DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

[v3rrv3]

Started roughly five or so days ago on my computer specs as follows:
Asus A7V600-X
AMD Athlon 2500+
Abit Siluro TI4200
512 MB Crucial PC3200
WD 80GB HD
Offbrand Wireless NIC

Originally I was getting the error every 4-6 minutes, at that time my memory usage wasn't slowly climbing, swapped out memory and video card and still got the same error, had some other issues so I thought that a reformat might help, did that it got better, only got the error say every 40 minutes a couple times, now I get it as soon as it boots into windows. I can boot up in Safemode and it works for the time being, but any ideas? Power Supply Maybe? I don't have an immediete spare so I can't test that at the moment.

Thanks,
Kevin

 

[Kalmah]

I've had problems like that before that ended up being bad memory sticks.

You completely swapped the memory? (if you have 2 sticks, you swapped both instead of just 1?) I'm guessing you just have 1 512 mb stick and swapped it with another. Could both sticks be bad?

Run memtest86 on them maybe.

 

[v3rrv3]

Oh for the record I have Windows XP Pro.

Yeah, I have one 512 MB stick in right now, swapped it with another I had, and then another out of a buddies working PC and still same difference, I'll try memtest.

 

[v3rrv3]

Just got that and I don't have a floppy for the time being so I can't do that haha

Edit: I'll see if I can find my copy of Nero to make a bootable CD

 

[Kalmah]

How new is this system? Was the chipset drivers installed? I'm guessing the BIOS hasn't been flashed at all either since you don't have a floppy? I wouldn't worry about that now though. I'm more concerned with the chipset driver.

I'm just guessing here.

 

[v3rrv3]

Its kinda mix and match The motherboards only about 3 months old? I have yet to install the onboard drivers and such. I deleted some random stuff when I was in safe mode that was taking up random space, now my system boots into windows, and has been that way for like 30 minutes? Its really confusing but we'll see if I get a blue screen in a bit I guess.

 

[Kalmah]

I don't believe deleting random stuff is going to fix your problem. Actually I'm almost certain.

Goto the Asus website and find your board.. download everything for it and install. (well not everything.. just the latest version of everything.. Skip the BIOS updates for now)

 

[v3rrv3]

haha, I've heard some software issues can cause it and maybe I got lucky? But who knows, its still going strong and the drivers are on there way