More PC Woes :(

[Skyler]

Righty, after posting about my horrible Abit KR7A-133 board problems some weeks ago, I've since dumped that board in favour of an Epox 8K3A+. This has solved the majority of ACPI problems and blue screens on boot etc.

However, the machine is still unstable and I cant seem to work out why...

I currently get an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL bsod at occasions when playing CS, I havent had it playing any other games yet...
It happens around every 1 - 5 days and its driving me nuts...

I am also getting that error when copying some files from my other hard disk, they can be opened, they can be read, but they wont copy, they just give me the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD :/
The files in which its erroring on seem to be changing as well, it was a particular file, but I did a thorough scandisk earlier and it copied the entire dir sucessfully immediately after, I then rebooted and it started BSODing on a new file :/


I've checked all my hdds with powermax, I've run thorough chkdsks on both drives also, I'm tempted to do a surface scan but I dont really think that would bring up anything that the powermax util missed



Any suggestions would be nice...


My comp spec is:

AMD XP1900+
Epox 8K3A+
256 pc333 ram
Maxtor D740X 80gb hdd's * 2
Gainward gf4 ti4400
SBLive! (note: problem also occurs using AC97 onboard audio)
3com 3c905b-tx nic (also tried an intel nic and same problem)

Thats all running on win2k with ntfs partitions...


Hopefully someone can come up with something because its driving me nuts

almost 14 weeks since i originally ordered the machine and its still not working properly :/

 

[S-Gray]

from what microsoft say, it looks to be problem with Memory

 

[kryt]

Had a few problems with CS and other games myself, however I managed to wittle them down to my USB ADSL Modem, solved by making sure the BIOS wasn't assigned the USB ports IRQ's, and also by using ICS with the modem on another PC.

If this is the case, I assume you have tried different drivers for your NICS ? Failing that, try physically moving it in the PC itself.

Hopefully that's of some help. - Btw, im on a KR7A 133-Raid myself, not had any problems with that :| Yet, anyway.

 

[bids]

I has this screen when I downloaded a beta version of one of the Detonator drivers - downloaded a WHQL version (29.42) and problem went away - worth a try ?

 

[PR.]

If you have a spare graphics card try using that.

 

[Skyler]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'll be trying the ones I havent tried allready, but atm I'm waiting for it to BSOD first..


As for your mobo kryt, you are so lucky that it doesnt have problems, I've had two and a mates had one that all fail to support ACPI properly and end up completely fucking themselves over, they give me copying errors when trying to install windows, they bsod like no tomorow (I've seen almost every BSOD there is with that mobo). You are indeed very lucky you have no problems