Hello everyone!

This is the start of a hopefully long and fulfilled relationship with the DAL support community. To begin with, I'm having a little (joke, it's massive) problem with my Windows XP-based computing system.

I'm getting the BSOD. I'm not entirely sure what it's all about but I have posted about it here on a forum that is rather dull with a community that isn't very eager to help me. If you could just quickly skim over that short thread, it should get you up to speed with my problem.

Now I'll begin with some exclusive information regarding my problem. I just found this in the hardware resources section of System Information:

I/O Port 0x0000A000-0x0000AFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
I/O Port 0x0000A000-0x0000AFFF Radeon X1800 Series

I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7 Direct memory access controller

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF Radeon X1800 Series

IRQ 22 Realtek AC'97 Audio
IRQ 22 NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller

IRQ 23 NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
IRQ 23 NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator

Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xEFFFFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xEFFFFFFF Radeon X1800 Series

IRQ 18 Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
IRQ 18 Radeon X1800 Series

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF Radeon X1800 Series

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB Radeon X1800 Series

Could it be related to the problem? In some of my errors it does blame the AUDIO DRIVER, and Windows Error Reporting takes me to a page saying "Error caused by a device driver". If these conflicts are the problem, how do I remedy them?

Secondly, I posted about my motherboard sensors being incorrect (the 2.5v "wire" was reading 1.8v). Could this cause memory related crashes?

I have run MEMTEST and the WINDOWS MEMORY DIAGNOSTIC tool on my computer. MEMTEST did detect some errors (a week or so ago) with both sticks in but I've been unable to replicate the errors. The WINDOWS MEMORY DIAGNOSTIC tool picks up a STRIDE6 error when running extended tests but only when BOTH sticks of RAM are in the computer. Very strange.

Some of the errors I've been getting include:

EXCEPTION_DIVIDED_BY_ZERO
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (most common)
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

When analysing the minidumps most of them contain the following lines:

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME: (last program used).exe
IMAGE_NAME: memory_corruption

Common applications it has crashed using has been Flight Simulator X, uTorrent, Picasa2, etc. The crashes don't happen that often. I'd say bi-daily. Way too often for my liking though.

All (crazy, uneducated, insane, and informative) help welcome. Thanks DAL.

hi, welcome to D-A-L

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

This is to do with an incorrect/faulty driver (probably the sond driver in your case)

remove any newly installed hardware (if any) and un-install any new software (and flight simulator)

do you still get the error messages? if not, put the hardware back in and re-install the drivers,

if you do not have any new hardware, re-install your audio/video drivers

Hey,

I have uninstalled my Audio Drivers (AC'97) and will see how it goes. Does this explain why my computer doesn't pass the RAM 'stride6' test when running the Windows Diagnostic tool?

I uninstalled my AC'97 (audio driver) but I still received a blue screen. I've reinstalled the driver now.

I noticed I still had some drivers left over from Daemon Tools installation so I have removed them and I will see how it goes.

Any other ideas/suggestions?

do you have an xp oem cd that came with your pc?

if so, try a repair install: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

So far the computer has been great. No blue screens of death. I'm thinking it might, possibly, be Dameon Tools that was causing all the trouble (even though I uninstalled it, but as of today the drivers are gone-ski). I will however keep you posted. I'm trying like mad to make my computer crash. It used to crash at such random times though, not when the processor was playing a hardcore game, but just when I was using Windows with a couple of programs open.

Thanks again.

so, how often do you get the BSOD's? and what are they?

Over the past few days (before I deleted the Daemon Tools drivers) I was getting around two or so BSODs a day. The following stop messages come to mind:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
An attempt was made to execute non-executable memory

I still do get a single same-type BSOD in Flight Simulator X (beta demo). It's a buggy release and the error only occurs when I do one specific thing with one of my joystick buttons in a certain mission. Can blue screens be caused by buggy software?

The specific Flight Simulator X (pre-release buggy demo) error is a 0x0000007F and Microsoft says:

A divide by zero is caused when a DIV instruction is executed and the divisor is 0. Memory corruption (or other hardware problems) or software failures can cause this.

Age of Empires III which would have around the same level of CPU/RAM/graphics usage of my PC runs fine.

I'm only really concerned about the Windows crashes. And as I said before, I haven't had any since I uninstalled the Daemon Tools drivers.

Do you think this blue screen is just Flight Simulator? (As an even more complicated sidenote, it only occurs when I have my joystick plugged in. If I repeat the same action without my joystick there is no error.)

Can blue screens be caused by buggy software?

Probably, they can be caused by allsorts.

Do you think this blue screen is just Flight Simulator? (As an even more complicated sidenote, it only occurs when I have my joystick plugged in. If I repeat the same action without my joystick there is no error.)

Try re-installing your joystick driver, is your joystick compatible with FS? (i.e does flight sim. support joysticks)

I would try a repair or clean install if you havnt already done so.

Mike

Hello, i'm not sure it runs but try another memory modul or change your memory to another bank, it's the most common source of problems with the request's iterruptions