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| Thread ID: 78574 | 2007-04-20 15:01:00 | IRQ Error with XP pro | mattman360 (7084) | Press F1 |
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| 542697 | 2007-04-20 15:01:00 | I have had 4 different motherboards I have had an MSI 2 times an ASrock and my current ASUS board with two crossfire ATI X1950XTX video cards and a basic DVD drive and hard drive with 2.5 Gb of Ram and everytime I start to install some sort of operating system I get to the blue screen tht says IRQ Not less Than Equal or something close to that and if I dont get tha one I get another blue screen that says beginning memory dump and it just freezes everything I have is brand new and it was working for a little bit I added nothing and then the video started getting all jumpy like the screen would glitch so i said hey lets completely re-format my hard drive so i did and as it was installing I got that blue screen I spent alot of money on this computer and i have spent alot of time messing with it I am very close to just scrapping the parts.. please someone help me Ive spent more than enough money to get a good computer that doesnt even work. | mattman360 (7084) | ||
| 542698 | 2007-04-20 15:11:00 | Try out Memtest86 (http://www.memtest.org/). Running it for a while will allow you to see if you have faulty ram. If the screen was glitching then I would put it down to one of your gfx cards being faulty. Have you tried them separetly? |
trinsic (6945) | ||
| 542699 | 2007-04-20 15:19:00 | actually no I have not but it only did that in crossfire mode and Im not running crossfire when installing XP, but you think it might be something with the RAM? the motherboard supports DDR2 800 and the pc says its only DDR2 667 or something like that , and how exactly does memtest work is it a Linux based applet? because if i need to use a floppy thats a no can do i dont have one and my motherboard doesnt have a floppy slot | mattman360 (7084) | ||
| 542700 | 2007-04-20 15:29:00 | Join Date: Apr 2007 I have had different motherboards I have had an MSI 2 times an ASrock and my current ASUS board with two crossfire ATI X1950XTX video cards and a basic DVD drive and hard drive with 2.5 Gb of Ram and everytime I start to install some sort of operating system I get to the blue screen tht says IRQ Not less Than Equal or something close to that and if I dont get tha one I get another blue screen that says beginning memory dump and it just freezes everything I have is brand new and it was working for a little bit I added nothing and then the video started getting all jumpy like the screen would glitch so i said hey lets completely re-format my hard drive so i did and as it was installing I got that blue screen I spent alot of money on this computer and i have spent alot of time messing with it I am very close to just scrapping the parts.. please someone help me Ive spent more than enough money to get a good computer that doesnt even work. |
mattman360 (7084) | ||
| 542701 | 2007-04-20 19:29:00 | Its most probably a hardware prob, if it crashed, when u tried to reinstall/format XP. Can u run it with just 1 videocard?? It'll either be a videocard or ram/memory prob. If these are the only two things in the system. Besides the DVD. And the hdd. Which ASUS board is it? So, u have 2 1GB simms and 1 512 mb simm? If u have 2.5 GB of ram? If u r try taking the 512mb simm out, and try to reinstall XP again. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 542702 | 2007-04-20 19:43:00 | Can a mod merge this post ( . pcworld . co . nz/showthread . php?t=78574" target="_blank">pressf1 . pcworld . co . nz) With this post, as theyre related to the same prob Ta Well, you'll need a USB flash drive (and then somehow, make it bootable), as Memtest needs to boot off something . If u dont have a floppy . I think its DOS based . I take it u configured the BIOS before u tried to install XP? I would also try taking out the 512mb simms, if one is in it . Then try installing XP . If that doesnt work, take another simm out, and see if it'll install XP with 1 simm . If it crashes with 1 simm, replace it with 1 of the other 2 simms (swap them around) . If it doesnt crash with 1 simm, then you'll know one of the other 2 are faulty . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 542703 | 2007-04-20 19:47:00 | Could a mod merge this with this (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) Ta |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 542704 | 2007-04-20 19:47:00 | you run memtest off a bootable cd rom google recovery cd there is one out there that has memtest on it |
beama (111) | ||
| 542705 | 2007-04-20 20:28:00 | Ultimate boot CD has it, run it for atleast 12 hours, it is highly unlikely that it is a mobo issue since it has happened with 4 different ones... I am guessing RAM... and it is best and can avoid RAM issues if you keep everything similar... ie even, same brand and model, size etc | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
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