DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

[KavinCross]

@ Montag451

SP2 was built in to this disk of windows xp. It was installed and updated before anything else on a brand new hard drive. We pretty much followed that install path as well.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: KavinCross
Since I wont be able to get another card anytime reliably soon there may be some other ideas.

One thing I noticed before, when this post started. The origonal file was related to the sound card. I tried moving it to another slot and uninstaled and reinstaled new drivers and updated said drivers. Now the only thing its telling me is the display drivers in the BSOD. However it should be pointed out that the IRQL_less_than message isnt there. Does that info change anything? Could this be resolved in bios somehow?

Another question about the vid card. Its made by gainward using a nvidia gforce4 ti4600. The drivers on their site look old and when i reinstalled this current system i used Nvidia drivers from their site. Should I have installed the ones from the Manufacturer then upgraded with the ones on the nvidia site?

PS Im sensing a little prejudice against Nvidia here. =D Im not so sure I want to have an ATI card back in my machine. One of their older cars jacked up a system bad. Also this isnt the best economy right now for me to get a new 400+ dollar video card.

If he's checking your dumps for you it's not a guess. If nVidia drivers are looking like the culprit in the dump then there is either a problem with the drivers (which is often corrected in the latest versions) or there is a problem with the hardware that the drivers are running. I don't think he's suggesting you keep an ATI card in your system for good, but for troubleshooting you should definately: 1) Update the nVidia drivers and 2) If that doesn't immediately fix it, swap that card out. If the problem continues, you'll need to get him another memory dump, if the problem clears up you've found your problem.

To answer one of your questions: you should install the drivers directly from nvidia's site. It *shouldn't* be necessary to do any uninstallation of previous drivers or any wierdness like that. Just grab the latest from nVidia and install them. Ignore any drivers from gainward - that and the CD drivers are likely very old.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: KavinCross
Since I wont be able to get another card anytime reliably soon there may be some other ideas.

One thing I noticed before, when this post started. The origonal file was related to the sound card. I tried moving it to another slot and uninstaled and reinstaled new drivers and updated said drivers. Now the only thing its telling me is the display drivers in the BSOD. However it should be pointed out that the IRQL_less_than message isnt there. Does that info change anything? Could this be resolved in bios somehow?

Another question about the vid card. Its made by gainward using a nvidia gforce4 ti4600. The drivers on their site look old and when i reinstalled this current system i used Nvidia drivers from their site. Should I have installed the ones from the Manufacturer then upgraded with the ones on the nvidia site?

PS Im sensing a little prejudice against Nvidia here. =D Im not so sure I want to have an ATI card back in my machine. One of their older cars jacked up a system bad. Also this isnt the best economy right now for me to get a new 400+ dollar video card.

If there are new crashes, send me the new dumps in c:\windows\minidumps.

I have absolutely no prejudice against nVidia. I own a 4200 and a 5200, and a GF2Go 5200 in a Mac. I am calling it like I see it - the dumps point to a problem in the nVidia driver. The reason I suggest trying another vendor's card is because you'll no longer be using the nVidia driver, hence that problem will go away.

 

[KavinCross]

Ill keep on it and hopefully this problem will be a fixable one.

 

[Smilin]

good luck.

 

[Zackybong1]

I'm having a very similar problem. When using MSTS Flightsim or Trainsim or even so other games, BSOD and DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I also get the D1 code and have to reboot. Sometimes after 2 minutes of game play, sometimes after 15 minutes. I have all the latest drivers for my nVidea (sorry!) GeForce 6600 PCI card, on a Pentium 4 HT 550 3.4 GHz, with 512 DDR memory.

As my set up is still under warranty, I have changed the memory card AND video card, but to no avail.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Zackybong1
I'm having a very similar problem. When using MSTS Flightsim or Trainsim or even so other games, BSOD and DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I also get the D1 code and have to reboot. Sometimes after 2 minutes of game play, sometimes after 15 minutes. I have all the latest drivers for my nVidea (sorry!) GeForce 6600 PCI card, on a Pentium 4 HT 550 3.4 GHz, with 512 DDR memory.

As my set up is still under warranty, I have changed the memory card AND video card, but to no avail.

Let's do the same steps then - get all driver and Windows updates, reboot. If problems continue, run MPS Reports (see my .sig) and send me the resulting computername.cab file - and also send me the minidumps created AFTER you did the driver updates, found in c:\windows\minidumps.

 

[ViperXX]

Couple months back I was having this problem. For me it was the Linksys drivers for my wireless PCMCIA card. I download a newer version from Linksys installed them and I haven't expirenced the problem again.

 

[dclive]

Fern:

Your C-Media audio drivers are causing the crash. Either replace those drivers with new drivers from the site, or else disable (in BIOS) your audio, and that should resolve the crashing. Let us know.

 

[Zackybong1]

Thanks. I'll get on to it ASAP.

 

[KavinCross]

I sent you the latest minidumps.

 

[ferretgruff]

dont mean to be rude and jump in on your thread, but i have a similar problem... been getting the errors for a few months, always without a driver listed. figured it was a driver problem so i formatted my harddrive (i needed to do this anyway, just hadnt got round to it) and all seemed to be going well for a few days... but i got another crash again tonight.

ive read this thread and it sounds like you could help me. ive downloaded and run mps reports and located the files generated. perhaps i could email them to you too? or you could explain to me how i would find the problematic driver in the output (assuming of course that its straightforward...) - whichever is easier for you. would appreciate any help you can give me...

 

[dclive]

Kemster - yes, same problem with EMU drivers (sound card drivers).

 

[cubby1223]

I was seeing that error on a machine not too long ago, but wasn't any hardware or driver, I could attach the harddrive as a slave, so not even booting from or anything, and the instant Windows went out to look at the harddrive I got the bsod (during boot after the ide drivers were loaded). Only resolution was to format the drive.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
I was seeing that error on a machine not too long ago, but wasn't any hardware or driver, I could attach the harddrive as a slave, so not even booting from or anything, and the instant Windows went out to look at the harddrive I got the bsod (during boot after the ide drivers were loaded). Only resolution was to format the drive.

That suggests a driver issue (after all the hardware didn't change...) so next time, post here and perhaps someone can take a look at the minidump and tell you what's wrong.

 

[nullimit]

I'm also having this DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Blue screens. I'm running Win2k with SP4, fully updated drivers. (sorry for bumping this old thread)