Got a problem with "Driver IRQ equal or less than" in WinXP

[KennyH]

Hey guys, I left a few programs running (WinMX, and others downloaders) the past few days and cut my monitor off at night. When I woke up in the morning and turned it on I saw a nice BSOD and this error. This is on an Iwill XP333-R and a Netgear FA310-TX NIC. The NIC is not sharing any IRQ with another device, I made sure of that but I still end up with this error. Anyone know what my problem may be, suggestions? Please LMK and thanks in advance.

 

[NogginBoink]

It's not an IRQ. It's an IRQL. They're different beasts.

It means that a driver did something illegal. Many times the BSOD will identify the offending driver.

 

[wxjunkie]

I've had the same problem too, with Windows 2000 Pro, and from what I can tell the problem is with the National Semiconductor chipset used on many Netgear and Linksys NIC's. I don't what other NIC's use this chipset, but stay away from it. All driver patches I've tried have all failed to work.

If anyone has a good recommendation on a cheap NIC card that does NOT use the National Semiconductor chipset, it would be appreciated. I notice CompUSA has it's own inexpensive brand of NIC. But I do not know what kind of chipset it uses.

 

[mgpaulus]

I run 3Com 3C905/B/TX in all my machines, and I have gotten them off of eb*y, and haven't paid more than $20 for any single card. And haven't had any problems with them either..... (3com tends to be 1st tier on any OS)