Hey all, trying to get my on-board

[Hooner]

Hey all, trying to get my on-board video up n running so I can donate my AGP card to a more needy person.
All is fine installing drivers, all is fine on the desktop, but as soon as I try to start a game Xp blue-screens on me with the message:

NO_MORE_STACK_IRP_LOCATIONS

I've done some Googling and found one chap that suggests this.............

"try increasing this value:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters\IRPStackSize

(maybe another "IRPStackSize" elswhere... search for it and add to that also)

i had decimal 11 and changed it to decimal 16

no more BSOD for me"

I can find no such value, not only that, I cannot find ANY IRP stack size references.........

Any ideas? I really need to get this sorted.

UPDATE:

I've since created a new IRPStackSize value and set it at decimal 15, but it seems to have no effect. But since then the BSODs have not mentioned the IRPStackSize error, but they're still BSODs in exactly the same places.

The two error messages that stand out in Event Viewer are:

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7001
Date: 24/01/2004
Time: 12:21:50
User: N/A
Computer: MONKEY1
Description:
The Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) / Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service depends on the Network Location Awareness (NLA) service which failed to start because of the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
***********************************************************

And.........

***********************************************************
Event Type: Error
Event Source: nvidesm
Event Category: None
Event ID: 9
Date: 24/01/2004
Time: 12:20:23
User: N/A
Computer: MONKEY1
Description:
The device, \Device\Scsi\nvidesm1, did not respond within the timeout period.
***********************************************************

SCSI device? I don't have any........ do I? certainly no SCSI HDDs anyway.

The board is a little known Leadtek WinFast K7NCR18GM, the integrated GPU is a GeForce 4 (cough) MX440 running alongside the n-Force 2 chipset of course. Plenty of memory, 512 PC2700 with 64 being shared.

Settings in Awardbios 6.0 are all correct, "Detect VGA" is set to PCI.

No jumpers on the board need changing, or even relate to on-board video.

I'm stumped guys, any ideas?

Many thanks if you took the time to read this!

 

[Hooner]

Ah well, after a couple more hours fiddling I gave up and reinstalled my AGP card.

Corruption was what I saw, and a fair bit of it, even at POST there were little white lines where there shouldn't have been, which to me says it's definitely a h/ware fault.

I'd appreciate your thoughts folks, thanks again.

 

[1stITMAN]

Have you updated drivers and updated direct x.

I would uninstall the agp from device manager 1st then install the onboard one.


Zaheer Ahmed Iqbal
I.T Systems Support Engineer
Bsc. (Hons).

 

[Hooner]

Thanks for your thoughts, both are fully up 2 date.

 

[paparazi]

We sell the board and it is very reliable indeed
To date we havn't had one RMA, Leadtek are a quality company producing quality graphics and motherboards.
Something obviosly got screwed up on the install.
I would start again if you can.
Onboard MX440 isn't quite up to seperate AGP card but quite adequate for light gaming (not cutting edge stuff tho)
Sellect onboard AGP in bios
Martin

Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[Hooner]

But if there's corruption at the POST screen, that eliminates all possibility of it being drivers or OS doesn't it? so it has to be hardware yeah?

 

[Hooner]

Oh, I agree that it is a top quality board for the price (picked mine up for £50), packed with features and OC'ing tweaks, and according to benchmarks, one of the fastest socket A boards you can buy.