Upgraded Parallels 5: Blue screen on startup

[joergh]

Hi folks, I just upgraded to Destop for Mac V. 5 from V. 4.

V. 4 worked just fine. If I start my virtual machine (Windows XP) under V.5 the start-up process ends up with a blue screen with an "Bad IRQL" error message.

Attached you can find the message.

Is there a fix or something wrong with my configuration?

I have got a MacBook 2,2 GHz (2008) with 2 GB RAM.

Regards
Joerg

 

[Kim Hannemann]

Same here, and it's a HUGE PROBLEM for me

I've got the same Bad IRQL message, and a different but similar message when I try to start up in Safe Mode.

 

[Kim Hannemann]

this worked for me

http://kb.parallels.com/en/6873

 

[BradleyH]

Same problem

I just upgraded to Parallels 5, and I'm getting a blue screen with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. The VM (XP Pro SP3) worked fine under Parallels 4. An Ubuntu 9.10 VM works fine under Parallels 5 on the same machine.
I'm running a MacBook Pro 5,3 with 10.6.1, 2.8GHz processor and 512MB 9600M GT.

 

[BradleyH]

Nevermind

Found the solution: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=95522
Thanks all.