Suspected Hardware Conflict

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Greggory

My computer crashes a lot (expicially wen I play Microsoft
Games) and I have all of the most up-to-date drivers (as
far as I know). When it crashes, it goes to the much-
hated blue screen and the past two times ts done it, I
wrote down the error. Both times they
said "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and the first time it
gave referance to "PortCls.sys" and the second time it
mentioned "ACPI.sys". If anyone has ANY suggestions that
would be awesome. Ive been treying to reslove this or a
VERY long time and I would like to have this finally
working. Thanks!
 
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My computer crashes a lot (expicially wen I play Microsoft
Games) and I have all of the most up-to-date drivers (as
far as I know). When it crashes, it goes to the much-
hated blue screen and the past two times ts done it, I
wrote down the error. Both times they
said "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and the first time it
gave referance to "PortCls.sys" and the second time it
mentioned "ACPI.sys". If anyone has ANY suggestions that
would be awesome. Ive been treying to reslove this or a
VERY long time and I would like to have this finally
working. Thanks!
.
Hi,
This is usually caused by a video driver. If you have an
nvidia card, especially an mx200 then the video driver is
too new. I know that sounds wrong but the newer nvida
drivers aren't very good for those cards. You will have to
remove the driver you have and then remove the card.
Reinstall it and when you boot up it will say pci video
card. Accept that and when it is installed reboot. It will
then discover the correct plug and play name. Give it the
older driver from your cd. Then dont go any newer then the
28 series.
Luck
 
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