Windows XP problem

[talonracer]

Ok all you techheads out there let me know if you can help, you kinda have to know alot about Windows XP. Basically I can't play games, it goes for awhile then I get a memory dump then a restart. The reason is usually "IRQ less than equal" or some shit. I'm running a 1.2 gig Athlon on an Abit KT7A motherboard with 256 megs RAM. Its not my video card I just bought a new one and same problem. About to go back to 2000 here. Can anyone help??

 

[HappyScrappy]

and IRQ is the address to which a certain hardware device is mapped to for the os to recognize - I think in memory technically.
there are usually numbers that coincide with certain hardware devices.
windows will try to help you when installing things and set it up for you - the downside is sometimes it overlays the IRQs or worse yet, if something has a memory fuckup somewhere, it can screw up all kinds of things, including the irq mappings.

the error you get is when two hardware devices are trying to be accessed with the same irq.

win xp crashes all the time for me, I hate it. the irq problem is not essentially a windows xp error - all OSes have IRQs, and there are frequently conflicts - so it is either winxp has some bugs in it (never - lol), or some of the software doesn't play well with it.

 

[Rotten]

I've had absolutely zero problems with XP lately, but I know alot of the older games just don't work with it. Which games are you trying to play? I had problems with Tribes 2 until I loaded the latest video drivers off the manufactuers web sites and it runs perfect now.

 

[Pimp C]

So far I am really pleased with XP Professional, I haven't played any games on it though. Did you recently upgrade from 2000 to XP? If so do you still have the same hardware that you had before? You may want to try to reinstall XP again.

 

[talonracer]

Well I got so frustrated with it last night I went back to 2000 Advanced Server and am happy............THEN a freind e-mailed me with the solution!!!! GRRRRRRR. Apparently you have to disable the ACPI and he sent me a web page that tells you how to do it.
Oh well I'll play with 2000 a while longer it really runs well for me