Kyro 2 and the Blue Screen of Death!

[GGorilla]

Help!

I love my Hercules Prophet 4500, except for one big problem. When I play Counter-Strike (the only game I play), I will get the blue screen of death mid-play. Sometimes it shows up, sometimes it doesn't... it doesn't show up within the first hour of play btw.

My Bios Settings: AGP set to 2x, Fast Write is off, AGP ISA Aliasing is off, Super Bypass Mode is off, AGP Always Compensate is off, and Video BIOS Shadow is off. Everything else is default, nothing is overclocked.

I have all the latest drivers cleanly installed after formatting the hard drive, including the AMD AGP Miniport driver, the VIA Bus Master drivers, the Hercules Drivers (v 7.114), and the USB drivers that came on the CD with the mobo.

Has anyone else had these problems? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

My PC:
Epox 8k7a
1.2 GHz Athlon C
256MB Crucial PC2100
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 w/o TV
SB Live! Value
Toshiba DVD SD-M1502
Windows 2000 w/SP2
40GB IBM 60GXP Deskstar

P.S. My hard drive and DVD drive aren't SCSI devices, yet my Device Manager lists them as such. Is this normal?

 

[powervr2]

that is very strange you could try to get some help in some of the powervr forums

http://www.paraknowya.com/discus/
http://www.slackercentral.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=8~
http://www.voodoosource.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=10

 

[L8CS]

I'm not real familar with Win2000, but it sounds like a User Resources issue. I know that Win2000 apparently controls the User Resources issue better that Win98 but I've had the same thing happen in Win98 SE when in multi-player. I was also under the impression that BSOD were software related issues.

 

[GGorilla]

Alright, well I got the BSoD again and this time I wrote it down. Here it is word for word:

***STOP: 0x0000000A (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x804006F4)
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
***Address 804006F4 base at 80400000, DateStamp 3ad7ad60 -ntoskrnl.exe

Beginning dump of physical memory

 

[L8CS]

I researched this for about an hour at the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base but as I said earlier, I don't know anything about Win2k. If you haven't checked the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base for the "STOP: 0x0000000A" errors, hopefully this will help.

Here

Good Luck

 

[tomeh]

Have you checked this?

 

[Santhrax]

I have almost exactly the same setup, with no problems. I'll check the settings when i get home, but i'm pretty sure my only difference is that i'm running 4x AGP. I play cs like no other, and haven't experienced any problems.

Here's my setup
1.2 ghz athlon @ 1.4
Kyro II standard
w2k w/ sp2
30 gig 75 gxp
all latest drivers.

 

[GGorilla]

Santhrax and all,

You do have almost a near match with what I have. Could you do me a big favor and tell me how you installed everything? Maybe I didn't do something right. This is what I did, step by step:

1) Formatted the HD
2) Installed W2k Pro
3) Installed AMD AGP Miniport v 5.22 (on CD w/mobo)
4) Installed VIA Bus Master v 4.31 (on CD w/mobo)
5) Installed USB Filter Driver (on CD w/mobo)
6) Installed Norton Antivirus (on CD w/mobo)
7) Installed Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 Drivers v 7.114 (off net)
8) Installed SB Live! Value Drivers (on CD)
9) Installed Service Pack 2
10)Installed misc software (Counter-Strike, etc.)

And still I get errors... I uninstalled the VIA Bus Master drivers and the SB Live to see if that would fix things - it didn't. Do I need to reformat again?

 

[Daemon_UK]

<< Installed VIA Bus Master v 4.31 >>



Have you tried using the VIA 4 in 1's?

If thats what you are using, why don't you use 4.29. I am not sure if 4.31 is still in BETA.

Hope that helps.

 

[jbirney]

Are you running CS in D3D or OpenGL mode?

 

[PointlesS]

er...I'm not sure if you already did this...but did you close all the programs running in the background?

 

[Bestill]

Another question: What case and power supply do you have? The problems could be due to a lack of juice since you have a very high-end setup. If not, how's you cooling? If you say the problems do not show up until after about an hour of play, I'd make sure you aren't hitting any excessive temperatures for your cpu and video.

 

[L8CS]

I'm using the Via 4.32 drivers, they been out for a couple of weeks.

What's difference between the Amd AGP Miniport drivers and the Via 4n1 drivers? Don't they both have AGP drivers? If so, could they be conflicting with each other and that's why GGorilla getting the SCSI id for his DVD and hard drive?

 

[GGorilla]

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