re: IRQL Not Less Or Equal
Monday, January 5, 2004 at 9:35 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Hockey_Dad
(2 messages posted)
I found a solution to _my_ unexpeced reboots:
...I moved my USB hub card one more slot away from the (empty) AGP slot ... That's
the bottom line. Here's the story if you'er interested.
MOBO: GA-7VKML w/integrated Video, Sound, and NIC. Only added card is a USB (PCI)
bus in slot nearest AGP slot (unpopulated). 512 MB (2@256MB) mixed brand RAM.
I've been having daily unexpected reboots for about a year, sometimes a dozen a day.
I had them with Win98, then recently, with WinXP Pro (clean install) on same box
as had Win98.
I turned off the auto-reboot-on stop-error, so I've been able to see the various
error causing the reboots. The messages referred to "WIN32K.SYS", "S3GNB.DLL", "PAGE-FAULT-IN-NONPAGED-AREA",
and "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". Maybe others that I didn't write down... If I let Windows
report the error to Microsoft and analize it, Microsoft would give me the useless
report saying that there was some _unspecified_ "driver problem" (MS excells at worthless
"help".) I updated ALL my drivers, OS, programs, etc. I also uninstalled Zone Alarm
firewall, having read several reports of potential compatability problems (Hate
XP firewall). By the way, I checked my IRQs and none of them are shared. Still geting
lots of the same errors! 'Bout this time I'm looking for a trash can big enough to
dump my PC! -so now I'm thinking maybe incompatable video card or bad ram...
Finally I found a thread here in Annoyances.org suggesting that if a Sound card
is in PCI slot nearest AGP slot, sound and video would 'certainly' share resources/IRQ
and likely create the sort of problems I've been having.
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In desperation, I moved my USB hub card one more slot away from the (empty) AGP slot
and reversed my two RAM sricks. It's been a week now and NO reboots! NOT ONE. I think
the solution was moving the card. The fix looks real and I'm a happy dog. I hope
my experience will help somebody else.
Regards,
Hockey_Dad
On Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 2:10 am, bob barker wrote:
>In my case the error is related to a new optical drive, and high throughput coming
>in from it even though the system was otherwise idle. I have CL2 rated ram on an
>athlon xp system, and this is the only time I've run into it. To fix it i followed
>several steps suggested by previous messages in this thread. So try some of this,
>it might work for you.
>1. disable anything you're not using in the bios, so in my case com/lpt ports. i
>have an AC96 onboard sound chip, but this was already disabled so that definately
>was not the problem.
>2. reset the .. DCMS? i forget the correct name, but you'll find it in the bios,
>in the plug and play/resource section... this stores the information on peripherals
>in your system, if you have recently removed/moved any cards, it may not have recognized
>the change. this would also (maybe) assign different IRQs to things, but that didn't
>seem to be the problem either.
>3.reinstall your video drivers. i can't go past 44.03 with my geforce3 card and
stay
>stable, and the post-detonator (ForceWare??) series will not even install. i suspect
>this may have had something to do with the error, as my machine was crashing when
>simultaneously de/recoding video data from a dvd.
>4.replace the programs which are causing the crash. make sure you have the newest
>version.
>5.reinitialize your memory page file following the steps in the QB article mentionned
>in one of the above posts, apparently if it becomes corrupt, you may get this error.
>i believe, however, that i setup tweakUI to delete the page file upon shutting down
>the system, so that also shouldn't be the cause.
>
>That's it, that's all i did. no ram shuffling or case cracking of any kind.. i suppose
>i'm lucky. good luck!
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- re: IRQL Not Less Or Equal (bob barker: Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 2:10 am)
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