HELP!! BSOD keeps happening

[bman]

I have an AMD K6-3 400 on an AX59Pro motherboard rev 1.51. 128 meg of Viking PC100 ram, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus, V770 Ultra. I keep getting a BSOD with something to do with IRQL_ something....I forget now, but I thought I'd better get this out before I'm dead again.
I checked VIA's web site and they only have patches for the bus master driver for NT, the IRQ patch is for 95/98 only. I thought that might help, but I guess not..any ideas?
Thanks

[CMonster]

Is this a new system or has it been up and running a while and just started giving problems?

Look for yellow exclaimation marks in the device manager and clear up any of those that you might find. Next you could try lowering your memory timing and hard disk PIO mode in BIOS. Then you might want to try a reinstall of Windows.

I have also noticed that a couple of my AMD chips do not seem to work well at 2.2v core at factory clock speed, and 2.3 eliminates these frequent errors.

BSOD could be many things - almost anything - corrupted software, CPU too hot, voltage too low, overclocked, marginal memory, marginal hard drive, poor connections - the list just doesn't end - I had a NIC that was going bad and I got BSODs for it all the time I replaced it with the same kind of NIC w/o even reloading the drivers and it works fine now. That should be a lesson for anyone not to plug a phone line into a NIC by mistake! /forum/smile.gif



[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 08-30-99).]