>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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