Weird prob...

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Mathieu Paquette

Hi,

If anyone can answer this one, I'd be REALLY glad.

I have built a system for my dad. Asus A7V8X-X, AMD Athlon XP 1700+, 256
megs of RAM.

Everything runs perfectly fine, except for when I try to play an audio CD.
The computer gives me a bluescreen with the following info :

*** STOP : 0x000000D1 (0xFCF4FC44,0X000000FF, 0x00000000, 0xFCF4FC44
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

The drive I try to play the CD in is a Asus CD-Writer (48/24/52). I haven't
plugged the analog wire to the soundcard. I use the onboard soundcard.

I updated the Soundmax driver from www.asus.com and installed the 4in1
driver.

What else could it be ??

I have a "suspect"... Nero ? I tried 2-3 times to play a CD before
installing Nero, and everything was fine, but I haven't extensively tested.
Is it possible that Nero be the culprit ?

I turn to this group before I format and reinstall because I don't want to
go through the pain of updating everything again... :-P If anyone can answer
me... I've tried googling for this error message but couldn't find anything
useful.

Thanks a bunch.

Mathieu
 
And now I updated to the new 1005 BIOS (I had 1003). The Windows updater for
the BIOS is REALLY cool. :-)

Still same problem. Even though I uninstalled Nero and ran Regclean (but
there can still be junk from it)...

But I have a new error message...

*** STOP: 0x000000050 (0xFCF8FC3F,0x00000000, 0x804A747E,0x00000000)
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

Still when I listen to a CD.

I forgot to say... There's a old 10X CD-Rom in the machine. Could it be the
source if it's defective or something ? It's working and all, but maybe
there's something wrong with having such an old CD-Rom drive in a recent
machine ?

Thanks.

Mathieu
 
Mathieu,

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL tends to indicate either device driver or
device.

When this error comes up you normally can see the name of the device driver.
If it is the cdrom it will be cdrom.sys I think, along with imapi.sys (for
CD burning if it is a rewriter / writer) and redbook.sys.

I doubt the problem would be with any of these drivers - under normal
circumstances - as they are for standard atapi cd rom drives (IE any that
don't come with their own drivers).

So, could be cable, IDE controller, CD Rom drive, m/b. Does the old CD Rom
work with music? this would rule out the IDE Controller, cable & m/b if it
were on the same cable.

Have you checked your sound card and drivers? Are they most recent?
Try running sigverif.exe to show info about installed driver files - look
for drivers that are not signed and / or are not WHQL.

Look for updates for all drivers that appear in sigverif output...

Does it happen with all CD's? A while back flawed CD's could cause horrid
problems...

HTH
- Tim
 
Could be a flaky RAM chip. Try running memtest86 - www.memtest86.com
and see if it detects a problem.

If you have 2 ram sticks, try removing one, then the other. Also try
switching memory slots to rule out the slot.

My gut tells me this BS is caused by RAM.
 
Even though it occurs ONLY when I play a music CD??? Can it still be
memory ?

I have only 1 memory stick... I could try to put it in my brother's
computer (since mine is a pityful Celeron 1ghz eheh with SDRAM) and see
what happens.

I'll also try to put the 2 CD-Roms on different IDE controllers and see if
one causes problem on one and the other on the other IDE controller
doesn't.

Thanks.

Mathieu
 
Well... The board is on factory setting. No O/C or anything... My dad
bought this machine because his Pentium 75 busted, or else he would still
have it and be happy with it... !

The motehrboard drivers ? Where can I find those ? I downloaded the 4in1
and the Soundmax driver from www.asus.com... is that it ?

The machine was freshly reinstalled last night, no codec or anything
installed, just plain ol' Win2k with Sp4 (and previously it was running
Sp3 and still same problem). I don't think it can be that. And last time I
didn't install the 4in1 or the most recent Soundmax drivers and it had the
same prob. I'll check for the RAM tonight... Could be it.

What I find VERY weird is that it occurs only when reading an audio CD.
But again, my dad isn't the most computer-intensive person I've met... ;-P

Thanks... I'm open to ALL ideas at this point. :)

Mathieu
 
Mathieu said:
Well... The board is on factory setting. No O/C or anything... My dad
bought this machine because his Pentium 75 busted, or else he would still
have it and be happy with it... !

The motehrboard drivers ? Where can I find those ? I downloaded the 4in1
and the Soundmax driver from www.asus.com... is that it ?

The machine was freshly reinstalled last night, no codec or anything
installed, just plain ol' Win2k with Sp4 (and previously it was running
Sp3 and still same problem). I don't think it can be that. And last time I
didn't install the 4in1 or the most recent Soundmax drivers and it had the
same prob. I'll check for the RAM tonight... Could be it.

What I find VERY weird is that it occurs only when reading an audio CD.
But again, my dad isn't the most computer-intensive person I've met... ;-P

Thanks... I'm open to ALL ideas at this point. :)

Mathieu
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What are the chances it has to do with DAE (digital audio extraction)
trying to take place, rather than analog. If the old drive doesn't
support DAE and the Win2K control panel is set to select it, maybe that
is where it is tripping up.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&[email protected]

Just a guess,
Paul
 
I finally found the problem. It was the soundcard. Now, my dad told me to
get my lazy ass to the store and get a new soundcard... ;-) So problem
solved. I dunno if it's a driver issue with Win2k or if the onboard sound
card itself is damaged, but now it works, so I call it quits. :-)

Thanks to all for your help.

Mathieu
 
Ahahahaha. Hi Dan. :-)

Not bad, not bad. How's it working from our favorite ISP? :-)

Mathieu
 
Everything's messed up... Network is so-so (patched with duct tape and
popsicle sticks), most of our tools are often either down or not working
properly, so on...

And to top it all... They've hired ex-scabs... & I'm not allowed to bring a
gun to work :(





Mathieu Paquette said:
Ahahahaha. Hi Dan. :-)

Not bad, not bad. How's it working from our favorite ISP? :-)

Mathieu

God said:
Oh bin calisse...

I never thought I'd see you here :)

How's it going man?

(Dan from VL)

:)


Mathieu Paquette said:
I finally found the problem. It was the soundcard. Now, my dad told me to
get my lazy ass to the store and get a new soundcard... ;-) So problem
solved. I dunno if it's a driver issue with Win2k or if the onboard sound
card itself is damaged, but now it works, so I call it quits. :-)

Thanks to all for your help.

Mathieu
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Ahahaha... Just as before. :P

Sleeep time. Gotta go work for the clowns tomorrow. :-))

Mathieu

God said:
Everything's messed up... Network is so-so (patched with duct tape and
popsicle sticks), most of our tools are often either down or not working
properly, so on...

And to top it all... They've hired ex-scabs... & I'm not allowed to bring a
gun to work :(





Mathieu Paquette said:
Ahahahaha. Hi Dan. :-)

Not bad, not bad. How's it working from our favorite ISP? :-)

Mathieu

God said:
Oh bin calisse...

I never thought I'd see you here :)

How's it going man?

(Dan from VL)

:)


I finally found the problem. It was the soundcard. Now, my dad told
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