Dear all,

I have been plagued by these 2 IRQL/PAGE_FAULT errors for a while now.  I own a laptop 
computer and so changing hardware is not very feasible.

I generally experience the errors at set points whilst watching DivX encoded films 
in Windows Media Player 9 in fullscreen (generally it would be fine in a window). 
 The fact that the errors occur at the same point in the video (or after a certain 
time period) meant it's been easy to find out if i've fixed the problem I had.

Whilst it is still fresh in my mind, I felt I should post the fix somewhere so maybe 
others could follow what I did and perhaps come to a solution.

My system is an AMD Athlon 1600+ (1.4GHz) notebook with 384mb ram and an S3 Twister 
K video card.

here is what i've done:

1.  Downgraded from XP Pro to Home using image cds from supplier (still crashes with 
same error)
2.  Installed XP SP1
3.  Installed latest video drivers for S3 Twister K
4.  Installed every recommended update from WindowsUpdate (relating to QB articles 
- not things like DX9 etc..)
5.  Installed S3 Twister drivers from VIATech.com website
6.  Installed latest VIATech4-in-1 drivers
7.  I read on the DivX.com website that DivX5.0 is optimized for AMD processors, 
so I disabled post-processing in DivXConfig.

and to think... after all this it was still crashing at the same point of the film.

8.  I checked the bios.  Unfortunately the bios settings are not very advanced compared 
to desktop bios's, however I was able to alter "Shared Video Memory", between 8, 
16 and 32mb.  Current setting was on 16mb.  I changed it to 32mb, and now I am 30 
minutes into the film, fullscreen, and not even so much as a hiccup from the video.

I hope this has indeed fixed the problem for me, and also that it might help other 
sufferers (and doing a Google search tells me there's alot of you!)

Kieran

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