Re: OT: Device Driver Errors
 

If you have a network card in your machine, look at updating its driver; netcards are notorious for causing random reboots.

[ March 30, 2004, 00:45: Message edited by: DarkHorse ]

Re: OT: Device Driver Errors
 

I'd already disabled the automatic restart - but that system event viewer was kind of interesting. But I've been unable to correlate the error reports with any of the devices.

I ran a scan and identified 9 digitally unsigned drivers and researched each one. 1 belongs to the motherboard, 2 to c-dilla (software protection copyright stuff, but not present from the beginning), 1 from the dvd, 1 for safedisc launcher (another copy protection thing), 2 from my Norton a/v, and 1 from my soundcard.

I'm going to see if I can find some updated signed drivers...I know already for some of them I won't be able to though.

Re: OT: Device Driver Errors
 

I believe the network card and the sound card are both integrated with the motherboard in this case...

...research I've done has shown oddities between ATI graphic cards and my particular motherboard but mostly reported in conjuction with Radeon 9700...

Anyways, I went to download some updated drivers, but the ASUS site lists a bunch of different ones for different components, i.e., ide, sound, network, and so on.

I downloaded the one for sound (although I suspect is more outdated than the one I grab previously from the actual chipset manufacturer of the sound card) and one for the network card. I need to review which files it contains just be to be sure it is actually a more update driver...actually right now I think default WinXP drivers are being used...?

Re: OT: Device Driver Errors
 

Make sure to install the latest IDE & AGP drivers. I've found the early releases of the SIS IDE drivers made the system run a little odd.
I have had issues w/ older ATI card under 98 because the driver wouldn't assign an IRQ and the video card & the sound card would get on the same one an make the system unstable. I haven't noticed that to be the case under XP. Just to be safe, go into you BIOS Setup & assign PCI slot 1 to, well the usual setting was IRQ 11, and see what happens. XP usually reassigns it but, hey, give it a try.

Re: OT: Device Driver Errors
 

Oops. My bad.

The sound card is on 18, the video card on 16.

[ March 30, 2004, 02:44: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

Re: OT: Device Driver Errors
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">XP has added the 16 and up IRQs. try reassigning them through the BIOS Set-up at start-up. Check to see whats open 15 & below. Try maybe 11 for the AGP / PCI Slot one. You could also assign the PCI Slot w/ the sound card, maybe to 7, & see what happens. The more you discribe it, it sounds like a hardware conflict, through I thought XP was supposed to stop such things.

Re: OT: Device Driver Errors
 

Just a thought - I had problems similar to the one described and I ended up solving it by turning off all power conservation stuff (BIOS, OS, etc.). That did take care of it for me....

Re: OT: Device Driver Errors
 

Another update:

The BSOD Messages usually say something about "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL".

"PAGE_FAULT_IN_A_NONPAGED_AREA" is another one I've seen.

A website I found indicated the first one is likely due to bad drivers or incompatible hardware/software. I'm leaning towards bad drivers.

The second can be an indication of bad memory or defective hardware.

[ April 05, 2004, 19:01: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]