mikegray
02-24-2006, 05:27 PM
Well ... here goes!
I've just installed some new bits and pieces on my 'puter, and things are NOT good. It started with a new TV card - with an ATI 550 Pro chipset. I wanted to run some good filters on live video and started running into performance walls, so I added a modest OC to my system - taking it from 2.8 to 3.0 by nudging the FSB to 218.
For a week or so everything seemed great - the filters had just what they needed and the system seemed fine - till I started getting random crashes. Then, this morning, I had a crash followed by massive disk corruption - so bad that chkdsk hung! Well ... these things happen, I thought - and I reformatted and reinstalled XP.
The system is set up pretty well now - I hadn't added in any more USB stuff than a keyboard - mouse combo. So far, everything was rock solid. Then, I (stupidly) changed three things between boots:
(1) I noticed that dual channel was turned off, so I turned it on in BIOS.
(2) I noticed that I'd forgotten my OC - so I went from 2.8 to 3.0 again.
(3) I added the Sapphire TV card.
The PC booted just fine. I got a "New Hardware" alert from XP and was about to start loading drivers - when I got a BSOD. It was an IRQL Not less or equal message. I found this in System Events:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000000a (0xfffffffc, 0x0000001c, 0x00000000, 0x804e1456). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini022406-01.dmp.
I've put the dmp file here (http://homepage.hispeed.ch/mikesusangray/Mini022406-01.zip)
I didn't change anything, but simply rebooted and have been using the pc without incident for about an hour and a half.
Anyway, the question is: was the BSOD cuased by an installation problem or by something brought on by my dual channel & overclocking adventure? I really, really don't want to end up with another corrupted HD!
Peace,
Mike
I've just installed some new bits and pieces on my 'puter, and things are NOT good. It started with a new TV card - with an ATI 550 Pro chipset. I wanted to run some good filters on live video and started running into performance walls, so I added a modest OC to my system - taking it from 2.8 to 3.0 by nudging the FSB to 218.
For a week or so everything seemed great - the filters had just what they needed and the system seemed fine - till I started getting random crashes. Then, this morning, I had a crash followed by massive disk corruption - so bad that chkdsk hung! Well ... these things happen, I thought - and I reformatted and reinstalled XP.
The system is set up pretty well now - I hadn't added in any more USB stuff than a keyboard - mouse combo. So far, everything was rock solid. Then, I (stupidly) changed three things between boots:
(1) I noticed that dual channel was turned off, so I turned it on in BIOS.
(2) I noticed that I'd forgotten my OC - so I went from 2.8 to 3.0 again.
(3) I added the Sapphire TV card.
The PC booted just fine. I got a "New Hardware" alert from XP and was about to start loading drivers - when I got a BSOD. It was an IRQL Not less or equal message. I found this in System Events:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000000a (0xfffffffc, 0x0000001c, 0x00000000, 0x804e1456). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini022406-01.dmp.
I've put the dmp file here (http://homepage.hispeed.ch/mikesusangray/Mini022406-01.zip)
I didn't change anything, but simply rebooted and have been using the pc without incident for about an hour and a half.
Anyway, the question is: was the BSOD cuased by an installation problem or by something brought on by my dual channel & overclocking adventure? I really, really don't want to end up with another corrupted HD!
Peace,
Mike