Hmm... a change of hardware seemed to have solved my Win2K BSOD woes...

[Adrian Tung]

I always had this problem in which after my system gets out of Stand By mode, running any DirectX game or app, or even just opening the SB Live's Surround Mixer, will cause an DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD. Since it happened with both my old Live card and my newer Live 5.1 card, I have always assumed that it was crappy Liveware drivers that were at fault.

Just this weekend I swapped my old Compex NIC in favour of the faster D-Link card which was happily residing on my 2nd PC and my BSODs are all gone! Hooray! The only sad part is now my 2nd PC is suffering from the ills brought by the Compex card... it's on Win98SE and now cannot shut down or restart anymore.

Oh well... at least it's not my primary PC that's having any problems anymore so I'm happy with it. Perhaps someday I'll go and grab another NIC and give the old card the boot.


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[WoundedWallet]

I'm glad for you.

I have something similar going on.... I just installed a Promise controller, and because my cables weren't long enough I had to move my cards around.

I got to a configuration where I couldn't boot on W2k. So I moved things around again and now I can boot in W2k but not dual boot in W98.

I haven't had the patience to go back and do some more switching, but I look forward to the day when I can have a post similar to yours.