- Joined
- Dec 5, 2003
- Location
- @Home, Folding
First the specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego
DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D with 310 BIOS
2x512MB Crucial PC3200 RAM in the orange slots
ATI Radeon X800XL 256MB PCI-Express
Chaintech AV-710 sound card
Windows XP Pro SP2
Fortron Blue Storm 500W PSU
Latest drivers AFAIK
Nothing is overclocked or has even been overclocked yet.
I've been having some strange problems on my new rig. The only problems that occur, happen at startup, everything else is fine. It has been folding for 2 weeks and has not crashed once in games or doing anything, the only time I have problems is on the startup.
Sometimes I get errors, sometimes I don't, it's very strange. The errors are anything from an "Entry Point Not Found" when something tries to access a DLL on startup, to the Spooler service not starting, to svchost.exe errors (event 1003 according to the Event Log). About 3 times on startup (out of 100+ startups), I have got a BSOD that says "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". I have some screenshots that I can post if needed.
I've been in the BIOS trying to find the problem, I've disabled stuff I don't use, as well as messed with some other stuff. The problem doesn't seem to be tied to a certain device or a certain driver so I just don't know what to do.
I guess what I am trying to find out is if it sounds like my Windows Install has somehow gone bad and I need to re-install, or if it is a hardware, BIOS, or driver problem. Any input is appreciated, I'm about to pull my hair out over this
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego
DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D with 310 BIOS
2x512MB Crucial PC3200 RAM in the orange slots
ATI Radeon X800XL 256MB PCI-Express
Chaintech AV-710 sound card
Windows XP Pro SP2
Fortron Blue Storm 500W PSU
Latest drivers AFAIK
Nothing is overclocked or has even been overclocked yet.
I've been having some strange problems on my new rig. The only problems that occur, happen at startup, everything else is fine. It has been folding for 2 weeks and has not crashed once in games or doing anything, the only time I have problems is on the startup.
Sometimes I get errors, sometimes I don't, it's very strange. The errors are anything from an "Entry Point Not Found" when something tries to access a DLL on startup, to the Spooler service not starting, to svchost.exe errors (event 1003 according to the Event Log). About 3 times on startup (out of 100+ startups), I have got a BSOD that says "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". I have some screenshots that I can post if needed.
I've been in the BIOS trying to find the problem, I've disabled stuff I don't use, as well as messed with some other stuff. The problem doesn't seem to be tied to a certain device or a certain driver so I just don't know what to do.
I guess what I am trying to find out is if it sounds like my Windows Install has somehow gone bad and I need to re-install, or if it is a hardware, BIOS, or driver problem. Any input is appreciated, I'm about to pull my hair out over this
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