Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 1:09 pm
First off, I will give the specs on my machine:
Intel 845PEBT2 mobo
P4 2.4 533 bus
1 gig Samsung DDR 333
Radeon 7500 display adapter
Pulsar 2
WD 20 gig, IBM 80 gig hard discs
Sony CDRW + Floppy
Cubase SX + SFP 3.1c
Win XP Pro
By most accounts, the computer is running flawlessly. However, when I reboot, I am getting the
IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
blue screen. This is a fresh install of XP (in standard PC HAL mode). The Pulsar card is in PCI slot 3, which I forced in the bios to use IRQ 5. I then disabled the USB controller that used that IRQ so the card would have it's own interrupt. I have disabled my parallel port, serial ports, and onboard Lan and Audio in the bios as well. This is a stand-alone machine created solely for audio. Every service that isn't absolutely necessary has been disabled through services.msc. The registry has been configured in such a fashion that all operations are kept in memory (although I have not yet switched to a static swap file for testing purposes). This blue screen hasn't affected my functionality at all, in fact so far it runs exceptionally well. I haven't gotten too far into the production because I just built the machine last week. However I would like to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible before it becomes a problem in the future.
Has anyone else experienced this? Should I leave the PCI slot 3 IRQ setting to auto instead of forcing it to use IRQ 5? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
Intel 845PEBT2 mobo
P4 2.4 533 bus
1 gig Samsung DDR 333
Radeon 7500 display adapter
Pulsar 2
WD 20 gig, IBM 80 gig hard discs
Sony CDRW + Floppy
Cubase SX + SFP 3.1c
Win XP Pro
By most accounts, the computer is running flawlessly. However, when I reboot, I am getting the
IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
blue screen. This is a fresh install of XP (in standard PC HAL mode). The Pulsar card is in PCI slot 3, which I forced in the bios to use IRQ 5. I then disabled the USB controller that used that IRQ so the card would have it's own interrupt. I have disabled my parallel port, serial ports, and onboard Lan and Audio in the bios as well. This is a stand-alone machine created solely for audio. Every service that isn't absolutely necessary has been disabled through services.msc. The registry has been configured in such a fashion that all operations are kept in memory (although I have not yet switched to a static swap file for testing purposes). This blue screen hasn't affected my functionality at all, in fact so far it runs exceptionally well. I haven't gotten too far into the production because I just built the machine last week. However I would like to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible before it becomes a problem in the future.
Has anyone else experienced this? Should I leave the PCI slot 3 IRQ setting to auto instead of forcing it to use IRQ 5? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...