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Vista bug

AzN

AzN

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I leave my computer on 24/7. Every few days I would get this bug. Irq less than zero blue screen of death.

I searched the internet and it says something about 4gig memory bug but I only have 2 gigs. I did the patch and still same thing.

Anyone else getting this bug or know a solution for this problem?

 
I have seen this in Win2K and XP. Most of the times a driver takes a dump and this is the error that is produced.
 
Originally posted by: Genx87
I have seen this in Win2K and XP. Most of the times a driver takes a dump and this is the error that is produced.
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Though this is less likely now since most (if not all) drivers have been moved out of kernel space into user space. If a driver does crash, Vista will most often clean up the memory and restart the driver. Of course this doesn't always work as planned and could still crash the system.

The other option is a possible hardware problem, such as bad memory or even a bad sector on a harddrive. Bad memory can work fine most of the time and crash a system occasionally.
 
Though this is less likely now since most (if not all) drivers have been moved out of kernel space into user space. If a driver does crash, Vista will most often clean up the memory and restart the driver. Of course this doesn't always work as planned and could still crash the system.
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Only part of the drivers can be moved to userspace, the parts that register/handle IRQs, DMA, etc have to be run in kernel mode and the userspace portion has to communicate with the kernel mode portion some how so there's still a lot of ways for crash the kernel. Although Vista did recover pretty well when the nVidia driver crapped it self on me.

The other option is a possible hardware problem, such as bad memory or even a bad sector on a harddrive. Bad memory can work fine most of the time and crash a system occasionally.
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Bad memory can give you pretty much any STOP code but they usually aren't consistent and a dying disk usually gives you in page errors since the system can't page something in from disk.
 
Those IRQ level bluescreens are crashing drivers - for whatever reason. Bad RAM, buggy drivers, failing hardware are the top reasons.
 
Memory has been tested before with memtest all the way upto 1000mhz. Hard drive. Hmmm... How do I check if it's bad?

My system crashes every few days or so. That same "IRQ less than zero"

My system

E6300 @ 435 FSB default voltage = 3045mhz
Asus P5B
2 gigs 1 kington memory d9gmh 1 memory Gskill d9
Samsung SP2504c 250gig
Hitachi HDT722516DLA380 160gig
16x DVD burner
MSI 8600gts
D-Link Airplus G DWL-G510 wireless adapter
onboard sound and lan

Vista is installed on the Hitachi hard drive.
 
Originally posted by: Azn
Memory has been tested before with memtest all the way upto 1000mhz. Hard drive. Hmmm... How do I check if it's bad?

My system crashes every few days or so. That same "IRQ less than zero"

My system

E6300 @ 435 FSB default voltage = 3045mhz
Asus P5B
2 gigs 1 kington memory d9gmh 1 memory Gskill d9
Samsung SP2504c 250gig
Hitachi HDT722516DLA380 160gig
16x DVD burner
MSI 8600gts
D-Link Airplus G DWL-G510 wireless adapter
onboard sound and lan

Vista is installed on the Hitachi hard drive.
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I would check for updated drivers for that DLink card.

 
Originally posted by: loup garou
Originally posted by: Azn
Memory has been tested before with memtest all the way upto 1000mhz. Hard drive. Hmmm... How do I check if it's bad?

My system crashes every few days or so. That same "IRQ less than zero"

My system

E6300 @ 435 FSB default voltage = 3045mhz
Asus P5B
2 gigs 1 kington memory d9gmh 1 memory Gskill d9
Samsung SP2504c 250gig
Hitachi HDT722516DLA380 160gig
16x DVD burner
MSI 8600gts
D-Link Airplus G DWL-G510 wireless adapter
onboard sound and lan

Vista is installed on the Hitachi hard drive.
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I would check for updated drivers for that DLink card.
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updating and will check back in a few. Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: Azn
Originally posted by: loup garou
Originally posted by: Azn
Memory has been tested before with memtest all the way upto 1000mhz. Hard drive. Hmmm... How do I check if it's bad?

My system crashes every few days or so. That same "IRQ less than zero"

My system

E6300 @ 435 FSB default voltage = 3045mhz
Asus P5B
2 gigs 1 kington memory d9gmh 1 memory Gskill d9
Samsung SP2504c 250gig
Hitachi HDT722516DLA380 160gig
16x DVD burner
MSI 8600gts
D-Link Airplus G DWL-G510 wireless adapter
onboard sound and lan

Vista is installed on the Hitachi hard drive.
Click to expand...
I would check for updated drivers for that DLink card.
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updating and will check back in a few. Thanks.
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I just took a look and there are 2 revisions of the card. One seems to have Vista drivers and the other doesn't.
 
Do you run TV-out? I know some of the drivers are not that stable in Vista. Either they keep adding resource allocs or they crash intermittenly.
 
I don't use tv out. I won't know until if it gives me the blue screen again which could take days. 😛
 
Originally posted by: loup garou
Originally posted by: Azn
Originally posted by: loup garou
Originally posted by: Azn
Memory has been tested before with memtest all the way upto 1000mhz. Hard drive. Hmmm... How do I check if it's bad?

My system crashes every few days or so. That same "IRQ less than zero"

My system

E6300 @ 435 FSB default voltage = 3045mhz
Asus P5B
2 gigs 1 kington memory d9gmh 1 memory Gskill d9
Samsung SP2504c 250gig
Hitachi HDT722516DLA380 160gig
16x DVD burner
MSI 8600gts
D-Link Airplus G DWL-G510 wireless adapter
onboard sound and lan

Vista is installed on the Hitachi hard drive.
Click to expand...
I would check for updated drivers for that DLink card.
Click to expand...

updating and will check back in a few. Thanks.
Click to expand...

I just took a look and there are 2 revisions of the card. One seems to have Vista drivers and the other doesn't.
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Mines the later revision with vista drivers.
 
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="EventLog" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32768">6008</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-11-01T18:34:52.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>29213</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>MyPC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>2:32:50 PM</Data>
<Data>11/1/2007</Data>
<Data />
<Data />
<Data>171587</Data>
<Data />
<Data />
<Binary>D7070B00040001000E00200032008701D7070B000400010012002000320087013C0000003C000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
 
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