STOP ERROR Woes

Dear All,

After a year of blood, money, sweat, money and tears to get my self-build pc
up and running, I am dogged by ANOTHER problem, this time one I cannot fix.

Basically, I am running a 500mhz Celeron w/old intel chipset 192mb old ram
and lots of pci cards tacked on. Windows XP Professional SP2, the usual
homepc software. Belkin USB wireless network stick. Part of a 3 PC wireless
Ad Hoc network on the USB stick with shared broadband.

It seems that when using my Belkin USB wireless network device, and
sometimes when not really using it, after a while I get a STOP ERROR screen
as follows:

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

STOP Ox000000D1 ... OxF58DOF37

PRISMAXP.sys - Address F58DOF37 is the affected file

(Also, some of my taskbar icons have stopped appearing next to the clock,
they only periodically appear when i log off and back on etc) (Also, my old
rubbish mainboard only recognises half of my RAM, but I figure this is due to
an old BIOS, and does not really cause problems - Its only recently that I
get the stop error, the bad mainboard has never been a problem before)

Anyway, many thanks for any help.

John Kenchington

John Kenchington wrote:

 > Dear All,
 >
 > After a year of blood, money, sweat, money and tears to get my self-build pc
 > up and running, I am dogged by ANOTHER problem, this time one I cannot fix.
 >
 > Basically, I am running a 500mhz Celeron w/old intel chipset 192mb old ram
 > and lots of pci cards tacked on. Windows XP Professional SP2, the usual
 > homepc software. Belkin USB wireless network stick. Part of a 3 PC wireless
 > Ad Hoc network on the USB stick with shared broadband.
 >
 > It seems that when using my Belkin USB wireless network device, and
 > sometimes when not really using it, after a while I get a STOP ERROR screen
 > as follows:
 >
 > DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
 >
 > STOP Ox000000D1 ... OxF58DOF37
 >
 > PRISMAXP.sys - Address F58DOF37 is the affected file
 >
 > (Also, some of my taskbar icons have stopped appearing next to the clock,
 > they only periodically appear when i log off and back on etc) (Also, my old
 > rubbish mainboard only recognises half of my RAM, but I figure this is due to
 > an old BIOS, and does not really cause problems - Its only recently that I
 > get the stop error, the bad mainboard has never been a problem before)
 >
 > Anyway, many thanks for any help.
 >
 > John Kenchington

See this link for info on that error:

<a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm" target="_blank">http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm</a>
0x000000D1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL