Bootup Error Message from Windows

[flurp]

Hi. I keep getting severl Windows error messages on bootup. I'm also experiencing some crashes while playing City of Heroes that bring up a BSOD. The message there isn't ever up long enough for me to read anything but it's an IRQ_notequalto_orless type of thing.

When I click on the "more help" link it goes to a windows support page that suggests I have a driver problem. I have the most recent drivers from Nvidia and Creative, so I don't know quite what to do next. I know that the Nvidia drivers prompted Windows to give me a "not whql certified" message when I loaded them but there are tons of people using those drivers so I'm not sure that's the problem.

Any help would be *most* appreciated. I'm a computer idiot.

Here are the popup errors from Windows on bootup


Error 1

BCCode : a BCP1 : D7C4AEBC BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000001
BCP4 : 804FA185 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 256_1

C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini092704-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\home\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER1.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml


Error 2

BCCode : a BCP1 : D7C4AEB0 BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000001
BCP4 : 804FA185 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 256_1

C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini092804-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\home\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER2.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml


Error 3

BCCode : a BCP1 : D7C4AEBC BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000001
BCP4 : 804FA185 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 256_1

C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini092804-02.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\home\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER3.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml


Error 4

BCCode : a BCP1 : D7C4AEBC BCP2 : 00000002 BCP3 : 00000001
BCP4 : 804FA185 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 256_1

C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini093004-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\home\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER4.tmp.dir00\sysdata


Here's my machine

AMD64 3400+
Abit KV8-Pro (v. 1.1) - 1.6 bios - via 4.53
Cooler Master Praetorian Case,
NEC 8X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive
Alps Silver 3.5inch Floppy Disk Drive
SAMSUNG 120GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive,
Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, 1GB(512X2) PC-3200
Antec NeoPower 480 watt 120mm fan ATX 12V v2.0
AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 512k L2 Cache,
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS
PNY 6800 GT 256 MB DDR3


Here are the drivers according to Device Manager

Windows XP Pro SP1
PNY Nvidia 6800GT (Driver 6.1.7.7)

NEC DVD R/W ND2510A (Driver 5.1.2535.0)

Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS Gamer (Driver 5.12.1.444)

Microsoft Explorer 4.0 Mouse (Driver 5.1.2600.0) These are plug & play drivers

Samsung SP1213C SCSI Disk Device (Driver 5.1.2600.0) This is actually my SATA HD

Via Serial ATA Raid Controller (Driver 5.1.2600.210)

Alps Floppy Drive (Driver 5.1.2600.0)

Standard 101/102 Keyboard (Logitech) (Driver 5.1.2600.1106

Via Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (KV8-Pro onboard) (Driver 1.29.0.87)

AMD Athlon 3400+ Newcastle (Driver 5.1.2535.0)

Dell D1626HT (Driver 5.1.2001.0)

1384 Net Adapter (Driver 5.1.2535.0) - I have no idea what this is or why Windows installed it.

 

[flurp]

Well, I guess for once I was happy to get a BSOD.

Here's the irq error message

0XD7C4AEBC, 0X0000000Z, 0X00000001, 0X804FA185

There wasn't any other part of the message on the screen so I'm hoping the device driver causing the problem is somewhere in that mess.

Thanks for the help!

 

[flurp]

Here's the full error

STOP: 0000000A (0XD7C4AEB0, 0X00000002, 0X00000001, 0X804FA185)

Today I blew away my video drivers with Detonator R.I.P. and went back to 6.1.7.6 which are the WHQL certified drivers from PNY (my card manufactuer). Obviously that hasn't fixed the problem.

I checked the event viewer and found an error entry that happened during my bootup.

Error code 0000000a, parameter1 d7c4aebc, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 804fa185.

So, it's narrowed down now I guess. If only I could find out what all of that *means*.

 

[Somniferum]

Try this: Go to Device Manager and in the View menu, select "Resources by Type". Expand the "Interrupt Request (IRQ)" section and check to see if any IRQs are conflicting (multiple devices using the same IRQ). If so, it may help to change them so they don't overlap.

 

[flurp]

nothing shares an IRQ except the following.

(PCI) 21 Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
(PCI) 21 Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
(PCI) 21 Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
(PCI) 21 Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
(PCI) 21 Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller

I had some trouble with both the USB controller and the LAN controller when I installed Windows.

I had to use the Via all-in-ones to search for the drivers.

I have no idea why the same thing would be in there so many times.

 

[Somniferum]

You could try disabling all but one of those. You should back up your data before trying this, though. You could wind up hosing your windows installation.

If that doesn't work, you could try disabling all of them, rebooting, and reinstalling the drivers. Again, back up your data first -- this could result in a hosed installation.

 

[flurp]

Ok. Thanks.

I just got a new error that is completely different.

I was just doing some surfing and tried to close a window.

I got this

ieexplore.exe - Application Error

The instruction at "0x1001d002" referenced memory at "0x00000004". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate this program.

clicked it and then got this immediately.

The instruction at "0x77f57bd2: referenced memory at "0x00ee0010". The memory could not be "read".
Click on OK to terminate this program.

Could this all be a RAM issue? I have brand new, Corsair Extreme memory. I did a single pass on Memtest a week ago and it was fine.

I'll set it up to run all night and see what happens.

 

[flurp]

20 passes on memtest and no errors so I'm pretty sure it's not memory.