I cannot solve a blue screen after I updated several components. It’s killin me. I updated the RAM, PSU, Video Card, MB/CPU and System HD and my system has sucked since. I have tried replacing every component, except the boot drive. I’ve deleted the partition and formatted. Been using XP pro but even tried to go back to 2000 pro but doesn’t work. Anyone better at troubleshooting this then me? I thought I was good but this one is wiping me out. It happens when I am doing something graphic such as Doom 3 or any other game or a video file so it seems it is video or sound related. Game locks up and goes to a blue screen with different codes depending on which hardware is in or it goes back to the desktop in “high gamma” mode. Sometimes I get the IRQ not less than or equal to which I understand means that a certain device needs to address another device which must be using an IRQ# which is less than or equal to itself. I checked the IRQ layout in but Windows XP does such weird crap with IRQ’s and since I don’t understand the hex codes I can only guess which two devices are quarreling over the IRQ. If anyone knows how to interpret the blue screen hex error codes I would be deeply indebted if you could help me solve this! I would even be willing to pay someone but I can’t find anyone who knows this deeper than I do, not that I am incredibly deep. They all just tell me the stupid obvious crap like take the card out or to disable something. I need someone with good knowledge.
My current specs:
Athlon 64 3400 1MB socket 754 version
ASUS K8V SE Deluxe
1 GB (2X512) Ballistix low latency RAM
EVGA GeForce 6800GT AGP (replaced with FX5600 Ultra to no avail)
WD Raptor 74GB (Main boot drive) Connected to onboard SATA controller. (perhaps this? I am suspicious and haven’t yet swapped this drive out. Any known issues with Raptor 74’s?)
2 80GB WD PATA, Mirror RAID using onboard PATA RAID controller. (disconnecting drives and disabling contoller in BIOS didn’t help)
Antec True Power 550W PSU (bought new enermax 425W but it did not help)
Audigy 2 sound card (removed and also enabled onboard sound and tried but didn’t help)
Funny thing is it was working fine until I put all “high end” components in it. Go fu__ing figure.