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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button and enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos of all the unpleasant surprises you can encounter while computing few are more jarring and the sudden blue screen of death and let's not kid ourselves that cute little frowny face they added in Windows 8 really doesn't help what's almost as frustrating is losing your work though is the fact that you get hardly any information about why your computer suddenly decided to stop working like Dennis on a Friday afternoon all you get is some mysterious error code thankfully tech quickie is here to save the day with a list of some of the most common blue screen error codes along with their meanings and some possible fixes starting with irq not less or equal as it turns out I RQ l stands for interrupt request level which usually means that a program tried to access a piece of memory that was being protected by the operating system for some sort of important task and since device drivers usually have to access these parts of memory since they interface with your operating system and the actual hardware this error typically indicates a driver issue so try updating or reinstalling any drivers that might be problematic of course this could also indicate a problem with the hardware itself perhaps a graphics card that's aggressively overclocked and by the way the related page Fault in non paged area can indicate a similar problem but those aren't the only messages that indicate a hardware error if you see data bus error it doesn't mean you have a broken Volkswagen parked in your driveway instead this probably means you have an issue with your memory so run a memory check utility like mem test 86 plus or try simply pulling out one of your RAM sticks and then swapping for the other one to see if one of them has died I mean or you can swap out both if you have extras on hand it's entirely possible that we are single-handedly causing the continuation of the global DRAM shortage so sorry about that this may well solve the problem and if it doesn't well it's likely that you have a driver or Hardware issue elsewhere in your system another memory be saw memory management can often be resolved by going into your BIOS and making sure that your RAM settings are correct this particular error can pop up if you've overclocked your RAM or if it's not getting the right amount of voltage on the subject of overclocking machine check exception is often caused by a CPU that is overclocked to the point of instability so try bumping it back to stock speed to see if the error goes away and then if you do choose to overclock again be a little bit more conservative please but then suppose your memory and your processor are fine and you get an error that says fat file system don't get out the exercise bike just yet any file system error whether it's fat or NTFS simply means that you've got some kind of a problem with your hard drive or SSD now this could simply be caused by a driver issue but there also might be a more serious physical issue with your disk so if you see this error backup anything important and run a disk check utility followed by a diagnostic utility like CTools from the manufacturer of your drive to ensure that it is safe to continue to use other kinds of discs problems can produce the inaccessible boot device blue screen that could be caused by a corrupt sector which can sometimes be fixed by running Windows startup repair or simply by choosing the wrong disc mode in your BIOS if it's set to IDE try changing it to AHCI and vice versa of course there are other errors that don't have super obvious causes such as system thread exception not handled if you see this common message or another error code that you don't recognize see if your blue screen of death gives you a file name that you can jot down before the PC reboots this can give you a clue as to what driver or program is misbehaving so that you can 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