BSoD

[miek]

I am getting a BSoD IRQ Not less than or Equal every time I try to run a game.

Its really bugging me and I am about to reinstall Windows XP for the fourth time on this new PC (the other 3 times were for some stupid mistakes I made... anyway)

my system is:
Asus A8N-SLI deluxe (Bios v1008)
AMD A64 3800+
Corsair XMS PC3200 (2-3-3-6)
BFG 6800GT PCI-Ex (77.72 drivers)
1x Maxtor 80gig SATA (nVidia SATA 1)
2x Maxtor 250gig SATA (nVidia SATA 3 & 4, raid 0)
Plextor PX-712SA (nVidia SATA 2, Firmware Update v1.07) <-- windows thinks this is just a CD drive ?? havent tried burning anything yet, in device manager it shows up as 'CD-ROM drive'
Panasonic DVD-105 (IDE Channel 0 master) <-- shows up fine
SB Audigy 2 ZS
Logitech MX1000

I have Forceware 6.53 installed on SP2. I have not overclocked anything. The BSoD isn't helpful and I tried looking through the dumps to see if that could lend any clues as to what exactly was causing it but I couldnt find anything.

Any ideas?

 

[Perrupa]

gone to windows update yet?
it might have a hardware update for your plextor drive, or check out the plextor webpage.

let us know how it goes.

Peace

 

[miek]

i have the latest firmware from Plextor v1.07

 

[peacetilence]

I was getting BSOD too, ran memtest and encountered errors, fixed the memory issue and still had BSOD so I reformated and reinstalled XP in case the OS had somehow become corrupt. I'm not sure what else you can do except troubleshoot every hardware component and piece of software you have on your pc.