Computer help

[Seved]

Ok, whenever I do something on my computer I will randomly get the blue screen of death but it is usually when i play WoW... Anyway, I get the blue screen and it says

Driver_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

then it says

NDIS.sys - Adress blah blah blah

Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Thanks!

[Nightfall]

Sounds like you have an IRQ shortage. Try removing any unused PCI and/or USB devices. If that doesn't help than it could also be a piece of hardware failing. Try removing all of your PCI devices so you are down to just your video card. If at that point it seems to be working fine then add devices back in to your box one at a time booting into windows each time and playing WoW for a while until you add a device back in which causes the BSOD, in which case you just isolated the problem.

If that doesn't help then put everything back the way you had it and:

1) Run memtest ( http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.2.iso.zip )

2) If that comes back with no errors than it may be an overheating issue. Try running prime95
( http://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v2413.exe ) for about an hour.

3) If none of these cause a BSOD then update your chipset drivers to the latest, as well as your video card drivers.

4) If that doesn't resolve the issue try running 3DMark05

http://files4.majorgeeks.com/files/9e0f9113b44003201076a9fade1b72d8/benchmark/3DMark05_v120_installer.exe

assuming you are on broadband (near 300 meg download)

5) If you don't have broadband try playing a newer graphic intensive game for about an hour (Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Far Cry, ect.) on the highest settings your video card/monitor will let you run, regardless of the performance you get. (i.e. 1600x1200 8xAA 16xAF w/highest in game settings)

6) If that doesn't help then format and reinstall Windows

7) If that doesn't help, after trying everything I mentioned, then throw your computer in the garbage ;)

[Seved]

Sounds like you have an IRQ shortage. Try removing any unused PCI and/or USB devices. If that doesn't help than it could also be a piece of hardware failing. Try removing all of your PCI devices so you are down to just your video card. If at that point it seems to be working fine then add devices back in to your box one at a time booting into windows each time and playing WoW for a while until you add a device back in which causes the BSOD, in which case you just isolated the problem.

If that doesn't help then put everything back the way you had it and:

1) Run memtest ( http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.2.iso.zip )

2) If that comes back with no errors than it may be an overheating issue. Try running prime95
( http://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v2413.exe ) for about an hour.

3) If none of these cause a BSOD then update your chipset drivers to the latest, as well as your video card drivers.

4) If that doesn't resolve the issue try running 3DMark05

http://files4.majorgeeks.com/files/9e0f9113b44003201076a9fade1b72d8/benchmark/3DMark05_v120_installer.exe

assuming you are on broadband (near 300 meg download)

5) If you don't have broadband try playing a newer graphic intensive game for about an hour (Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Far Cry, ect.) on the highest settings your video card/monitor will let you run, regardless of the performance you get. (i.e. 1600x1200 8xAA 16xAF w/highest in game settings)

6) If that doesn't help then format and reinstall Windows

7) If that doesn't help, after trying everything I mentioned, then throw your computer in the garbage ;)


haha i really liked #7 But I will try all these and thanks for such a great post.