Help with Blue Screen of Death

[beansbaxter]

I am trying to install XP Pro and cannot get through the install without getting a BSOD. The error message is IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and I cannot figure out how to resolve it.

My main machine at home here is rock solid, so I swapped parts out of it to determine which piece of hardware may be the problem. I would swap the part, and reinstall Windows, and keep doing this until I could find which hardware device is the conflict.

The BIOS is using the current 1012 off of Asus's website. I have tried swapping the power supply, memory, and video card - but the BSOD keeps coming up.

What do I do now? I need to get this machine up and going. Please advise.

System specs this is on:

Windows XP Pro SP2

Asus K8V-X Mobo
AMD Sempron 3000 Proc
Corsair 512MB DDR400 Mem
Antec 400-Watt Power

 

[imported_Rampage]

you need to unplug everything... EVERYTHING

take out all your ram besides one stick ect.. if you have 1 stick you need to boot into memtest86 and run that

use the bios safe default settings (non optimized)

when i used to get that problem back in teh day (2001), it was the VIA chipsets i was using for my motherboard.

i dont know if thats a VIA motherboard.. but get rid of the POS if it is and get yourself an Nforce.

its worth the $50-80 it will cost you to swap out and fix alot of issues

if you dont want to believe me, thats your perogative. but looking at your system specs, i can guarantee if thats a VIA board.. thats what you need to swap out to fix this. its not interacting with a GOOD piece of hardware properly.





edit to add

btw now that you sparked my memory, i remember running memtest86 on my old via boards and it was coming up with memory errors ect

the ram was fine.
i moved to an nforce2 and all was well, ram tested fine

 

[beansbaxter]

Well, I'll try that. I have a brand new Epox mobo sitting here from my Newegg order and it has an nForce3 chipset. Ugggg I need this to work.

 

[beansbaxter]

Thank you so much! That worked. I installed a new Epox 8KDA3I which utilizes an nForce chipset, and Windows and the machine works perfect.

Thanks again...I think I am done with Via chipsets. I had such good luck with them back in the Socket A days (sigh).

 

[imported_Rampage]

🙂

Glad to help. I just saw no replies so I decided to click on your thread.
I don't use anything but Nvidia or Intel chipsets. I've experienced many more oddities than the IRQ error, and on many different VIA chipsets/brands.

IIRC, there are ways to reduce the IRQ error from happening when using VIA chipsets affected by it (whatever the conditions are).
Disabling APIC would have reduced the error, but not completely fixed it.

One thing I remember reading on this topic is that VIA has a flawed APIC implementation, or one not up to standards.
Thats pretty typical of VIA engineering, while I can't verify that claim.. I dont doubt its validity at the same time.

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