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Driver IRQL not less or eual BSOD on new system

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Hello guys, I'm green to this site and to many aspects of system building, especially since it had been so long since I had endeavored to build one.

I've had this new system up and running for about a week now after returning a faulty PSU and having my mobo tested due to missing RAM. It's worked relatively well except for these bluescreens I keep get about 85% of the time when i try to open a game (World of Warcraft is the only one I have installed so far).

Its a "Driver IRQL not less or equal" bsod, and it seems to be telling me the problem lies within a file called cmos108.sys.

I've tried to google for others with the exact same problem but haven't found anything yet. My system specs are:

GPU - Asus GeForce GTX285
PSU - Corsair 650W TX
HDD - WD WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II
CPU - Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz
RAM - 6GB Corsair TR3X6G1600C9
MB - Asus P6T DELUXE

I am currently running Windows XP x64 Corporate Edition.

So far I've tried the following steps to solve the problem:

I formated the system completely, both partitions.
Tried uninstalling nvidia drivers and installing an earlier release.
Ran Memtest for 13 hours with approx. 2500% coverage, 0 errors.
Since I am also experiencing issues with missing RAM, I flashed my BIOS which would, according to the Asus support website, increase memory compatibility.

Any ideas would be heartily welcome, this system has been a proper pain in the a** so far and I'm really wanting it to start working as intended. Any more questions I can answer about the nature of the problems please ask, I could write down the whole BSOD with addresses and all if that would help.

Thanks in advance,

Stian

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This is what the bluescreen looks like






Technical info:

*** STOP: 0x000000D1 (0xFFFFFAE19B204DA0, 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000, 0xFFFFFADF8CCD7BE)

*** CMOS108.SYS - Address FFFFFADF8CCD7BE base at FFFFFADF8CCB3000, Datestamp 458a4eae

Beginning dump of physical memory

Reply to Anonymous

Perhaps I'm just being a proper scrub, but i can't find any of these on msinfo. I'll keep looking!

Reply to Anonymous

Hopefully nobody's time but my own was wasted on this problem, as I somehow managed to misread the problem file name. It was not CMOS.108.sys (which kinda sounded like a serious BIOS issue, but CM108.sys. After sifting through msinfo for a while I discovered that this harmless rascal is related to my USB Headset sound drivers, so I should be able to fix it no problems.

I'm kinda chuffed I managed to diagnose it myself to be quite honest, being the scrub I am!

Reply to Anonymous

IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL usually is a driver conflict, although bad RAM can also cause the error. Run memtest86 to rule out the bad RAM, and if it passes, you know its probably a driver conflict.

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