Win XP BSOD MAY-DAY

[jforbis]

I continue to receive a BSOD as a result of several different error messages. Most common is an IRQL_NOT_EQUAL..etc

I am being advised that I have some device driver out of wack. I have reinstalled on several occasions. The problem looked to be isolated to the nvidia OEM video driver.

Last night I stumbled upon some Windows XP updates that were particular for some of the hardware on my machine. After switching from the nvidia to an ATI card, Update discovered that there was an ATI and NEC LCD1712 (my monitor) update available. I was able to download and install these without the machine crashing. It WOULD NOT install the NEC lcd1712 driver. As a matter of fact the machine will only detect a Plug and Play monitor and will and says that there was trouble installing any drivers.

Any ideas or experience with this issue.

 

[Marcs41]

you don't really need monitor drivers you know

Marc
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[gbaughma]

When I have run into the IRQL_NOT_EQUAL thing, I resolved it with the following:

My motherboard needed a 4-in-1 driver, the IRQ thing was coming from my sound card, and had to do with the assignment of an IRQ to my sound card. The 4-in-1 fixed that.

Also, you may try turning off the "Assign IRQ to video" bit in your BIOS and see if that helps.



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[jforbis]

Ok...I'm hip to the idea that I don't need any drivers for my lcd...when I got the machine XP Pro seemed to have no problems with the default plug and play configuration for the monitor.

Now for the 4-1...where do I go, and what do I do?

I'm confident that there are settings in the BIOS that need to be configured. I may have made some changes when re-installing (inadvertantly). The machine was running great when shipped from Dell. Naturally, I had to do a re-install due to spyware and what not. I've learned my lesson!