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    IRQL_Less_or_equal - BLUESCREEN!!! AH!!

    Hi all,

    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...

    Any ideas guys?? Here are the vital statistics...

    Win 2kpro
    1.33ghz tbird @ 1.46ghz
    Abit kt7a raid (KT133 based chip)
    Sblaster PCI 512
    Gf4 ti4200
    512mb SDRAM CL2 (CRUCIAL)

    --Cheers

    --Jakk

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    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.
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    BLECH!!

    ****

    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??

    --Jakk

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    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.

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    CPU install was new a month back -- dust-- well yeah - i'll look into that , power managment is always off...

    Cheers - ill have a fiddle --

    --Jakk

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    I found this article. dunno if it will help or not:

    http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q165863

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    Cheers Midknyte -- the problem has yet to occur since making the forst post -- but if it comes back - youve left me plenty to work through

    --Jakk

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    F**K!!!!

    --Guess what just happened

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    Hmmmn -- NOPE!

    find attached a listing of my IRQ's:



    As for seetting is soundcard irq to reserved and assign agp it's own irq, is this done through the BIOS??

    --Ive never really ran into IRQ problems before

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    The only options i have in the BIOS are:

    PNP OS on/off
    Assign USB IRQ
    Assign VGA IRQ

    --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??

    --Jakk

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    How does thsi look then??

    All i did was set the PC to standard PC under Device manager instead of ACPI, reinstalled some drivers as prompted on boot up and - voila!

    Only thing im concerned about is USB and sound on same irq :S

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    OH FU**ING HELL!!

    --Guess what just happened again... grrrrr

    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
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    Your processor is *unstable*

    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.

    This was occuring with my previous configuration:

    Soyo SY-K7VTA-B motherboard,
    AMD Athlon T-bird 900 @ 1.05ghz (1050 mhz),
    GeForce 2 MX200,
    SoundBlaster Audio PCI,

    primary master:
    Maxtor 13 GB UDMA 66 7200 RPM HDD

    secondary master:
    40x CD ROM drive

    secondary slave:
    Fujitsu 4 GB UDMA 33 HDD

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    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.
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    Chaintech 7AJA2E motherboard,
    AMD Athlon T-bird 1.3 ghz,
    GeForce 2 MX200,
    SoundBlaster Audio PCI,
    256 MB PC133/100 SDRAM,
    primary master:
    Maxtor 80 GB UDMA 100 HDD
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    secondary slave:
    Fujitsu 4 GB UDMA 33 HDD

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    with Windows XP Pro

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    Ah balls - thats a bummer

    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
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    definitely overclocking problem

    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

    Jake
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