BSOD Question, identify error please

[avatar8481]

I've recently gotten the following BSOD in a number of different contexts, but always when running a 3d program.

*** Stop: 0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Beginning dump of physical memory.


Now other times that I've gotten this screen the number sequences have been different, but I my recollection was that they specify the memory location where the error took place, so I don't make anything of that difference. My question is, I know sort of what an IRQ is, something about interrupt priority or something, but I certainly don't know how to adjust them, or even to determine what's wrong with them. For the record my system is an Athlon 1400, MSI k Master-S mb, 512 mb ram, Gladiac 920(geforce3), Deskstar 75gb. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've been getting this error quite a bit.

 

[dxd]

This may not help much, but here is a very simplistic explanation of the error from MS:

Bug Check 0xD1: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
The DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL bug check has value 0x000000D1. This signifies that the system attempted to access pageable memory at a process IRQL that was too high.

Parameters
The following parameters are displayed on the blue screen.

Parameter Description
1 Memory referenced
2 IRQL at time of reference
3 zero: Read
one: Write
4 Address that referenced memory

Comments
This bug check is usually caused by drivers that have used improper addresses.

Not much there, huh? All I gather from it is it seems to be driver related in which case I would begin looking at the video drivers and possibly any tweaking you may have done. Try newer drivers if they are out there.

You may want to take a look at this site/forum to see if anyone else has had similar problems..

http://bbs.pcstats.com/tweak3d/

Doug
dxd_2000@yahoo.com