last few days i been getting IRQL_Less_or_equal blue screen errors while playing games (system intensive eg NOLF +sof2), every now and again i get the dreaded BSOD, reporting:
IRQL_Less_or_equal
The compo then bombs out and restarts before i have chance to catch the rest of the error code :'(
Im aware this is due to IRQ sharing conflicts, as this is an ACPI compo i disabled PNP OS in BIOS, and also updated Via 4 - in -1's and vid drivers for good measure...
However just playing SOF2 and guess what... IRQL_Less_or_equal (followed by much effing and blinding).
Ive been reading through the Via forums and this problem seems to be fairly regular yet hard to solev on VIA chips...
Memory Problem. Possibly your Memory Banks are all full or your Memory timings are set too high. This likelyhood tends to happen more frequently in AMD system than Intel esp with VIA Chipsets equipped motherboards.
Thats means im gonna have to lower my timings from turbo then? or alterbativley i have NO DELAY set for the ram - how about if i turn this back on?? which one is least likley to affect my system performance overall??
Disable power management in bios see how it works. Also might try backing down to default cpu either that or check for dust on cpu fan and in heatsink and maybe apply some fresh thermal compound.
--thats it. How do i go about changing the settings you have suggested??. I imagine i will have to change the computer from ACPI to Standard Computer under system device manager -- what next??
Anymore suggestions - i can look into this tomorrow but im really too busy with work at the mo to spend ages delving into this myself... any suggestions would be appreciated...
--Jakk
"You don't know Jakk..."
Windows Vista Business x64
Hiper 580Watt PSU -- Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L -- Intel Core2Quad 6600 -- 4GB PC6400 -- 256MB GeForce FX7800GT
SATA-II HDD 1x500Gb/1x400GB/1x250GB-- 1x120GB ATA-100 HDD[/B]
If you want to continue overclocking your AMD Athlon T-bird,
you *must* at least increase the processor voltage (Vcore)
to 1.85V. If the crashes still occur, you have *no choice* but to
lower the processor frequency in 50 mhz steps.
Unfortunately, even when I increased the Vcore to 1.85V,
the crash was still occuring. Because of the crashes continuing,
I had to lower the processor frequency from
1050 mhz to > 1000 mhz and it only required 1.80V.
The crashes went away after. The crashes were occuring when
running Need For Speed III Hot Pursuit, even when just letting it sit at the menu screen with car showing with the music playing.
Ive only raised the multiplier by 1x also i dunno not like 1ghz tbird i had up at 1.55... still i'll try FSB overclocking to see if i can get as high as poss before crashing..
Cheers
--Jakk
"You don't know Jakk..."
Windows Vista Business x64
Hiper 580Watt PSU -- Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L -- Intel Core2Quad 6600 -- 4GB PC6400 -- 256MB GeForce FX7800GT
SATA-II HDD 1x500Gb/1x400GB/1x250GB-- 1x120GB ATA-100 HDD[/B]
Had similar problem until i increased voltage on my RAM. Still happens if i increase bus a little too much, or timings of the RAM.
Only solution is to decrease timings, or bus speeds, or increase voltage.
good luck