Bluescreen "IRQL not less or equal" on start-up
Khan of Wyrms:
Quote from: Rose Outlaw on 2007 May 06, 01:52:24
Kaspersky messes up the graphic drivers?
Kaspersky is anti-virus, I presume, it is for me, and anti-virus messes up everything, including viruses. Make sure it is not enabled before installing anything, especially drivers.
Rose Outlaw:
Right, Kaspersky got other crap like anti-spam and such stuff, but I usually refer to the antivirus when I say/write it or KAV.
Today, KAV was uninstalled, then I took the ATI remover tool and got rid of the installed drivers.
Then I went for the Omega drivers, mainly because stupid ATI homepage only came up with "no leeching" warnings instead of downloads.
Well, those drivers make GTA: San Andreas simply look wonderful, but it didn't help for Sims. The last Christmas Celebration pack install was added without a problem, then I went on with Pets. Content installs, "application will now ensure that your product is up to date" or whatever it says in English , ok, onwards... and up comes the Pets splash screen for about a glimpse of an eye. Then the same old story.
Guess that was the last graphic wise solution. So there's now only the BIOS left... crap new computers, crap new graphic cards. My old one ran so fine until it broke.
DavidC:
I had a similar problem for a while with my card, eventually I found out how to fix it. First I uninstalled my Graphics card driver and updated them, then updated the bios which I was pretty nervous about doing but it went fine. Abit make it easy though other motherboards might not be so straight forward and I don't know if it was necessary.
When its all set up go into ATI Catalyst Control Center and find the SmartGart settings. Set the AGP Speed to 4x and disable fast write. Now your computer should be alot more stable. I have only had one Bluescreen of death since I did this a month or 2 ago and I used to have constant crashes. I did keep my Graphic Card Drivers fairly up to date too so I think it has more to do with the SmartGart settings than anything else.
Sorry I don't have the link to where I found out how to fix this, but I'll add it later if I find it.
Rose Outlaw:
Got in touch with the service team and I'm eagerly waiting for what they'll say about BIOS update options.
David, I wish I knew that when I had my old computer with an AGP card.
The new one has PCI(e?... *too lazy to check*), so the speed is probably not an option... but fast write? That's not the write combining option found under Hardware Acceleration, is it? Disabling that seemed to help some Splinter Cell players as far as I recall, but I believe you're referring to an AGP thing. :)
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