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From: Chopperdad on 9 Mar 2005 20:15
For the past month, every so often while playing "World of Warcraft" my son
gets a "Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Than" blue screen error. From looking at this
I get the impression this is not a driver issue, but an interrupt issue. It
talks about software and hardware stuff and does a memory stack dump. This
is the only game that does this, and from what he has been able to find
out, his experience is not unique. The operating system is XP SP2, it has
1.5 Gb of memory, the sound card is a Soundblaster Live and the video card
is a Radion 9800 128Mb

I've looked in BIOS and don't see anything that would relate to either a
sound card or video card problem, although that is what he has surmised from
discussions he has had on-line with other people who have experienced this
problem.

My question is this a driver issue of the video card or something else or a
software issue where there is an interrupt problem between pieces of
hardware connected in the system, and what can I do about it. It has no
impact on the game it seems.

Ron


From: Tom Scales on 9 Mar 2005 21:02

"Chopperdad" <scotty(a)bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:fbNXd.32564$%Y4.32099(a)bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> For the past month, every so often while playing "World of Warcraft" my
> son
> gets a "Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Than" blue screen error. From looking at
> this
> I get the impression this is not a driver issue, but an interrupt issue.
> It
> talks about software and hardware stuff and does a memory stack dump.
> This
> is the only game that does this, and from what he has been able to find
> out, his experience is not unique. The operating system is XP SP2, it has
> 1.5 Gb of memory, the sound card is a Soundblaster Live and the video card
> is a Radion 9800 128Mb
>
> I've looked in BIOS and don't see anything that would relate to either a
> sound card or video card problem, although that is what he has surmised
> from
> discussions he has had on-line with other people who have experienced this
> problem.
>
> My question is this a driver issue of the video card or something else or
> a
> software issue where there is an interrupt problem between pieces of
> hardware connected in the system, and what can I do about it. It has no
> impact on the game it seems.
>
> Ron
>
>

Sounds like the game itself has a problem.


From: HillBillyBuddhist on 9 Mar 2005 21:10
"Chopperdad" <scotty(a)bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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| For the past month, every so often while playing "World of Warcraft" my
son
| gets a "Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Than" blue screen error. From looking at
this
| I get the impression this is not a driver issue, but an interrupt issue.
It
| talks about software and hardware stuff and does a memory stack dump.
This
| is the only game that does this, and from what he has been able to find
| out, his experience is not unique. The operating system is XP SP2, it has
| 1.5 Gb of memory, the sound card is a Soundblaster Live and the video card
| is a Radion 9800 128Mb
|
| I've looked in BIOS and don't see anything that would relate to either a
| sound card or video card problem, although that is what he has surmised
from
| discussions he has had on-line with other people who have experienced this
| problem.
|
| My question is this a driver issue of the video card or something else or
a
| software issue where there is an interrupt problem between pieces of
| hardware connected in the system, and what can I do about it. It has no
| impact on the game it seems.
|
| Ron


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From: NoNoBadDog! on 9 Mar 2005 21:14
99% of the time this indicates a problem with the physical RAM sticks in the
computer. Perhaps you have inexpensive RAM that cannot handle the demands
of the game.


Bobby

"Chopperdad" <scotty(a)bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:fbNXd.32564$%Y4.32099(a)bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> For the past month, every so often while playing "World of Warcraft" my
> son
> gets a "Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Than" blue screen error. From looking at
> this
> I get the impression this is not a driver issue, but an interrupt issue.
> It
> talks about software and hardware stuff and does a memory stack dump.
> This
> is the only game that does this, and from what he has been able to find
> out, his experience is not unique. The operating system is XP SP2, it has
> 1.5 Gb of memory, the sound card is a Soundblaster Live and the video card
> is a Radion 9800 128Mb
>
> I've looked in BIOS and don't see anything that would relate to either a
> sound card or video card problem, although that is what he has surmised
> from
> discussions he has had on-line with other people who have experienced this
> problem.
>
> My question is this a driver issue of the video card or something else or
> a
> software issue where there is an interrupt problem between pieces of
> hardware connected in the system, and what can I do about it. It has no
> impact on the game it seems.
>
> Ron
>
>



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From: William P.N. on 9 Mar 2005 21:03
"Chopperdad" <scotty(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
>For the past month, every so often while playing "World of Warcraft" my son
>gets a "Driver_IRQL_Not_Less_Than" blue screen error.

What's the complete error message, and does it include any module
names?

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