I read that IRQL stop errors (blue screen of death ensuing) are caused by software glitches most commonly associated with driver problems. I have an amd athlon xp 3200+ with an asrock 939 sata2 mb, radeon 9800xt, sb live sound card, 1 ghz (2×512) of 3200 ram (high ecc buffer- ran memtest everything checked out fine), and windows XP SP2 fully updated. I used to play World of Warcraft before my computer had problems. About a month ago, the power supply burnt out, luckily the rest of my system was unharmed (or so I think), but now I can’t play WoW because of several interface folder erros popping up every time I try to run the program, unless I delete these interface folders each and every time.
I also notice, apart from random IRQL messages that my video card generally is overheating now (which I think I might have cured with installing a new fan and putting extra cooling sealant down on the gpu, but it still gives me black screens and instability when playing or sometimes just when loading certain items outside of any game. Of course it occurs much more frequently in-game than out. I have tried installing the latest Direct-x version (required by most games I play), as well as the ati radeon 9800xt drivers and then uninstalling them all and installing the omega drivers, which most other people said worked, but I’m still getting the error. I also uninstalled the ati tools which some people said were giving them errors, and I disabled fast write and write combining in bios/video card troubleshooting settings. The disabling of write combining helped, as well as the removal of ati tools, but still getting the IRQL errors on occasion. If anyone knows of a suggestion to help me, or perhaps better drivers for whatever I have now, let me know. I’m going to get my system diagnosed for 40 bucks at a computer store tomorrow, maybe that’ll shed some light on the problem, but probably not. Most likely I just need a new video card, but I don’t know for sure yet. Lastly, the blue screen error never occurs in-game now, and the screen turning black and the picture being messed up on the monitor, as well as the computer freezing (gpu of vid card overheating) only occurs in WoW or other games. Just wanted to specify that as well.
