Guys, I am shooting in the dark here and I certainly could use advice from people who are far more knowlegeable than I am about sound cards. Since I built my rig 4 months ago I periodically get the infamous STOP Error DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_EQUAL. Through my research the best I have come up with is that it is a hardware issue. 1. I've read that the earlier Logitech MX mice - I have a MX310 - drivers and a particular kernel in Windows XP conflict. I downloaded the latest driver from Logitech 3 months ago so that should have taken care of any conflicts if it was the culprit. However, I experienced another system crash a few days ago. 2. My question is could it be my sound card? M-Audio no longer supports this card with drivers. The latest one is two years old. Now a lot of people like this card and still use it and have no issues whatsoever, but I know of at least one person who also has issues and believes that M-Audio's drivers conflict with nForce4 chipsets. I have no way of verifying this. He too experiences the same Stop Error and the only thing our PCs have in common is this card. System Specs: EPoX 9NPA+Ultra Athlon 64 3200+ venice 2 gigs of Crucial ballistix 3200 RAM X800 GTO video card with the very latest driver (2) DVD Lite On Drives Seagate SATA harddrive Windows XP Professional with SP2 I appreciate any help you can give. I'm at a loss. Thanks.
Update: Another person on Overclocker's forum who had the same issues as me with the Revolution 5.1 suggested that I look into my IRQ numbers because his Revolution 5.1 was interfering with another PCI card due to the sharing of the same IRQ. Lo and behold BOTH my video card AND my sound card list IRQ 18. I have a feeling this is my cause for the BSOD. Anyone concur this can cause BSODs? The only thing that has me stumped at this time is that if I had a problem of this nature in the past the Device Manager would show there was an issue with a yellow exclamation but noe were present. And I checked 3 times to see if both were reading IRQ 18 and they were.
pull the audio card out of computer, go into windows, do a shutdown, put card back in & see what happens in windows if still conflicting or not. done that a few times to resolve conflicts
