Okay, I got my new parts on Saturday...it is now Wednesday. I have had 5 days to work on this, and I am absolutely dumbfounded. Listed below are system specs.
Antec 1030SX w/400W PS
Abit KG7-RAID with KG768.bin BIOS
AMD T-Bird 1.33GHz CPU
Alpha PAL8045 w/8k Delta Fan
512MB PC2400 CAS2 OCZ DDR
Gainward Geforce2 Ti 450 64MB DDR
SB Audigy Gamer
Linksys LNE100TX NIC
2 Maxtor 40GB ATA100's in RAID 0 config
2 GlobalWin I-Storm HD coolers
CardCoolerXT
WinXP Professional
Intellimouse Explorer
Klipsch Pro Media 5.1's
Okay, now that you know what's in my box, someone tell me how to get it running. The problem is that I get is once inside of Windows (it does boot just fine, every damn time) it only takes a couple of minutes before I get a lockup, or a BSOD. The BSOD's list the following errors, with no apparent pattern:
IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
NV4_DISP.DLL has caused an error
NV4 has caused an error.
Based on the first error message that I was getting about the IRQ's, I decided that I would check and see how my IRQ's were doing. Just as I had suspected, my USB, Firewire, Soundcard, RAID controller, Video card, and NIC were all on IRQ 3. I screwed around with BIOS for a while, and removed all card except the video. This did not fix the problem, although as far as IRQ's went, the only things sharing one were my two USB adapters, both on IRQ 13, which I assume is just fine. Remapping the IRQ's has gotten rid of the IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error message. Now, when I go to run a program like 3DMark2001se, it simply crashes to the desktop, locks the system in a display of whatever is on the screen at the moment, or returns one of the other BSOD's. I do not understand what PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA means. If anyone knows, please fill me in. I have also tried my system in CounterStrike. I get at the most 1 minute of gameplay before it locks up. Sometimes it crashes Half-Life, and sometimes it gives a BSOD, or locks with the game content still on the screen.
I have tried the following drivers for my system:
AMD Driverpack 1.20 (AMD 761 chipset drivers)
AMD Driverpack 1.30
SB Audigy retail CD with newest updates from Creative
Gainward Retail video drivers
Nvidia Det XP 27.42
Nvidia Det XP 27.30
Nvidia Det XP 27.10
Via Service Packs 4.29, 4.32, 4.35, 4.37
Via USB Filter Driver 1.08
I have even done what someone suggested on the installation of the VIA Service packs, and enabled Win2000 compatibility mode so that you can choose to not install the VIA AGP driver so that I does not install over the correct AMD AGP driver. This proved to do nothing for my system. I have also gone into BIOS and changed the AGP driving control setting from Auto to EA and DA. I have had no better luck with those settings. Please note that all RAM timings are set to NORMAL, CAS 2.5. AGP aperature has been set from 32MB all the way to 256, in 4X and 2X mode. Processor is running stock speed, and I have even cranked up voltages on CPU, I/O, and RAM. I have had no better success with anything that I try and change. Just for fun last night I tried swapping my Gainward GF2 Ti with my old Hercules 3D Prohphet IIMX. The system refused to boot into Windows, locking up when the barely visible XP logo comes on screen. Please let me know if I am missing something, otherwise I think I might go nuts. Everything on the board other than this seems to work fine. I plan to flash the BIOS to the 5e and 5W versions later today to see if that may fix it, as some people have reported instabilities with Geforce cards under the newer BIOS. Any other ideas, please give a reply, as at this point I am about at my wits end.
Thanks
:disgust:
Antec 1030SX w/400W PS
Abit KG7-RAID with KG768.bin BIOS
AMD T-Bird 1.33GHz CPU
Alpha PAL8045 w/8k Delta Fan
512MB PC2400 CAS2 OCZ DDR
Gainward Geforce2 Ti 450 64MB DDR
SB Audigy Gamer
Linksys LNE100TX NIC
2 Maxtor 40GB ATA100's in RAID 0 config
2 GlobalWin I-Storm HD coolers
CardCoolerXT
WinXP Professional
Intellimouse Explorer
Klipsch Pro Media 5.1's
Okay, now that you know what's in my box, someone tell me how to get it running. The problem is that I get is once inside of Windows (it does boot just fine, every damn time) it only takes a couple of minutes before I get a lockup, or a BSOD. The BSOD's list the following errors, with no apparent pattern:
IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
NV4_DISP.DLL has caused an error
NV4 has caused an error.
Based on the first error message that I was getting about the IRQ's, I decided that I would check and see how my IRQ's were doing. Just as I had suspected, my USB, Firewire, Soundcard, RAID controller, Video card, and NIC were all on IRQ 3. I screwed around with BIOS for a while, and removed all card except the video. This did not fix the problem, although as far as IRQ's went, the only things sharing one were my two USB adapters, both on IRQ 13, which I assume is just fine. Remapping the IRQ's has gotten rid of the IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error message. Now, when I go to run a program like 3DMark2001se, it simply crashes to the desktop, locks the system in a display of whatever is on the screen at the moment, or returns one of the other BSOD's. I do not understand what PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA means. If anyone knows, please fill me in. I have also tried my system in CounterStrike. I get at the most 1 minute of gameplay before it locks up. Sometimes it crashes Half-Life, and sometimes it gives a BSOD, or locks with the game content still on the screen.
I have tried the following drivers for my system:
AMD Driverpack 1.20 (AMD 761 chipset drivers)
AMD Driverpack 1.30
SB Audigy retail CD with newest updates from Creative
Gainward Retail video drivers
Nvidia Det XP 27.42
Nvidia Det XP 27.30
Nvidia Det XP 27.10
Via Service Packs 4.29, 4.32, 4.35, 4.37
Via USB Filter Driver 1.08
I have even done what someone suggested on the installation of the VIA Service packs, and enabled Win2000 compatibility mode so that you can choose to not install the VIA AGP driver so that I does not install over the correct AMD AGP driver. This proved to do nothing for my system. I have also gone into BIOS and changed the AGP driving control setting from Auto to EA and DA. I have had no better luck with those settings. Please note that all RAM timings are set to NORMAL, CAS 2.5. AGP aperature has been set from 32MB all the way to 256, in 4X and 2X mode. Processor is running stock speed, and I have even cranked up voltages on CPU, I/O, and RAM. I have had no better success with anything that I try and change. Just for fun last night I tried swapping my Gainward GF2 Ti with my old Hercules 3D Prohphet IIMX. The system refused to boot into Windows, locking up when the barely visible XP logo comes on screen. Please let me know if I am missing something, otherwise I think I might go nuts. Everything on the board other than this seems to work fine. I plan to flash the BIOS to the 5e and 5W versions later today to see if that may fix it, as some people have reported instabilities with Geforce cards under the newer BIOS. Any other ideas, please give a reply, as at this point I am about at my wits end.
Thanks
:disgust:
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