BSOD - "IRQL not less or equal"

[montezuma]

This is most likely a hard drive problem, but I'm not sure, so I'll put it here.

Quite often when I access my Maxtor 6V300F0 SATA hard drive, my system BSOD's with "IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL" and references nvata.sys. Every once in a while it says "DRIVER IRQL" or references ndis.sys instead. But this is ONLY when I'm accessing that drive in some manner. I don't know if there's a hardware conflict or what. This hasn't always happened, but I've lost track of when it started or if any special circumstances happened when it started. My RAID array main drive and my old IDE 200gb work fine. I've formatted the problem drive and never use it, but haven't removed it, but the problem never happens unless I'm accessing the drive, whether it's connected or not.

AMD 64 X2 3800+
2gb dual channel RAM
Geforce 7900GT
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe

Anyone have any ideas? Let me know if you need more info. Thanks.

 

[LstBrunnenG]

I remember there was an incompatibility between NForce4 and certain Maxtor drives. Check their site to see if they have a firmware update for you.

 

[engiNURD]

uninstall the nvidia eide drivers. use the default winxp ones instead.

 

[montezuma]

I checked with Maxtor, apparently the update is only for a no detection issue. Mine is most certainly detected, so...

How do I uninstall that driver? I don't even see it installed, actually... the NVIDIA driver removal doesn't list it. Just the audio, video, ethernet, mediashield, and PCI management. I can't really tell what my drive is using.