I seem to be having graphics card trouble, though I could be wrong. When I try to play games, after about 30-45 minutes, sometimes sooner, the game crashes, sometimes with an error message, sometimes not, and sometimes, the whole computer will crash, and give a stop error that says DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. This happens with any game I play, short of solitaire and other minimal resource using games. Nothing in particular seems to trigger it, and sometimes it happens even when I'm not running any games. I have a feeling that it's my graphics card, but I'm not sure what would be wrong with it, and whether or not I could fix it. So far, I've only tried two things. I turned off video BIOS shadowing (before I turned it off, the errors came up much more often) and updating the drivers for my video. So, turning off BIOS shadowing helped, but didn't fix the problem. Before this began happening, I had a problem with the computer crashing for no particular reason and giving an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL stop error, (No DRIVER added on to the front) but I fixed this by resetting all my BIOS settings to the fail-safe defaults and reinstalling XP. Any help is greatly appreciated! Computer info: AMD 1.13 ghz processor 256 mb ram ATI Radeon VE Biostar M7VKD mainboard

help mary WHEN I SING IN I HEAR MY CPU + ITS LOND. I HAVE WINDOW XP PLEASE HELP.

lond sing in to net work mary i,m fit to be tide i,m trying everything well the window xp fix it?? if i new were to look. please help mary

You could look at the system error logs to see if there is any more info to help diagnose the problem (Control Panel--Administrative Tools--Event Viewer). That's one of those general errors that is hard to pinpoint without additional clues.

I've got a new computer - and had XP Pro installed - the very same error message keeps popping up and restarts - checks files and space - takes up time only to do the same again. All my stuff is compatible. All I had changed was the Cdrom into DVDrom and I know that's not the problem. Like you the uncertainty of when this Win XP Pro is about toi reboot any minute - in other words it's unpredictable. Sometimes it works for three or four hours a session -no problems then other times 2 mins, maybe three and constant reboots. Horrifying isn't it?

Oh, I don't play any games either. Don't think it's anything to do with games at all, not heat, not software, hardware - maybe some updates...not even drivers.

Make sure DirectCD is not installed onto your computer if so, uninstall it and see if that helps. If that doesn't work, make sure there is no irq conflicts. Maybe change all you pci cards into a different slot. If none of that works your mobo might be fried.