System Crashes and BSoD Report(s)

P.S. i don't know why that post is green..... *shrug*

Surely a stupid question, but have you a way to shutdown one display?

And I supposed you have searched on internet all link associated with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL like the one on the msdn site http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/DevTest_g/hh/DevTest_g/t04_bugs_00_92ed1f1a-43b9-453a-af0c-06260d719a7d.xml.asp

The URL (without the protocol) is msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/DevTest_g/hh/DevTest_g/t04_bugs_00_92ed1f1a-43b9-453a-af0c-06260d719a7d.xml.asp

i've tried running only on my primary display, no effect. and yess i've looked up the IRQL statement, but it hardly does me any good. Besides, GC2 is the only software that causes the problem, and i run tons of software, games included, some just as new and newer than GC2, and certainly more resource intensive, and they all run without problems. Nothing has ever given me Crashes (BSoD) like GC2 has. (not a complaint, keep in mind i love the game).

FWIW
NO _application_ should be able to cause a BSOD misbehaving apps should be trapped by the OS.

During the last year or so I have had sporadic BSODs now and then without any apparent pattern in apps/games some more then others. Sometimes several times a day and sometimes just one or two during a week.

I tested everything, different gfx drivers memtests and a bunch of other things but finally put it down to bad drivers.

BUT earlier this year they became more frequent and I finally got them nailed down to bad memory and after getting some new memory sticks I have had NO BSODs at all.

Try memtest86 to rule out bad memory, you can find it here:
http://www.memtest86.com/

There should be NO errors at all in the test.

good luck

ah yes, i left that out, already did a memory test, it's all fine. And i meant what i said when i said that GC2 is the ONLY, absolutely ONLY, 100% the ONLY thing the crashes my computer.

Some things you could check;

> the page file is corrupt; make a new one (if you don't know how just ask)
> unplug and check any / all USB cables / devices
> make sure you have no conflicting drivers (like the Audigy, there are third party drivers so you might have tried them once)
> check for conflicting software like CD/DVD burning software.

Some info for stardock perhaps here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q265879/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314492/EN-US/?

PS the "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" usually provides a driver in the BSOD message, if you could provide that it would be most usefull

You will need to follow the instruction at this MS TechNet page and run the Kernel debugger to find out what driver is causing the 0xC2 BSOD.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314492/EN-US/

Also, looking at your debug log, it shows you have a 4GB page fille - yet you say you have 6 4BG page files on 6 drives? For XP, that is a wee bit of overkill. One 4gb page file should be more than enough. Perhaps the system is getting confused as to which paging file segment it is using since thay are in so many different physical locations - try eliminating all but one, make sure you physically delete the others and then defrag the drives they are on; do a full checkdsk to find any physical drive errors.

Also, if you have access to it, create a clean Virtual XP workstation and try to run the game from there to see if it still crashes. No Firewall (disabling it will not necessarily turn it off - you must also stop it's services too; to make sure it's influence is completely gone I recommend an uninstall if it is a 3rd party one. Same with AV or any anti-spyware stuff. Just disabling them may not stop all the processes they run (you cannot even see all of them sometiimes - a lot are hidden in somet cases.)

Display Info Display device 1: Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1 Card Name: ATI FireGL V7100 Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc. Chip Type: ATI FireGL V7100 (0x5550) DAC Type: Internal DAC(400MHz) Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5550&SUBSYS_0B321002&REV_80 Display Memory: 256.0 MB Current Display Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (70Hz) Monitor Name: SyncMaster 910V/910M/913V/914V/915V Monitor Max Resolution: 1280,1024 Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6561 Driver Date: 9/9/2005 19:46:34 DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes Display device 2: Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY2 Card Name: ATI FireGL V7100 Secondary Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc. Chip Type: ATI FireGL V7100 (0x5550) DAC Type: Internal DAC(400MHz) Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5570&SUBSYS_0B331002&REV_80 Display Memory: 256.0 MB Current Display Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz) Monitor Name: SyncMaster 910V/910M/913V/914V/915V Monitor Max Resolution: 1280,1024 Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6561 Driver Date: 9/9/2005 19:46:34 DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes

Surely unrelated, but you have 2 displays with different refresh rate. Have you tried to keep only one display?