Greetings all,
Hopefully the technical experts in our community may be able to help with a
problem I have been having for quite some time.
Problem:- PC Blue Screens intermittently, but there is a pattern.
The BSOD is usually the "IRQ not less than or Equal" type but sometimes just
plain blue and only occur when playing games (no game in particular either),
NEVER during any other applications or desktop works. The other fact that I
have determined about the BSOD's are that they NEVER occur during actual
playing of the game, they ALWAYS occur when you are either exiting out of
the game through the game menus, OR going through the game menus to start a
game!
I have rebuilt a number of times with various BIOS configurations and
Windows configurations and of course have the system stock (not overclocked)
and the BIOS settings including RAM timings set to SPD default to try and
determine the root cause of the crashes.
Here are my system specs :-
Main Hardware:-
Intel P4 3.0ghz Northwood CPU
Asus P4C800E-deluxe (Intel 875P chipset)
Corsair PC3200 LL 2x512 matched modules
Audigy 2 ZS PCI sound card (Creative EAX4.0 drivers)
Gigabyte X800 XT PE platinum with Arctic Cooler HSF (Catalyst v4.12 drivers)
Thermaltake 1000 Xaser (7 cooling fans)
Antec 550watt Tru PSU
Software:-
Windows XP Pro Corp / Service Pack 2 / DirectX 9.0C
Intel motherboard chipset drivers: v6.2.1.1001
Audigy2 ZS EAX 4.0 drivers from Creative
Catalyst official ATi drivers v4.12
BIOS:-
Plug & Play OS = yes
Hyperthreading = yes
CPU vcore = 1.55v
DIMM voltage = 2.75v
AGP = 1.7v
Please let me know if you have any suggestions or solutions asap.
Regards
IceDOG (aka Gary)
Hopefully the technical experts in our community may be able to help with a
problem I have been having for quite some time.
Problem:- PC Blue Screens intermittently, but there is a pattern.
The BSOD is usually the "IRQ not less than or Equal" type but sometimes just
plain blue and only occur when playing games (no game in particular either),
NEVER during any other applications or desktop works. The other fact that I
have determined about the BSOD's are that they NEVER occur during actual
playing of the game, they ALWAYS occur when you are either exiting out of
the game through the game menus, OR going through the game menus to start a
game!
I have rebuilt a number of times with various BIOS configurations and
Windows configurations and of course have the system stock (not overclocked)
and the BIOS settings including RAM timings set to SPD default to try and
determine the root cause of the crashes.
Here are my system specs :-
Main Hardware:-
Intel P4 3.0ghz Northwood CPU
Asus P4C800E-deluxe (Intel 875P chipset)
Corsair PC3200 LL 2x512 matched modules
Audigy 2 ZS PCI sound card (Creative EAX4.0 drivers)
Gigabyte X800 XT PE platinum with Arctic Cooler HSF (Catalyst v4.12 drivers)
Thermaltake 1000 Xaser (7 cooling fans)
Antec 550watt Tru PSU
Software:-
Windows XP Pro Corp / Service Pack 2 / DirectX 9.0C
Intel motherboard chipset drivers: v6.2.1.1001
Audigy2 ZS EAX 4.0 drivers from Creative
Catalyst official ATi drivers v4.12
BIOS:-
Plug & Play OS = yes
Hyperthreading = yes
CPU vcore = 1.55v
DIMM voltage = 2.75v
AGP = 1.7v
Please let me know if you have any suggestions or solutions asap.
Regards
IceDOG (aka Gary)