Problems with Drivers, Please Help :)

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Euan0797

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Hello, Good folks of tom's Hardware,

I have been having a lot of trouble with my drivers.
Well,
My setup is;
AMD 8350,
AMD Radeon 6870 HD
8 GB Corsair Vengeance,
Gigabyte 990FX UD3
128 GB Sandisk SSD
2 TB Western Digital HDD
Windows 7 64-bit.

So - It goes like this, I am a big gamer, and I bought State of Decay on the Steam Summer Sale.
Excited to have a go, I loaded it up and said something along the lines of "Your graphics card's software is out of date", So I then proceeded to download some drivers for my graphics card, They were certainly the most recent ones, but I couldn't remember if I'd already downloaded them a couple months back.

So I download these drivers, State of Decay repeats the message, so i ignore it. Continue on and about an hour later - State of Decay just stopped. I'd gotten a bit fed up anyway, so I kicked up battlefield 4, and repeatedly got the Blue Screen of Death with the error message "Driver_IRQL_Not _Less_Or_Equal" I've been looking everywhere but can't find a solution that doesn't involve reinstalling windows. I also got a different message once, "system_service_exception".

Since then, I've uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them.

No such luck.

I've been quite fed up with my drivers, but nevertheless I was wondering if one of you lads could give me some help.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks -Euan.
 
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"Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal" generally means that there's a resource trying to access something it's not allowed to. For instance, video card trying to acces IRQ 0 or something, which is reserved and will not allow a video card connection to it no matter what, something along that line. First thing to try is reseating everything inside the computer. Memory, video card, etc. Anything that's connecting to the motherboard. Second thing you can attempt is rolling back to the previous drivers that were installed for the video card, since it was the only thing that changed on the system, which you can usually do best through system restore.

I've found that more often than not, when this message is received, it's a memory problem, in...
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athlonman00

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"Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Or_Equal" generally means that there's a resource trying to access something it's not allowed to. For instance, video card trying to acces IRQ 0 or something, which is reserved and will not allow a video card connection to it no matter what, something along that line. First thing to try is reseating everything inside the computer. Memory, video card, etc. Anything that's connecting to the motherboard. Second thing you can attempt is rolling back to the previous drivers that were installed for the video card, since it was the only thing that changed on the system, which you can usually do best through system restore.

I've found that more often than not, when this message is received, it's a memory problem, in my experience.
 
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athlonman00

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It should alleviate any driver issues that came up, and the computer would feel faster until such a time that everything you like installed is running, then it'll feel bogged down like normal, particularly if you have a lot of programs running at startup
 
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