Anyone who can lend some expertise, would be appreciated.

This has been troublesome, since i havent loaded any new programs or added new hardware, no driver updates etc...for about 6 months, and the PC was running perfectly.

2 days ago my PC came up with a Blue Screen of Death, showing Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_or_Equal, dumping mem....etc., this came out of nowhere.

I figured i'd check the drivers, or the RAM and it'd go away....wrong.
well since then i can reboot, and windows boots up fine, everything works for about 4-5 minutes, then the mouse begins to become very irratic...and then Blue screen. Sometimes it reads Driver_IRQL error, but not always.

Not enough time to really back up anything, and not enough time to really run to many diagnostics.

I have noticed that when I boot up, the Motherboard Temp specs show irregularly...the VDD displays in red at 1.54v...although i am unfamiliar with the VDD.

I built the PC myself, but my knowledge is pretty basic
Epox EP-8RDA+ Motherboard nForce2
AMD 1700+ 1.4 AthlonXP TBRED
running XP PRO
I have 4 fans in the case plus the one on the processor, and the one on the video card.
I never overclocked the system

the advice i have from others was the RAM or the motherboard is shot.
I was planning to replace the MoBO with the same model from Newegg, since its only $68 now, but I want to be sure this is really the problem.

I plan to see if I can get some more answers in safe mode tonight, but any insight would help me alot.

Thanks in advance

Interesting would be the third line of the error message in which the driver/file is listed that caused the problem. Can u post back with that ?

Well I tried to troubleshoot some things in Safe Mode, and the system stayed up a little longer...but I eventually lost the Mouse...then the keyboard, then it just froze...no blue screen. After that the system wouldnt reboot at all, until this morning.

I ran CHKDSK and it ran fine
checked the eventlog and there was a ton of info, but i really couldnt make heads or tails of it...a few errors, mostly information log(eventlog, service control mgr, applic. popup's)

This morning it started fine, for about 5 minutes...then...

A problem has been detected .... has been shut done to prevent damage

Driver_IRQL_not_less_or_equal

Stop: 0x000000D1 (0x00000019, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0xF69F2EB)

NVMCP.SYS - Address F69F227EB base at F6994000, Datestamp 3defb47d

-also I had a correction on the VDD is has been 1.29V and labeled RED on the moBo startup health status page...I think i said 1.54 in my previous post

Aight, there is some problem with a driver from nVidia.
Now i am not entirely sure about the file in question but i think it is referring to the onboard sound. So what i would do just to be on the safe side is update drivers for the mainboard (n-force chipset) and if u got a nVidia graphics card update them drivers as well and see what happens to those bluescreens.

Alright...My system has now been up for 1 hr, with no problems. I downloaded the drivers yesterday, but didnt install them, because the computer blue screended on me. So i tried today and i let the disk check run, before booting up, and ...sure enough it removed a bunch of Nvidia files, probably 6-9 of them. And so far so good.

Thanks for your help, I'll update you after I reload all updates on these drivers.

This was odd, do drivers usually just go bad for no reason, at any random time?

ok ..nevermind...the going good just stopped....the system finally just froze after a hour and a half, ...and no blue screen...but it wont reboot either. I will try in a few hours, maybe after it cools. The VDD still reads in the red at 1.29, at last temp check