, and it gave me an option to choose which OS I wanted to boot up in and whether to run a tool that would diagnose my problem. In this case, the tool uninstalled my audio drivers, then I restarted in normal mode, and reinstalled the correct audio drivers. That's what I did when I got the "IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL" message. I'm not sure about the other blue screen.

Anyways, not sure if this is your problem, but if it is, hope I helped!

[kenney001]

I had this happen on my HP laptop last month; my problem was that I had installed the wrong drivers for my integrated audio chipset. How I fixed it was that I pressed F8 when starting it up, and it gave me an option to choose which OS I wanted to boot up in and whether to run a tool that would diagnose my problem. In this case, the tool uninstalled my audio drivers, then I restarted in normal mode, and reinstalled the correct audio drivers. That's what I did when I got the "IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL" message. I'm not sure about the other blue screen.

Anyways, not sure if this is your problem, but if it is, hope I helped!

but see i cant even get it to the boot menu. It sits with the fan on and lights on, but does not "start"