geforce4 is kickin my butt!!!!!

[armnhammer]

hi i have upgraded my system to drive myself crazy lol, i have a sis735 chipset on a win2k os with 390 megs of sdram(i think thats right info)evry time i try to run a game(rtcw/jk2) my computer either gives me the blue screen of death with a large code on top with "driver irq not less or equel"or"adress 80431b22 base at 80400000datestamp 39760637 ntoskrnl.exe" begin dump of physical memory, or reboots completly after flashing the above statements that i can tell. now my irq 11 is packed with most of my periphials, sound card, lancard, video card,IEEE host controller,and my usb controlers. i dont know how to change that if thats the prob or what i have the latest drivers, agp drivers, done everything i know can someone please help thenx

[saphalline]

There's an easy way to tell if your system has some kind of device problem, just use Device Manager. Right-click on My Computer, select the Device Manager tab. Now, without touching or expanding anything, just scroll down the list and see if there are any yellow exclamation points next to anything. If yes, then Windows has an issue with the indicated hardware part. If no, I believe you can still manually set IRQ's within Device Manager (someone please tell me if I'm wrong as I've never actually tried this).

Either way, you may need to manually delete the conflicting part(s) and physically uninstall them. Then you need to re-install them one at a time with at least one reboot between. Following this, it's unlikely that Windows will install hardware parts so that they conflict with eachother (ie same IRQ for half your parts).

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[armnhammer]

thnx but iv tried that im runnin win2k pro and it wont let me do a thing i built this thing for gameing and its the only thing it wont do argh help me please thanx

[mjc]

After doing a little searching I have come up with what seems to be about the only fix...physically remove all the peripheral devices (everything except the video card), boot into Windows and remove anything that is still there, then after everything is gone start adding the cards back in one at a time until you hit that brick wall again...then you will know which device has the bad/wrong version driver.

Also take a trip to here (http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp) and see if all you hardware is listed as compatible...

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[iisbob]

Do you have service pack 2 installed?

Did you do a fresh install of 2k without the peripheral's in; then added them one at a time?

It actually looks as if you have a bad install. I would suggest using the recovery console to reinstall all your critical system files, especially the OS kernel ( ntoskrnl.exe ).



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[Matt]

Even though I mainly use Win98 I might have an idea. First, how many different PCI/ISA cards and onboard stuff do you have installed/turned on? Also, when you mentioned that this was the result of an upgrade did you install the new video card on an old install of Windows?

If you have a ton of PCI/ISA and onboard devices (RAID controllers, sound, etc.) you may try removing the cards or turning uneeded oboard devices off to free up IRQs. If you need all your cards on the PCI bus then you may try the PCI card shuffle and see if you can find a combination that lets all the cards share the available IRQs well. The fact that your lan card is on the same IRQ as your video cards seems to point to this solution. Most lan cards (that I have used) require a PCI master slot and do not like sharing IRQs. When my NIC shared an IRQ with another device my computer would always lock up when I transfered any files over 1 meg over the network. I would also get frequent blue screens of deaths and other misc. annoying crashes.

If you just pulled out the old video card and plopped the new on in your computer; did you make sure that all of the old video card drivers were removed first? If not, you may simply have a device driver problem... but I would ask somone else here about how to solve this problem.. I usually end up formatting my HD and re-installing at this point (you can fix the problem without re-installing... I am just lazy).

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The first time I installed Windows it took only one try. When I tried re-installing Windows at a later date it took 30+ tries before I got it right... go figure. =P

[armnhammer]

well i think i fixed it and the problem was.........drumroll...........HEAT? if i keep my case off everything runs fine lol i now have 2 extra fans and im leavin my case exposed eww its ugly
i recieved the error once afterword but after 4 hours of rtcw i guess i kicked its butt lol temp fix i guess any suggestions or real fix please tell me ive done everything u guys have told me to do
p.s if your a gamer using a high end vid/agp DO NOT BUY A SISK735 learn from me