*EDITED - new driver!*Really quick BSOD "IRQ more or less equal to....." then reboot. WTH?

[MichaelD]

*EDIT*
I went out to Creative's site and got a new driver (12/2001) for my XGamer soundcard. Installed it. After a few minutes of some popping coming thru the speakers when playing sounds, the popping stopped and it works fine.

I looped the 3DM2001 demo for about an hour, then played some RTCW for about 90 minutes. No BSOD. Maybe it was a driver thing...I know; I prolly not, but so far so good. Stupid SBLIVE! card....

Just wanted to update you guys. Thanks.



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Hi there. This has only happened once, but that's one time too many. I'm running a fresh install of W2K SP2 w/all the updates right off MS update page.

Last night, while playing RTCW I got a split second BSOD then a reboot. On the BSOD, I saw the message "IRQ more or less equal to....." or words darn close to that.

What would cause this? I'm running a GF3 with the 23.11 dets. My CPU temps are loooooooooow. So that ain't it. Before and after the reboot all was smoooooth at high res/max detail.

I'm slightly concerned about this. I mean, who wants to get booted out while fragging some Nazi's, right? Any ideas?

 

[MichaelD]

ttt

 

[RaiderJ]

I would get that same message when I was using the Game Theater XP, which at the time had horrible drivers. I doubt anything is wrong with your computer, but that there is probably some device with goofy drivers that is causing you the problem.

 

[MichaelD]

I'll bet it's the infamous SBLive! problem rearing it's ugly head. I didn't have any probs when this soundcard (SBLive XGamer) when it was in my Abit KT7R, but now that it's in my Shuttle KT266A mainboard it's acting up.

Hmm. I remember one of the fixes is to disable SB16 Emualtion or something like that in Device Mangler. I'll chck that out. Thanks for jarring my memory.

 

[dcdomain]

When that happened to me, my computer wouldn't boot for a day. Ran fine for another month, same problems and then it died. Bad mobo in mine. Hope that's not the case for you, but throwing it out there.

 

[MichaelD]

<< When that happened to me, my computer wouldn't boot for a day. Ran fine for another month, same problems and then it died. Bad mobo in mine. Hope that's not the case for you, but throwing it out there. >>



Oh sure, go ahead and scare the piss out of me! :Q J/K.

I doubt it's the board. I've run lots of benchmarks and had it up and running for about 5 hours at a time in the past few days and it's rock solid.

I thinking it's a SBLIve issue. I was wondering when that was going to catch up with me, as I used to be the only person here on AT that hadn't had the dreaded SBLive problem yet.

 

[Yossarian]

First check this out: Rebooting FAQ

Then get rid of 23.11, I think that driver was written by an Nvidia janitor and passed off as the real thing.

 

[SteelCityFan]

I get this sometimes too... I wrote down the exact error somewhere.. I think it was "IRQ_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL" or something like that. I did a google search on it and came back with a mountain of others having the same problems... and it also seemed that everyone had their own idea on how to solve them.

 

[Bozo Galora]

that is an excellent question, my friend.

 

[MichaelD]

Wow, thanks BozoGalora! That's good info. I wonder which one it is? Right now I have:


1. VisionTek GF3
2. SBLive XGamer
3. Kingston NIC

That's it. I've got W2K drivers (latest ones) for all of them. I've got "reserve IRQ for USB/AGP" enabled in the bios. Basically, Iv'e got this Shuttle mobo setup the exact same way I had my Abit mobo setup. AND I've got TWO less PCI cards in it! Aint' that a kicker?

I wonder if it's the slots I have them in? I know that PCI 1 shares w/AGP, so there's no card in PCI 1. I have my soundcard in PCI 3 and my NIC in PCI 6.

The NIC is made by Kingston. It's a basic 10/100 NIC. It works.

What do you guys think about moving the PCI cards around?

 

[BFG10K]

It's probably the Live card because IIRC it doesn't have proper ACPI support. You could try moving the cards around but I doubt it'll make any difference since ACPI loves to share IRQs regardless of where your devices are installed. You could also try updating your BIOS and your chipset drivers to the latest versions.

I'd just disable ACPI in the BIOS and reinstall Windows. That's what I did on my XP box and it got rid of all my IRQ sharing and I managed to get a bit more framerates in my games too.

 

[mchammer187]

i have that problem too when i run my FSB too high

warcraft 3 beta does that a lot too

i am gonna restall xp without ACPI in a week though

radeon 8500 w/ 6025
sb audigy
intel NIC 10/100 pro
hauppauge wintv radio

 

[MichaelD]

TTT for the edit in original post.