Try taking all extra cards out and leave video and nic and see if the problem goes away if it don't try moving the nic to another slot.

NICs very rarely go bad (only seen one bad in 12 yrs and I've seen a bunch and this one was from a lightning strike), try instead of spending your hard earned money on another piece of equipment and hoping it will fix the problem, do some BASIC trouble shooting. When you see this error 'DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL' there is a hint here, you have a IRQ problem hence computer crashes and reboots. Lets take a trip down A+ basics.IRQ,IRQ,IRQ. Or maybe it will end up ME here I come again! J TIA. All I can hope for now is for some kind soul to see this post on one of the forums I will post it to and maybe point me in the right direction. I’ve looked at a few of the knowledge bases on Microsoft and other places and find that though this error seems ‘popular’ there is no one definitive fix. I tried the games using a regular dial up connection with the internal 56k modem and the game loaded fine and played fine so I know the problem lies somewhere in this NIC card. The computer goes into full system reboot. I see the game screen start to appear and the ** POOF ** gone.

I go through all the steps and it loads the game fine until the very last moment. The error also reports that the machine is BEGINNING DUMP OF PHYSICAL MEMORY.Īnother problem with the card I have found came when I tried to play Video poker through the Pogo games on. The error reports as happening in the file NDIS.SYS. Then, out of nowhere it seems that the card dies out on me with an error as follows: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. The card actually works fine for periods of time. The driver for the card (Downloaded right from Linksys) is the apparent latest one available. The card registers as active and as working properly with no conflicts. The card is a Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter(LNE100TX v4) and on the surface all seems fine. Maybe someone can help save me from that drastic and gut wrenching ( J ) move. Seeing what was spent on 2K this really wouldn’t be what I want to do. I’ve encountered a big problem with the card that may actually force me to revert back to ME. All is not fine however, somewhere in my NIC card. The configurations of both hardware and software all look normal and properly set. The problems I have encountered have been the normal learning curve type of things. To further insure (or so I thought) that I would have minimal problems, I made sure that all the hardware in this Gateway Essential 933 was on the HCL and that it would work with the proper installation of needed drivers.įor the most part I’ve done okay. I specifically waited until I bought a new PC to even truly think about buying Win2000. I knew when I bought Win 2000 Pro that it was possible I would run into some problems and incidents that I didn’t have in WinME.

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