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Greetings all,

Hopefully the technical experts in our community may be able to help with a
problem I have been having for quite some time.
Problem:- PC Blue Screens intermittently, but there is a pattern.
The BSOD is usually the "IRQ not less than or Equal" type but sometimes just
plain blue and only occur when playing games (no game in particular either),
NEVER during any other applications or desktop works. The other fact that I
have determined about the BSOD's are that they NEVER occur during actual
playing of the game, they ALWAYS occur when you are either exiting out of
the game through the game menus, OR going through the game menus to start a
game!

I have rebuilt a number of times with various BIOS configurations and
Windows configurations and of course have the system stock (not overclocked)
and the BIOS settings including RAM timings set to SPD default to try and
determine the root cause of the crashes.

Here are my system specs :-

Main Hardware:-
Intel P4 3.0ghz Northwood CPU
Asus P4C800E-deluxe (Intel 875P chipset)
Corsair PC3200 LL 2x512 matched modules
Audigy 2 ZS PCI sound card (Creative EAX4.0 drivers)
Gigabyte X800 XT PE platinum with Arctic Cooler HSF (Catalyst v4.12 drivers)
Thermaltake 1000 Xaser (7 cooling fans)
Antec 550watt Tru PSU

Software:-
Windows XP Pro Corp / Service Pack 2 / DirectX 9.0C
Intel motherboard chipset drivers: v6.2.1.1001
Audigy2 ZS EAX 4.0 drivers from Creative
Catalyst official ATi drivers v4.12

BIOS:-
Plug & Play OS = yes
Hyperthreading = yes
CPU vcore = 1.55v
DIMM voltage = 2.75v
AGP = 1.7v

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or solutions asap.

Regards
IceDOG (aka Gary)

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you have lots of high quality components so this is a long shot. Read your manual and make sure you have the memory modules in the right slots. Try running <A HREF="http://www.memtest86.com/" target="_new">Memtest86</A>

Also some others with the same problem and the discussion here should give u some ideas:
<A HREF="http://www.tekforums.co.uk:81/lofiversion/index.php/t29808.html" target="_new">http://www.tekforums.co.uk:81/lofiversion/index.php/t29808.html</A>
<A HREF="http://hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36932/" target="_new">http://hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36932/</A>

Also this.

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OK GUYS,

"IRQ not less than or equal to" is a fairly common BSOD.

however it generally leans toward the first 2 things.

1) RAM it is often a memory issue, reseating can sometimes help.
mis-matched stick can cuase this. bad ram addresses can cause this.
etc. 90% of the time its this.

2) third party software. this means anything other than windoz,
however it can also mean a bad install of windows or corrupt install.
SP2 is a good one for this. often comes from a new plug-in/sample that for some reason dont like whats installed.

3) Bad drivers while not too common it can throw this error

4) Power supply, a bad power supply can have you chasing your tail for ever.

5) looking on Microshafts website "knowledge base" can give you answers sometimes. although hard to search

Scott

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The loving are the daring!

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Can you borrow me your pc? just for a little while! lol

P4-2800->FSB800, Asus P4P800, 512DDR-400, Creative GeForce DDR (the first one lol)

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Try using slower memory timings just as a test for increased stability.

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