Hello,
For about the last month I have been recieving stop error messages surrounded by a lovely blue screen. I think it all started when the fan on the north bridge froze up. I ended up formatting after that due to all the reboots. The hard drive became so fragmented and jsut plain @!&$*# it wouldn't even boot up. Anyway, I replaced the fan and formatted and everything was better.......or so I thought. I recieved the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL stop error on Wednesday while I was working on 3DS Max and I think I was running Photoshop at the same time editing a material map. I pulled out my old 2GB hard drive and tried to install Win2K on it and it wouldn't even let me do that, I just recieved anther stop error. I thought it was my Win2K disk. I removed both sticks of RAM (Crucial 256MB, DDR, 266Mhz, PC2100) and replaced them. I must have swapped positions on them because everything worked. I then noticed that they were only counting to 393??? something in post. So I removed them one at a time and found that both sticks would count to 261 in the left socket but only one would in the right socket. The other would only reach 131. I guess this is finally my question....sorry about the novel. Is this just a back stick of RAM or does it have something to do with my motherboard?
Thanks to anyone in advance for any help or ideas you can offer. I am at the end of my knowledge on the matter.
For about the last month I have been recieving stop error messages surrounded by a lovely blue screen. I think it all started when the fan on the north bridge froze up. I ended up formatting after that due to all the reboots. The hard drive became so fragmented and jsut plain @!&$*# it wouldn't even boot up. Anyway, I replaced the fan and formatted and everything was better.......or so I thought. I recieved the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL stop error on Wednesday while I was working on 3DS Max and I think I was running Photoshop at the same time editing a material map. I pulled out my old 2GB hard drive and tried to install Win2K on it and it wouldn't even let me do that, I just recieved anther stop error. I thought it was my Win2K disk. I removed both sticks of RAM (Crucial 256MB, DDR, 266Mhz, PC2100) and replaced them. I must have swapped positions on them because everything worked. I then noticed that they were only counting to 393??? something in post. So I removed them one at a time and found that both sticks would count to 261 in the left socket but only one would in the right socket. The other would only reach 131. I guess this is finally my question....sorry about the novel. Is this just a back stick of RAM or does it have something to do with my motherboard?
Thanks to anyone in advance for any help or ideas you can offer. I am at the end of my knowledge on the matter.
