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Hey everybody!
I recently have been having a problem where if i try to watch a dvd on my laptop it will freeze and then give me a blue screen saying the system was caught in an infinite loop caused by the file "Ialmrnt5", one of my display drivers. This happens in windows media player and in intervideo windvd, with various dvds and persists on updating my dvd and display drivers. I tried system restore without effect and can think of nothing i've done which might cause this. I'm running a satellite pro a10, 2Ghz Intel celeron notebook on xp home with 1gig of RAM.
The display drivers are Intel 82252/82255 gm/gme. Any help or information would be appreciated! thanks!

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Brief follow-up: reported repeated BSODs during DVD playback on a Satellite Pro A10 that pointed to the driver file Ialmrnt5. suggested updating Intel drivers; then rolled back to an earlier display driver and the crashes stopped, and marked the thread solved. The notes below explain likely causes and give compact, practical steps to preserve a working configuration or diagnose similar failures.

Technical note: Ialmrnt5 is a kernel-mode Intel graphics driver for older mobile GM/GME chipsets. DVD playback commonly triggers video overlay and hardware-assisted MPEG-2 rendering; a buggy driver or an OEM-modified build can mishandle overlays, DMA or interrupt handling and end up in a kernel deadlock (BSOD). Rolling back to an older driver removes the offending code path and is a well-known fix for this class of failures.

Recommended diagnostic and recovery steps:

  • Archive the working driver and system state: record the driver version (Device Manager -> Display adapters -> Properties -> Driver tab), create a System Restore point, and copy the driver .sys from C:\Windows\System32\drivers and the matching .inf from C:\Windows\inf to an archive folder.

  • Prefer OEM packages: obtain display drivers and any BIOS updates from Toshiba for the Satellite Pro A10 when possible, since vendor builds are often tailored to the laptop firmware.

  • Isolate hardware acceleration: force the DVD player to use software decoding or disable Windows hardware acceleration (Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot -> move hardware acceleration to None) and retest; stability under software decoding implicates the display driver.

  • Collect crash evidence: enable small memory dumps (Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> Settings -> Write debugging info: Small memory dump) and inspect the dump with a debugger to confirm the failing module before trying newer drivers.

  • Avoid blind updates: keep the known-good driver archived and test any replacement in a controlled way.

Summary: the successful rollback reported by strongly points to a driver regression or OEM-driver mismatch. Preserving the working driver and capturing minidumps gives the best path to a safe future upgrade.

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Member Avatar for Rueful Rogue

I can't give you much help, but the "Ialmrnt5" is a display driver. The solution should be to download the latest Intel graphics driver. BUT ... I looked on the Intel website
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and could not find any information about the display drivers you listed 82252GM/82255GME. Either Intel does not support them because they are too old, or you have the numbers wrong.

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Hi,
You were right about the display driver. you're also probably right about the tech support. I can't even find satellite pro A10 on the website so i suppose i got what i deserved buying a cheap laptop through my university.
I rolled by display back to the very earliest ones i had and the problem went away. Thanks for the reply!

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Marking this thread solved. Glad you can now enjoy your DVDs :)

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